Flag of Chad

Chad’s national flag is a rectangle with three equal vertical bands: blue next to the pole, yellow in the middle, and red at the free edge. It has no badge or emblem. Standard reference drawings usually show a height-to-width ratio of 2:3.

November 6, 1959, is the adoption date given by standard flag references. The design therefore predates Chad’s independence on August 11, 1960. The June 1959 green-yellow-red committee proposal belongs to the design process; it should not be presented as the adopted blue-yellow-red national flag.

The hoist position is part of the flag’s defined design: Chad’s constitutional description specifically places blue beside the staff. The normal front-view sequence is therefore blue, yellow, red. On the reverse of the same piece of cloth, blue remains attached to the pole even though it appears at the right.

Common interpretations connect blue with the sky and hope, yellow with the sun and northern desert, and red with unity and sacrifice. These explanations give the design cultural context. They should be distinguished from the constitutional description, which specifies the arrangement and color names rather than explaining each color.

Both descriptions refer to the middle band. The French constitutional wording uses “or,” meaning gold, while ordinary flag descriptions often call the visible color yellow. That wording does not by itself specify metallic fabric, a printing ink, or a particular hexadecimal value for a digital illustration.

No. The national flag is the plain three-band design. Its central yellow band carries no star, shield, or coat of arms. A separate national emblem, an institutional standard, or an illustration with an added badge should not be substituted for the national flag shown here.

The conventional reference ratio is 2:3, stated as height to width. A 60-centimeter-high example is therefore 90 centimeters wide, with each vertical band 30 centimeters wide. These are calculated dimensions for that ratio; Article 8’s flag description does not itself state an overall numerical proportion.

Yes. The flag’s vertical bands are equal. Divide the total width into three identical parts, keeping each band the full height of the rectangle. The yellow center is one-third of the total width; it is not a wider central panel, and no outline separates the bands.

They are separate national flags with an exceptionally similar layout: blue, yellow, and red in equal vertical bands. Chad is commonly illustrated with a darker blue. Lighting, printing, fading, and image processing make shade alone unreliable, so identify a photographed flag through its setting and a dependable caption.

The documented account of Chad’s 1959 selection concerns a green-yellow-red proposal and the need to distinguish it from the Mali Federation’s colors. That history does not establish copying from Romania. Similar appearance alone is not evidence that one country borrowed its national flag directly from the other.

The history summarized in the sources describes a legislative committee and government selection process in 1959. A securely documented individual designer is not established by the material reviewed for this page. Naming a politician, governor, or online illustrator as the designer would go beyond that evidence.

A green-yellow-red tricolor was proposed during the 1959 selection process. The adopted design replaced the green hoist band with blue. The green version illustrated here is a labeled reconstruction of that proposal, not a claim that independent Chad officially flew it as its national flag.

Chad’s National Day is August 11, the anniversary of independence in 1960. It is different from November 6, the date normally associated with the flag’s adoption in 1959. A flag’s adoption anniversary should not automatically be called an officially established annual Flag Day.

The listed hexadecimal values describe the digital palette used consistently in these illustrations. They are useful for matching the downloadable artwork. They are not presented as a national color law, and a screen color value should not be treated as an exact substitute for a physical textile or printing standard.

For the London 2012 Games, the published event guidance described a clockwise rotation of Chad’s flag, producing blue at the top, yellow in the middle, and red below. That is a documented event convention. For a particular official ceremony, follow the instructions issued by its responsible protocol authority.

That sequence can be the reverse side of a correctly mounted flag. Look for the flagpole: the blue band should still meet it. A photograph taken from behind a display, or a horizontally mirrored image, can reverse the apparent left-to-right sequence without documenting a different national design.

Yes. Reported national mourning orders have instructed flags to fly at half-mast, including a three-day period announced in May 2026. Such an order applies to a defined occasion. Use a current official notice to establish today’s dates and scope instead of treating an old report as a standing calendar.

The original diagrams supplied with this article can be downloaded and reused for educational illustrations. Keep the explanatory labels where they distinguish a proposal or a drawing convention from an adopted design. Preserve the proportions and color order, and retain any separate credit attached to a documentary photograph.