Flag of Burundi
Its colour palette includes red, green, and white.
Current flag
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Burundi
Flag facts
Flag design
- Layout
- Cross
- Cross type
- Saltire
- Symbols
- Star – Centre
- Shapes
- Disc – Centre
- Colours
- Red, green, and white
Three stars inside Burundi’s white cross
Burundi’s flag has a white diagonal cross separating red upper and lower fields from green side fields. A white disc at the centre contains three red stars outlined in green, giving the design a precise four-part geometry.
Official descriptions connect the flag’s colours with national history and values. The three stars are commonly associated with the national motto’s ideas of unity, work and progress; the stars and cross, rather than the bands alone, make this flag distinctive.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Burundi
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Bujumbura
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- BI
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- BDI
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 108
- Top-level domain
- .bi
- Area
- 27,830 km²
- Population
- 14,390,003 (2025)
- Currency
- BIF
- Calling code
- +257
Historical flags: Burundi (1885–)
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.
