The flag of Botswana

since 1966

The current flag of Botswana was adopted in 1966 and flies at 2:3. No earlier flag is on record.

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

The colours

What the flag of Botswana 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.

#6da9d275.7% of the field
#00000016.7% of the field
#ffffff7.6% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Botswana 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: 30 September 1966
Emoji: 🇧🇼derived from the ISO code
File: /flags/bw.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Botswana

Record generated 2026-08-31 · Q963 · World Bank data · Africa