Flag of Kenya
The flag has 5 horizontal bands from top to bottom: black · white · red · white · green.
Current flag
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Kenya
Flag facts
- Adopted
- 1963
Flag design
The flag has 5 horizontal bands from top to bottom: black · white · red · white · green.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 5
- Details
- Unequal-width bands and Fimbriated element
- Colours
- Black, white, red, and green
Sources
The shield and spears at the centre of Kenya’s flag
Kenya’s flag has equal black, red and green horizontal bands separated by narrow white stripes. A red, black and white Maasai shield and two crossed white spears sit at the centre.
Kenya's Constitution sets out the flag's colours, band proportions and central emblem. Government branding guidelines attribute black to Kenya's people, red to the independence struggle, green to the land and natural resources, and white to peace. They say the shield and spears signify readiness to defend the country's independence.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Kenya
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Nairobi
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- KE
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- KEN
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 404
- Top-level domain
- .ke
- Area
- 582,650 km²
- Population
- 57,532,493 (2025)
- Currency
- KES
- Calling code
- +254
Flags with a similar layout
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Historical flags: Kenya (1885–)
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.
