What ratio does Nicaragua specify for its flag?
The flag decree gives a 3:5 ratio.
Flag of Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s blue-and-white flag has three equal horizontal bands and a coat of arms at its centre. Recent constitutional wording also names a second flag symbol.
Current flag
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Nicaragua
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 3:5 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: blue · white · blue.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Coat of arms – Centre
- Colours
- Blue and white
Sources
The central emblem changes the plain triband
Nicaragua’s blue-white-blue bands carry a triangular national emblem in the centre. Its volcanoes and rainbow are small details, but they separate the state flag from a plain horizontal triband at a glance.
Flag and national symbols
It has three equal horizontal bands, blue, white and blue, with the national coat of arms in the centre of the white band. The decree associates blue with justice and loyalty, and white with purity and integrity.
Article 20 of the consolidated 2025 Constitution names the blue-and-white flags and the rojinegra flag among national symbols. Law No. 1249 (2025) designates 4 May as the Day of National Dignity and the Day of the National Flags. The provisions recognize both symbols without making their designs interchangeable.
Frequently asked questions
What does Nicaragua’s blue-and-white flag look like?
It has three equal horizontal bands, blue, white and blue, with the national coat of arms in the centre of the white band.
Which flags does the 2025 Constitution name?
Article 20 of the consolidated 2025 Constitution names the blue-and-white flags and the rojinegra flag among national symbols. Law No. 1249 (2025) designates 4 May as the Day of National Dignity and the Day of the National Flags. The provisions recognize both symbols without making their designs interchangeable.
What does the coat of arms show?
It contains five volcanoes beneath a rainbow, with a liberty cap, as specified in the National Symbols Decree.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Nicaragua
- Continent
- North and Central America
- Capital
- Managua
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- NI
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- NIC
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 558
- Top-level domain
- .ni
- Area
- 129,494 km²
- Population
- 7,007,502 (2025)
- Currency
- NIO
- Calling code
- +505
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Historical flags: Nicaragua (1524–)
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