Flag of Burkina Faso
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · green.
Current flag
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Burkina Faso
Flag facts
Flag design
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · green.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Star – Centre
- Colours
- Red, green, and yellow
A gold star between Burkina Faso’s red and green fields
Burkina Faso’s flag has a red upper band and a green lower band, crossed at the centre by a yellow five-pointed star. The star sits on the boundary between the two fields rather than wholly inside either one.
The presidency presents the flag as a state emblem associated with the country’s revolutionary history. The present design dates from 1984, when the country adopted the name Burkina Faso. The flag’s formal description establishes its colours and central star; interpretations of each colour vary across sources.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Burkina Faso
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- BF
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- BFA
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 854
- Top-level domain
- .bf
- Area
- 274,200 km²
- Population
- 24,074,580 (2025)
- Currency
- XOF
- Calling code
- +226
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Burkina Faso (1896–)
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.
