Ecuador Flag

How to identify it

The same yellow-blue-red proportions as Colombia with a full coat of arms, including a condor and a steamship, in the centre.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

Ecuador restored the yellow, blue and red tricolour in 1860; the present coat of arms was fixed in 1900.

History of the design

The arms-bearing centre distinguishes it from Colombia’s plain national flag and Venezuela’s arc of stars.

Similar flags

Compare the details that separate these designs.

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  Colombia

  Colombia has the same unequal yellow-blue-red bands but no central coat of arms; Ecuador adds the arms.

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