Flag of Sierra Leone
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
Current flag
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Sierra Leone
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Green, white, and blue
Sources
What does the flag of Sierra Leone mean?
Sierra Leone's simple green-white-blue horizontal tricolour connects land and agriculture, unity and justice, and the Atlantic coast and Freetown harbour.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Sierra Leone
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Freetown
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- SL
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- SLE
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 694
- Top-level domain
- .sl
- Area
- 71,740 km²
- Population
- 8,819,794 (2025)
- Currency
- SLL
- Calling code
- +232
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Sierra Leone (1792–)
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.
