- Capital
- Bucharest
- Continent
- Europe
- Flag adopted
- 1989
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Romania
Colors and meaning
Blue #002B7F
Liberty, from the flag first flown during the 1848 revolutions across the Romanian principalities
Yellow #FCD116
Justice
Red #CE1126
Fraternity
Symbolism and history
A plain blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor, restored in 1989 after the socialist-era coat of arms was cut from the flag's center during the revolution that overthrew Nicolae Ceaușescu, an act that made the hole itself an iconic image of the uprising.
Closest-looking flags
Chad
Nearly identical to Chad's flag, a resemblance so close that the two are frequently confused for one another; Chad has raised the issue with Romania in the past, without any change resulting.
Moldova
Nearly identical to Chad's flag, a resemblance so close that the two are frequently confused for one another; Chad has raised the issue with Romania in the past, without any change resulting.
Andorra
Nearly identical to Chad's flag, a resemblance so close that the two are frequently confused for one another; Chad has raised the issue with Romania in the past, without any change resulting.
Further reading: Flag of Romania on Wikipedia
