Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its colour palette includes blue, red, and yellow.
Current flag
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Flag facts
Flag design
Visible design element: Star.
- Layout
- Complex layout
- Symbols
- Star – Canton
- Colours
- Blue, red, and yellow
The diagonal stripe on DR Congo’s flag
The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a sky-blue field, a yellow star in the upper hoist and a red diagonal stripe edged in yellow. The stripe cuts across the field instead of dividing it into horizontal or vertical bands.
The Constitution sets out these elements as the national flag's design. It specifies the star, stripe, colours and their placement, but does not provide a colour-by-colour symbolic explanation.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Kinshasa
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- CD
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- COD
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 180
- Top-level domain
- .cd
- Area
- 2,345,410 km²
- Population
- 112,832,473 (2025)
- Currency
- CDF
- Calling code
- +243
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1877–)
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.
