Flag of Malta
Two equal-width vertical bands.
Current flag
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Malta
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
Two equal-width vertical bands.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- White and red
Sources
The George Cross on Malta’s flag
Malta’s flag is divided vertically into white at the hoist and red at the fly. A George Cross, outlined in red, appears in the upper hoist corner and can be easy to miss when the flag is shown small.
King George VI awarded the cross to Malta in 1942 in recognition of the islands’ courage during the Second World War. It is an actual British decoration incorporated into the flag, not simply a stylised Christian cross.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Malta
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Valletta
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- MT
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- MLT
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 470
- Top-level domain
- .mt
- Area
- 316 km²
- Population
- 579,704 (2025)
- Currency
- EUR
- Calling code
- +356
Flags with a similar layout
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Historical flags: Malta (1530–)
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.