What shade of blue does Chile's flag law name?
The 1912 law names the blue as azul turquí. It gives no modern numerical colour code.
Flag of Chile
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: white · red.
Current flag
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Chile
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: white · red.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Star – Canton
- Colours
- Blue, white, and red
Sources
The law fixes the star's size and the flag's orientation
Chile's flag law specifies more than the familiar blue, white and red arrangement. The white five-pointed star is centered in the blue square, and its diameter is half the length of one side of that square.
The same law gives a display rule for vertical use: blue goes on the viewer's left, white in the middle and red on the right. This keeps the color order clear when the horizontal design is turned upright.
Frequently asked questions
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Chile
- Continent
- South America
- Capital
- Santiago
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- CL
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- CHL
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 152
- Top-level domain
- .cl
- Area
- 756,950 km²
- Population
- 19,859,921 (2025)
- Currency
- CLP
- Calling code
- +56
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Chile (1541–)
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.
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