Flag of Djibouti

Djibouti’s flag has a light-blue upper band and a green lower band, with a white triangle along the hoist. A red five-pointed star sits inside the triangle. In an ordinary horizontal view, the star has one point upward and the triangle points toward the free end.

The national flag was adopted on June 27, 1977, when Djibouti became independent from France. That date marks its use as the flag of the sovereign republic. Earlier independence-movement associations should be distinguished from national adoption, and the independence referendum took place earlier, on May 8.

Common interpretations connect blue with the sea and sky, green with the earth, and white with peace. The red star expresses unity and remembrance of the independence struggle. Blue and green also carry historical associations with the Issa Somali and Afar communities within the country.

The red star is commonly understood as a symbol of national unity and the struggle for independence. It has five outer points, with one point upright in the usual horizontal flag. The Constitution names the five-pointed red star without assigning a separate meaning to every point.

The constitutional description does not assign individual star points to administrative regions. A five-pointed star should not automatically be read as a map or a list of provinces. Regional and historical interpretations need their own evidence; the principal explanation used here is unity and the independence struggle.

The white triangle provides the setting for the red star and is commonly associated with peace. Its base runs along the hoist, so it touches the upper and lower corners beside the pole. Its point reaches into the blue and green field toward the fly.

Those numbers describe the same common rectangle when their order is stated. A height-to-width ratio of 2:3 equals a width-to-height ratio of 3:2. This article uses width first. Some specialist references also record longer formats, so a ratio should always be read with its stated convention.

The downloadable flag here uses an equilateral white triangle. Official and specialist illustrations are not fully consistent, and Article 2 of the Constitution does not supply triangle measurements. An equilateral triangle is therefore a disclosed choice for this rendering, not a universal legal requirement established by that article.

The supplied artwork uses blue #6AB2E7, green #12AD2B, white #FFFFFF, and red #D7141A. These values reproduce the selected digital reference. They are useful for matching these downloads, but they should not be treated as a statutory textile standard or an authoritative Pantone conversion for every manufacturer.

A specialist flag reference attributes the design to Mahamoud Harbi, but the primary design commission or signed construction document was not verified for this article. The attribution is therefore qualified. Designing a flag, promoting an independence movement, and raising a flag at independence are different historical roles.

Article 2 identifies the republic’s emblem as a flag in blue, green, and white bearing a red five-pointed star. It establishes those identifying elements without publishing a detailed construction grid, numerical color codes, or a list of meanings for each individual part of the design.

The ordinary national flag carries only the red star inside its white triangle; it does not include the coat of arms. Djibouti’s seal uses a separate arrangement involving a shield, spear, star, laurel branches, and hands holding traditional daggers. The seal and the flag should not be combined.

June 27, Independence Day, is the principal national occasion discussed here for displaying Djibouti’s flag. Official celebrations connect the date with sovereignty and national unity. A separate nationwide statutory observance formally named Flag Day was not verified, so June 27 is identified accurately as Independence Day.

Photographic reporting of Independence Day describes national flags and colors on homes, shops, vehicles, and public buildings. This establishes ordinary public use in that setting. For a particular installation or formal ceremony, follow the organizer’s directions and applicable local requirements rather than assuming the same arrangements apply everywhere.

Djibouti has used official orders to lower the national flag for mourning. One decree dated June 11, 2000 ordered a period of half-staff display after Syrian President Hafez El-Assad died. A current display should follow the relevant order’s dates and scope; that historical decree is not a permanent calendar.

The mourning illustration here shows a lowered position schematically, without prescribing a numerical distance. The reviewed Djiboutian decree sets a mourning period but does not provide a pole-height formula. Follow the instructions for the particular institution or ceremony instead of converting an explanatory picture into a binding placement rule.

When viewed from the other side of a horizontally flown flag, the white triangle appears beside the pole on the viewer’s right. Blue remains above green, and the star remains upright. This is the reverse of the same cloth, not a different national flag with a new design.

First establish the intended attachment and the organizer’s approved artwork. Rotating the ordinary horizontal image also rotates the star and moves the triangle to a different edge. This article does not prescribe a universal Djiboutian vertical-display rule or silently redraw the star to create a supposedly official vertical variant.

Djibouti uses blue and green bands with a white hoist triangle containing a red star. Somalia uses a plain light-blue field with a white star at its center. Looking at the star’s color and the surrounding field distinguishes the two flags without relying on subtle differences in blue shades.

The ordinary Djibouti flag contains neither a crescent nor lettering. Its only emblem is the red five-pointed star within the white triangle. The national motto is a separate constitutional expression. Adding a motto, seal, or religious inscription would create an altered graphic rather than reproduce the plain national flag.

The supplied drawing can be scaled uniformly to any practical size while preserving its proportions. For this 3:2 rendering, a flag 60 centimeters high is 90 centimeters wide. Finished visible dimensions should be distinguished from cutting dimensions, which also depend on seams, hems, and the chosen attachment method.

The downloadable vectors use explicit color values from the selected SVG reference, not colors sampled from the photographs. Light, shadows, folds, camera processing, and image compression can change the appearance of cloth. The documentary images show flags in use; they are not manufacturing color-control samples.

Yes. The picture gallery links to the actual local SVG diagrams and WebP photographs used in this article. SVG files remain sharp when scaled. Check the credit and license shown with each image, because the original diagrams and documentary photographs do not all have the same reuse terms.

Follow the maker’s care instructions for an ordinary modern flag, check seams and attachments, and store the cloth clean and dry. A historic flag may need textile-conservation advice before cleaning or repair. No countrywide mandatory washing method, fabric requirement, or flag-disposal ceremony is established by this article.