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Flag of Guatemala
The flag has 3 vertical bands from hoist to fly: blue · white · blue.
Current flag
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Guatemala
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 5:8 height: width
- Adopted
- 1871
Flag design
The flag has 3 vertical bands from hoist to fly: blue · white · blue.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Coat of arms – Centre
- Colours
- Blue and white
Sources
- Proportion: Congress of Guatemala – Decree 104-97
- Adopted: Congress of Guatemala – Decree 104-97
A quetzal within the vertical tricolour
Guatemala’s sky-blue-white-sky-blue bands frame a central coat of arms that includes the quetzal. The design was adopted in 1871, and the emblem is what separates this flag from a plain vertical triband.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Guatemala
- Continent
- North and Central America
- Capital
- Guatemala City
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- GT
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- GTM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 320
- Top-level domain
- .gt
- Area
- 108,890 km²
- Population
- 18,687,881 (2025)
- Currency
- GTQ
- Calling code
- +502
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Guatemala (1519–)
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.
