The flag of Sri Lanka

since 1972

The current flag of Sri Lanka was adopted in 1972 and flies at 1:2. No earlier flag is on record.

Sri Lanka, 1:2. flagcdn.com, public domain.

The colours

What the flag of Sri Lanka 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.

#00534e11.1% of the field
#eb740011.1% of the field
#ffbe2945% of the field
#8d153a32.7% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Sri Lanka 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: 1:2height to width
As a ratio: 2width divided by height
Adopted: 22 May 1972
Emoji: 🇱🇰derived from the ISO code
File: /flags/lk.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Sri Lanka

Record generated 2026-08-31 · Q854 · World Bank data · Asia