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Flag of Vietnam
Its colour palette includes red and yellow.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇻🇳
Vietnam
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
Visible design element: Star.
- Layout
- Plain field
- Symbols
- Star – Centre
- Colours
- Red and yellow
Sources
- Proportion: Government of Vietnam – National Flag
Vietnam’s gold star on a red field
Vietnam's national flag is a large gold five-pointed star on a red field. The Constitution defines this design but does not assign a separate meaning to each point of the star.
The formal description is concise: it specifies a red field and a centred gold star, without an official colour-by-colour or point-by-point symbolic key. Explanations that map the star's points to particular social groups should therefore be attributed as interpretations, not quoted as constitutional text.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Vietnam
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Hanoi
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- VN
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- VNM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 704
- Top-level domain
- .vn
- Area
- 329,560 km²
- Population
- 101,598,527 (2025)
- Currency
- VND
- Calling code
- +84
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Vietnam (1778–)
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.
