What appears on the flag?
A red hoist triangle, green, black and yellow fields, and a central emblem.
Flag of Mozambique
Mozambique’s flag has five colours and a central emblem of a star, book, hoe and rifle.
Current flag
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Mozambique
Flag facts
Flag design
The flag has 5 horizontal bands from top to bottom: green · white · black · white · yellow.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 5
- Details
- Unequal-width bands
- Symbols
- Star – Hoist side
- Shapes
- Triangle – Hoist side
- Colours
- Green, white, black, yellow, and red
Flag of Mozambique
The constitution sets a red triangle at the hoist and horizontal green, black and yellow fields, with narrow white borders around the black stripe. The emblem combines a star, an open book, a hoe and a rifle.
Article 305 gives official meanings for the colours and emblem: the star represents solidarity, the book education, the hoe agriculture and the rifle defence. The flag was adopted in 1983.
Frequently asked questions
What does the emblem contain?
A star, an open book, a hoe and a rifle.
When was the flag adopted?
The current flag was adopted in 1983.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Mozambique
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Maputo
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- MZ
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- MOZ
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 508
- Top-level domain
- .mz
- Area
- 801,590 km²
- Population
- 35,631,653 (2025)
- Currency
- MZN
- Calling code
- +258
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Mozambique (1667–)
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.
