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Flag of Spain
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · yellow · red.
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Spain
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 3 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · yellow · red.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Unequal-width bands
- Symbols
- Coat of arms – Hoist side
- Colours
- Red and yellow
Sources
Flag comparisons
What does Spain's flag mean?
Spain's flag has three horizontal bands: red, yellow and red. The yellow middle band is twice the height of either red band, and the coat of arms is placed toward the hoist.
The arms refer to historic kingdoms including Castile, León, Aragon, Navarre and Granada. They also show the Pillars of Hercules and the motto Plus Ultra, meaning “further beyond”. The red-yellow-red arrangement, often called la Rojigualda, is defined in the Spanish Constitution.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Spain
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Madrid
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- ES
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- ESP
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 724
- Top-level domain
- .es
- Area
- 504,782 km²
- Population
- 49,355,143 (2025)
- Currency
- EUR
- Calling code
- +34
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Spain (1506–)
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.
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