The flag of Egypt

The colours

What the flag of Egypt 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.

• #ce112634.3% of the field
• #ffffff31.2% of the field
• #00000034.5% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Egypt 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

1 January 1983

Emoji

🇪🇬derived from the ISO code

File

/flags/eg.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Before this one

The flags Egypt 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.

1844–1867

Flag of Egypt (1844–1867)TRAJAN 117, CC BY-SA 3.0

1867–1881

Flag of Muhammad AliCC0

1881–1922

Flag of Egypt (1882–1922)Public domain

1958–1999

Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024)Public domain

1972–1984

Flag of Egypt (1972–1984)Public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Egypt