Flag of Timor Leste
Its colour palette includes red, black, yellow, and white.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇹🇱
Timor Leste
Flag facts
- Adopted
- 2002
Flag design
- Layout
- Complex layout
- Symbols
- Star – Hoist side
- Shapes
- Triangle – Hoist side
- Colours
- Red, black, yellow, and white
What does the flag of Timor Leste mean?
Timor-Leste's red field and yellow-black triangles carry a white star for peace; the colours recall colonialism, hardship and liberation.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Timor Leste
- Continent
- Oceania
- Capital
- Dili
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- TL
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- TLS
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 626
- Top-level domain
- .tl
- Area
- 15,007 km²
- Population
- 1,418,517 (2025)
- Currency
- USD
- Calling code
- +670
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Timor Leste (1702–)
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.
