---
title: "Flags with crimson in them — all 5"
description: "5 national flags use crimson, and they mean very different things by it — from blood shed to fertile land. Each country's own reading, with its hex value."
url: https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/crimson/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Flags with crimson in them

5 of the 126 flags here carry crimson, and they do not agree on what it represents. The table gives each country's own stated meaning rather than a generalisation across them.

| Country | What crimson stands for there | Hex |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | The sun, and sincerity and warmth | #BC002D |
| Nepal | The rhododendron, the national flower, and the bravery of the people | #DC143C |
| Sri Lanka | The Sinhalese majority | #8D2029 |
| Latvia | A dark carmine, known internationally as Latvian red | #9E3039 |
| Eswatini | Past battles | #B10C0C |

## Read the whole flag

- [The flag of Japan](https://atoneplace.net/flag/japan/) — A plain white field with a large crimson disc at the exact centre, three-fifths of the flag's height across.
- [The flag of Nepal](https://atoneplace.net/flag/nepal/) — Two stacked crimson pennants with blue borders, the upper bearing a white crescent moon and the lower a white twelve-pointed sun. The only national flag that is not a rectangle.
- [The flag of Sri Lanka](https://atoneplace.net/flag/sri-lanka/) — A dark red field with a gold lion holding a sword and four gold bo leaves at the corners, beside two vertical stripes of green and orange at the hoist, all within a gold border.
- [The flag of Latvia](https://atoneplace.net/flag/latvia/) — A dark carmine field crossed by a narrow white horizontal band that occupies the middle fifth.
- [The flag of Eswatini](https://atoneplace.net/flag/eswatini/) — Blue bands top and bottom with a wide crimson band between them edged in yellow, carrying a black-and-white Nguni shield laid horizontally over two spears and a staff hung with feather tassels.

## Related pages

- [Flags with black in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/black/)
- [Flags with blue in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/blue/)
- [Flags with copper in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/copper/)
- [Flags with gold in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/gold/)
- [Flags with green in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/green/)
- [Flags with light blue in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/light blue/)
- [Flags with maroon in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/maroon/)
- [Flags with orange in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/orange/)
- [Flags with purple in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/purple/)
- [Flags with red in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/red/)
- [Flags with saffron in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/saffron/)
- [Flags with sky blue in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/sky blue/)
- [Flags with white in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/white/)
- [Flags with yellow in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/yellow/)