Flag of Barbados
Three equal-width vertical bands.
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Barbados
Flag facts
Flag design
Three equal-width vertical bands.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Blue, yellow, and black
The broken trident on Barbados’s flag
Barbados’s flag has vertical ultramarine, gold and ultramarine bands with a black broken trident at the centre. The missing shaft is deliberate: the emblem is not an ordinary three-pronged trident with its handle hidden.
The broken shaft represents the end of colonial rule and the country’s move to independence in 1966. The blue bands are commonly linked with sea and sky, and gold with the beaches. Grantley W. Prescod’s design was adopted on Independence Day, 30 November 1966.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Barbados
- Continent
- North and Central America
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- BB
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- BRB
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 052
- Top-level domain
- .bb
- Area
- 431 km²
- Population
- 282,623 (2025)
- Currency
- BBD
- Calling code
- ++1-246
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Historical flags: Barbados (1632–)
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