Flag of Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea’s flag has three equal horizontal bands of green, white, and red, a blue triangle at the hoist, and the national coat of arms in the center. The arms show a tree, six six-pointed stars, and a scroll bearing the words UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA.

Read the horizontal bands from top to bottom: green, white, then red. Blue forms the triangle beside the flagpole, rather than an additional stripe. The coat of arms sits centrally on white. Its smaller colored details belong to the emblem and do not change the three-band arrangement.

The official government explanation associates green with the country’s forest wealth. Broader accounts also connect it with natural resources and vegetation. It is the top horizontal band of the flag, while the separate green tree inside the arms forms part of the central emblem’s distinct design.

Blue represents the sea connecting Equatorial Guinea’s mainland and islands in the government’s explanation. The triangle occupies the hoist, or attachment edge, and points toward the fly. That meaning helps explain the design without making the triangle a geographic map or assigning its corners to particular islands.

White stands for peace, while red recalls blood associated with the struggle for independence in the official explanation. White occupies the middle band and red the bottom band. These meanings should be distinguished from the constitution’s physical description, which specifies their position without recounting every symbolic interpretation.

The central shield contains a silk-cotton or kapok tree, commonly called a ceiba. It has a broad green crown and a brown trunk in the supplied illustration. The tree belongs to the national coat of arms; it should not be replaced with a palm or another generic tropical tree.

The stars traditionally represent the mainland component, Río Muni, and five island components: Bioko, Annobón, Corisco, Elobey Grande, and Elobey Chico. This is a customary explanation of the emblem’s six-part grouping. It is not a count of modern provinces or an exhaustive list of every island and islet.

Each of the six stars above the shield has six points. The number of stars and the number of points are separate details: there are six stars, each six-pointed. A simplified drawing with five-pointed stars changes the emblem, even when the green, white, red, and blue field looks correct.

UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA means “Unity, Peace, Justice” in English. These are the three ideals written on the scroll beneath the tree shield. Article 4 also identifies the national motto. It is not an independence date, a president’s name, or a longer sentence hidden in the small lettering.

The reference flag supplied here has a 3:2 width-to-height ratio, equivalently 2:3 when height is stated first. A 90-by-60-centimeter example preserves that shape. Article 4 specifies equal bands and the placement of the triangle and arms, but does not itself prescribe a numeric overall aspect ratio.

In the supplied reference artwork, the triangle’s apex lies one-quarter of the total width from the hoist. Its base spans the full height. Historical and modern illustrations have varied, and Article 4 does not give a numeric triangle depth, so this measurement describes the downloadable SVG rather than a statutory construction rule.

The three underlying horizontal bands have equal height, each one-third of the flag’s height. Their exposed areas are not equal because the blue triangle overlaps them differently. The arms also cover part of white. Equal band dimensions therefore should not be confused with equal visible areas of every color.

The supplied SVG uses green #3E9A00, white #FFFFFF, red #E32118, and blue #0073CE for the field. The arms add yellow, gray, brown, black, and another green. These are the actual file’s digital fills, not a complete legally mandated palette for cloth, print, or every official image.

The national flag originated at independence from Spain on October 12, 1968. Its central emblem changed during the Macías period, and the familiar tree arms returned in 1979. A single adoption date can therefore conceal the distinction between the independence design, later changes, and the restoration of the present emblem.

Flag researchers report emblemless examples in photographs of the 1968 independence celebrations. Other accounts associate the national arms with independence, and references do not give a uniform early sequence. It is safer to identify a particular documented example than to claim that every flag before one fixed year lacked the arms.

The central emblem was replaced during the 1970s, while the familiar striped field and blue triangle continued. The altered arms are commonly cataloged as a 1973–1979 design. References differ on the precise beginning, so the broad period is more secure than an exact date inferred only from an illustration’s filename.

The familiar tree, six stars, and three-part motto returned in 1979 after the end of the Macías regime. Flag catalogs often specify August 21. The restoration year is used here, while the precise day is treated as a catalog attribution because its original adopting instrument was not located.

A 2018 CPDS retrospective credits Atanasio Ndong Miyono and Saturnino Ibongo Iyanga with the national symbols collectively. That account does not isolate a sole flag artist or reproduce an original design commission. The historical credit should therefore remain qualified and separate from authorship of the modern downloadable vector artwork.

No. Article 4 of the constitutional text promulgated in 2012 describes national symbols that have an earlier history. The flag originated with independence in 1968 and the familiar arms were restored in 1979. A later constitutional description should not automatically be treated as the date of a new flag design.

Some flag references have described an emblemless civil variant, while later researchers question that classification and connect plain examples with early history. Article 4 expressly places the arms in the flag’s center. The field-only diagrams here are teaching or historical illustrations, not confirmation of a separate current official civil flag.

Equatorial Guinea celebrates independence on October 12, recalling the end of Spanish colonial rule in 1968. Official anniversary ceremonies have included raising the national flag and military and popular parades. The date is presented here as Independence Day, without inventing a separate annual nationwide Flag Day from an adoption anniversary.

Flag catalogs often give August 21, 1979 as the restoration date for the familiar arms. That catalog date does not by itself establish an annual public holiday or nationwide Flag Day. No separate recurring observance on that date was verified for this article; October 12 is the supported independence commemoration.

Follow the applicable official mourning order and the instructions of the institution concerned. A 2016 order specified dates and covered public institutions, military sites, armed-forces ships, and diplomatic and consular missions abroad. That historical example does not establish a permanent three-day rule or announce a current mourning period.

The historical order cited here directs flags to be lowered for mourning but supplies no universal numerical halyard position. The diagram is consequently schematic. Confirm the responsible institution’s procedure and the current order rather than measuring halfway down a pole solely because an illustration shows a flag in a lower position.

Equatorial Guinea has horizontal green-white-red bands, a blue triangle, and tree arms. Guinea has vertical red-yellow-green bands without that triangle or coat of arms. The shared word Guinea does not identify one country, and the direction of the bands is a useful first clue before examining smaller emblem details.

Guinea-Bissau’s flag has a red hoist containing one black five-pointed star, with yellow above green toward the fly. Equatorial Guinea instead has a blue triangle, three horizontal green-white-red bands, and six six-pointed stars within its arms. Both the field arrangement and the star details distinguish the two designs.

Scale the complete artwork uniformly so the flag’s rectangular proportions, triangle, tree, and stars remain consistent. Cropping or stretching the master changes the design. Extra space for a webpage banner can sit around the flag; it need not be created by widening the emblem or cutting off the hoist triangle.

Check the band order, the blue triangle at the hoist, the complete central arms, all six six-pointed stars, and the readable national motto. Agree on the finished dimensions and color proof. Hems and sleeves need production allowances, but those allowances should not be mistaken for part of the visible flag design.

The photograph shows John Kerry greeting Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., on August 6, 2014. Equatorial Guinea’s flag appears on a table placard at lower right. It documents a printed diplomatic use of the design, rather than a flag-raising ceremony.

Use the unannotated flag SVG for the complete national design. The construction sheets, emblem close-ups, comparison plates, and historical reconstruction serve different explanatory purposes. They retain labels so that a teaching diagram or field-only reconstruction is not mistaken for the current complete flag when downloaded or printed separately.