The flag of El Salvador

The colours

What the flag of El Salvador 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.

• #0047ab68.8% of the field
• #ffffff31.2% of the field

These are the colours the plates for El Salvador 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

22:39height to width

As a ratio

1.7725width divided by height

Adopted

29 January 1922

Emoji

🇸🇻derived from the ISO code

File

/flags/sv.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Before this one

The flags El Salvador 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.

1822–1823

Flag of El Salvador (1822–1865)Public domain

1823–1824

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

1824–1841

Flag of the Federal Republic of Central AmericaHuhsunqu, CC BY-SA 2.5

1841–1865

Flag of El Salvador (1822–1865)Public domain

1865–1865

Flag of El Salvador (April 1865)Public domain

1865–1869

Flag of El Salvador (June 1865)Public domain

1869–1873

Flag of El Salvador (1869–1873)Public domain

1873–1875

Flag of El Salvador (1873–1875)Public domain

1875–1912

Flag of El Salvador (1875–1912)Public domain

1912–1921

Flag of El SalvadorPublic domain

1921–1922

Flag of the Federation of Central America (1921–1922)Public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of El Salvador