Flag of France
Three equal-width vertical bands.
Current flag
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France
Flag facts
- Adopted
- 1794
Flag design
Three equal-width vertical bands.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Blue, white, and red
Sources
- Adopted: Élysée – Le drapeau français
Flag comparisons
A tricolour rooted in the Revolution
France’s blue-white-red vertical tricolour grew out of the revolutionary period. The Élysée records 1794 as the year the design became the national flag, placing today’s familiar pattern in that historical setting.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- France
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Paris
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- FR
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- FRA
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 250
- Top-level domain
- .fr
- Area
- 547,030 km²
- Population
- 68,720,337 (2025)
- Currency
- EUR
- Calling code
- +33
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: France (1643–)
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
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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.
