The flag of Benin

since 1959

The current flag of Benin was adopted in 1959 and flies at 2:3. No earlier flag is on record.

Benin, 2:3. flagcdn.com, public domain.

The colours

What the flag of Benin is made of

Counted off the file rather than read out of it. Every pixel of a 320-pixel rendering is sorted into a colour, so the share below is the share of the flag a person actually sees, and an emblem’s interior shades do not outrank a band covering a third of the field.

#00875140.1% of the field
#fcd11629.9% of the field
#e8112d30% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Benin are drawn in. Nothing on this site takes a country’s colours from anywhere but its own flag.

The shape

Its proportion and its dates

Proportion: 2:3height to width
As a ratio: 1.5width divided by height
Adopted: 16 November 1959
Emoji: 🇧🇯derived from the ISO code
File: /flags/bj.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Benin

Record generated 2026-08-31 · Q962 · World Bank data · Africa