What are the proportions of Uruguay’s flag?
The flag law specifies a 2:3 ratio.
Flag of Uruguay
The flag has 9 horizontal bands from top to bottom: white · blue · white · blue · white · blue · white · blue · white.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇺🇾
Uruguay
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 9 horizontal bands from top to bottom: white · blue · white · blue · white · blue · white · blue · white.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 9
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Sun – Canton
- Colours
- White, blue, and yellow
Sources
- Proportion: Parliament of Uruguay – National symbols law
Flag comparisons
Nine stripes and the Sun of May
Uruguay alternates blue and white across nine horizontal stripes, with the Sun of May in the upper hoist canton. Reading the stripe count together with the sun’s position helps distinguish it from other blue-and-white flags.
Frequently asked questions
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Uruguay
- Continent
- South America
- Capital
- Montevideo
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- UY
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- URY
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 858
- Top-level domain
- .uy
- Area
- 176,220 km²
- Population
- 3,384,688 (2025)
- Currency
- UYU
- Calling code
- +598
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Uruguay (1624–)
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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