Flag of Yemen
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
Current flag
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Yemen
Flag facts
Flag design
Three equal-width horizontal bands.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Red, white, and black
What does the flag of Yemen mean?
Yemen's plain red-white-black Pan-Arab tricolour has no emblem; the colours are commonly linked with struggle, a difficult past and a better future.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Yemen
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Sanaa
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- YE
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- YEM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 887
- Top-level domain
- .ye
- Area
- 527,970 km²
- Population
- 41,773,878 (2025)
- Currency
- YER
- Calling code
- +967
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Yemen (1872–)
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.
