The flag of China

since 1949

The current flag of China was adopted in 1949 and flies at 2:3. No earlier flag is on record.

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

The colours

What the flag of China 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.

#ffff002.1% of the field
#ee1c2597.9% of the field

These are the colours the plates for China 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: 27 September 1949
Emoji: 🇨🇳derived from the ISO code
File: /flags/cn.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of China

Record generated 2026-08-31 · Q148 · World Bank data · Asia