Flag of Latvia
Three horizontal bands of unequal width.
Current flag
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Latvia
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 1:2 height: width
Flag design
Three horizontal bands of unequal width.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Unequal-width bands
- Colours
- Red and white
Sources
- Proportion: President of Latvia – National symbols
Latvia’s dark-red-and-white flag
Latvia’s flag has two broad dark carmine bands separated by a narrower white stripe, in a 2:1:2 height ratio. The deep red and slim centre distinguish it from Austria’s brighter red-and-white flag with equal bands.
A medieval reference to a red-and-white flag appears in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle. The well-known story of a bloodstained sheet and wounded leader is a traditional legend, not a verified account of how the present flag was made.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Latvia
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Riga
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- LV
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- LVA
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 428
- Top-level domain
- .lv
- Area
- 64,589 km²
- Population
- 1,847,785 (2025)
- Currency
- LVL
- Calling code
- +371
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Latvia (1562–)
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.
