- Capital
- Sucre
- Continent
- South America
- Flag adopted
- 1851
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Bolivia
Colors and meaning
Red #D52B1E
The bravery of the Bolivian army
Yellow #F9E300
Mineral wealth, particularly the country's silver and tin deposits
Green #007934
The fertility of the land and hope
Symbolism and history
A red-yellow-green horizontal tricolor bears the national coat of arms on state versions, featuring Mount Potosí and a condor, while a separate square rainbow-checkered Wiphala flag representing Indigenous peoples flies alongside it with equal official status since 2009.
Closest-looking flags
Ghana
Shares the pan-African-adjacent red-yellow-green palette by coincidence with Ghana's and Guinea's flags, an unrelated convergence rather than a shared origin.
Guinea
Shares the pan-African-adjacent red-yellow-green palette by coincidence with Ghana's and Guinea's flags, an unrelated convergence rather than a shared origin.
Further reading: Flag of Bolivia on Wikipedia
