When was the Dominican flag adopted?
The Presidency records 1844 as its adoption year.
Flag of the Dominican Republic
Its colour palette includes blue, red, and white.
Current flag
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Dominican Republic
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
- Adopted
- 1844
Flag design
Centred cross.
- Layout
- Cross
- Cross type
- Centred cross
- Symbols
- Coat of arms – Centre
- Colours
- Blue, red, and white
Sources
A white cross divides the coloured quarters
The Dominican flag’s white cross separates blue and red quarters and meets beneath the central coat of arms. That cross, rather than a simple sequence of coloured bands, gives the design its distinctive structure.
Frequently asked questions
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Dominican Republic
- Continent
- North and Central America
- Capital
- Santo Domingo
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- DO
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- DOM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 214
- Top-level domain
- .do
- Area
- 48,730 km²
- Population
- 11,520,487 (2025)
- Currency
- DOP
- Calling code
- ++1-809 and 1-829
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Dominican Republic (1506–)
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.
