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Flag of Poland
Two equal-width horizontal bands.
Current flag
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Poland
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 5:8 height: width
Flag design
Two equal-width horizontal bands.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- White and red
Flag comparisons
Poland’s white-over-red flag
Poland’s national flag has two equal horizontal bands, white above red. The colours are drawn from Polish heraldry, especially the white eagle shown on a red shield in the national arms.
The ordinary national flag is the plain two-band version. A flag bearing the coat of arms is also used in specified official settings, including Polish missions and some vessels. The distinction helps separate Poland’s flag from the red-over-white flags of Indonesia and Monaco.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Poland
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Warsaw
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- PL
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- POL
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 616
- Top-level domain
- .pl
- Area
- 312,685 km²
- Population
- 36,435,861 (2025)
- Currency
- PLN
- Calling code
- +48
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Poland (1807–)
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.
