Flag of Malawi
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: black · red · green.
Current flag
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Malawi
Flag facts
Flag design
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: black · red · green.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Sun – Centre
- Colours
- Black, red, and green
What does the flag of Malawi mean?
Malawi's black-red-green flag bears a red rising sun for a new era of freedom and hope; the original design returned in 2012.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Malawi
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Lilongwe
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- MW
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- MWI
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 454
- Top-level domain
- .mw
- Area
- 118,480 km²
- Population
- 22,216,120 (2025)
- Currency
- MWK
- Calling code
- +265
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Malawi (1907–)
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.
