The flag of Costa Rica

The colours

What the flag of Costa Rica 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.

• #ffffff35.4% of the field
• #00148934.1% of the field
• #da291c30.5% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Costa Rica 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

3:5height to width

As a ratio

1.6667width divided by height

Adopted

27 November 1906

Emoji

🇨🇷derived from the ISO code

File

/flags/cr.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Before this one

The flags Costa Rica flew before

Every flag on record with a start and an end date, oldest first. A flag change is a constitutional event and the dates are the point: the years below are the years each design was the flag, not the years anybody designed it.

1821–1823

Flag of Costa Rica (1821–1823)Public domain

1823–1824

Flag of Costa Rica (1823–1824)Public domain

1824–1824

Flag of the United Provinces of Central AmericaHuhsunqu, CC BY-SA 3.0

1824–1824

Flag of Costa Rica (1824)Public domain

1824–1840

Flag of Costa Rica (1824–1840)Public domain

1840–1842

Flag of Costa Rica (1840–1842)Public domain

1842–1848

Flag of Costa Rica (1842–1848)Public domain

1848–1906

Flag of Costa Rica (1848–1906)Public domain

1906–1964

State flag of Costa Rica (1906–1964)Public domain

1964–1998

State flag of Costa Rica (1964–1998)Public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Costa Rica