Flag of Bulgaria
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
Current flag
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Bulgaria
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 3:5 height: width
Flag design
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- White, green, and red
Sources
- Proportion: Council of Ministers of Bulgaria – National Flag
White, green and red on Bulgaria’s flag
Bulgaria’s flag has three equal horizontal bands: white above green above red. The government describes it as a symbol of an independent and sovereign state.
Common interpretations connect white with peace, green with the country’s natural landscape and agriculture, and red with courage and the struggle for independence. These readings are useful context, but the official description does not turn every colour into a single fixed definition.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Bulgaria
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Sofia
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- BG
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- BGR
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 100
- Top-level domain
- .bg
- Area
- 110,910 km²
- Population
- 6,433,302 (2025)
- Currency
- BGN
- Calling code
- +359
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Bulgaria (1844–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
