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Flag of Croatia
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · white · blue.
Current flag
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Croatia
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 1:2 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · white · blue.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Coat of arms – Centre
- Colours
- Red, white, and blue
Sources
Croatia’s chequered shield and regional crown
Croatia’s flag has red, white and blue horizontal bands with the national coat of arms at the centre. The shield begins with a red-and-white chequerboard, often called the šahovnica.
Five smaller shields form a crown above the main shield and represent historical Croatian regions. The central arms, rather than the tricolour alone, distinguish Croatia’s flag from other red-white-blue designs. The national law defines the coat of arms and its place on the flag.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Croatia
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Zagreb
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- HR
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- HRV
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 191
- Top-level domain
- .hr
- Area
- 56,542 km²
- Population
- 3,876,200 (2025)
- Currency
- HRK
- Calling code
- +385
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Croatia (1527–)
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.
