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title: "Flags with yellow in them — all 27"
description: "27 national flags use yellow, 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/yellow/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Flags with yellow in them

27 of the 126 flags here carry yellow, 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 yellow stands for there | Hex |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | The colour of the stars; traditionally associated with the Chinese people | #FFFF00 |
| Brazil | Mineral wealth; historically the House of Habsburg | #FFDF00 |
| Spain | From the same heraldic arms; the wider central band | #F1BF00 |
| Ukraine | Fields of ripe wheat | #FFDD00 |
| Colombia | The country's gold and its wealth | #FCD116 |
| Romania | Justice | #FCD116 |
| Sweden | The gold of those crowns | #FECB00 |
| Vietnam | The star; the traditional colour of the Vietnamese people | #FFFF00 |
| Belgium | The Brabant lion | #FAE042 |
| Malaysia | The royal colour of the Malay rulers | #FFCC00 |
| Venezuela | The wealth of the land | #FFCC00 |
| Mozambique | The country's minerals | #FCE100 |
| Ethiopia | Peace, and religious freedom | #FCDD09 |
| Ecuador | Abundance, crops and sunshine | #FFDD00 |
| Bhutan | The secular authority of the king | #FFD520 |
| Bolivia | The country's mineral wealth | #F9E300 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | The sun, and the shape of the country | #FECB00 |
| Moldova | The central band, bearing the arms | #FFD200 |
| Senegal | The country's wealth and the fruits of labour | #FDEF42 |
| Cameroon | The savannah of the north, and the sun | #FCD116 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Peace and wealth, in the sun | #FFEF00 |
| Mali | Purity, and the country's mineral wealth | #FCD116 |
| Andorra | Shared between the French and Spanish influences | #FEDD00 |
| Dominica | Sunshine, citrus and bananas, and the Kalinago people | #FCD116 |
| Guyana | Mineral wealth | #FCD116 |
| Eswatini | The mineral resources of the country | #FFD900 |
| Palau | The full moon | #FFDE00 |

## Read the whole flag

- [The flag of China](https://atoneplace.net/flag/china/) — A red field with one large yellow five-pointed star in the upper hoist and an arc of four smaller yellow stars to its right.
- [The flag of Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/flag/brazil/) — A green field with a large yellow rhombus, inside which a blue globe carries 27 white stars and a curved white band reading ORDEM E PROGRESSO.
- [The flag of Spain](https://atoneplace.net/flag/spain/) — Three horizontal bands of red, yellow and red, the yellow twice the height of each red band, with the coat of arms toward the hoist.
- [The flag of Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/flag/ukraine/) — Two equal horizontal bands, blue over yellow.
- [The flag of Colombia](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colombia/) — A yellow band filling the top half, with equal blue and red bands below it. No emblem.
- [The flag of Romania](https://atoneplace.net/flag/romania/) — Three equal vertical bands of cobalt blue at the hoist, yellow and red.
- [The flag of Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/flag/sweden/) — A blue field with a yellow Nordic cross offset toward the hoist.
- [The flag of Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/flag/vietnam/) — A red field with a large five-pointed yellow star at the centre.
- [The flag of Belgium](https://atoneplace.net/flag/belgium/) — Three equal vertical bands of black, yellow and red, on a nearly square flag.
- [The flag of Malaysia](https://atoneplace.net/flag/malaysia/) — Fourteen alternating red and white horizontal stripes with a blue canton bearing a yellow crescent and a fourteen-pointed yellow star.
- [The flag of Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/flag/venezuela/) — Three equal horizontal bands of yellow, blue and red, with an arc of eight white five-pointed stars on the blue.
- [The flag of Mozambique](https://atoneplace.net/flag/mozambique/) — Green, black and yellow horizontal bands separated by thin white fimbriations, with a red triangle at the hoist bearing a yellow star, on which sit an open book, a hoe and an AK-47 with a bayonet.
- [The flag of Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/flag/ethiopia/) — Three equal horizontal bands of green, yellow and red, with a blue disc at the centre bearing a yellow pentagram and rays.
- [The flag of Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/flag/ecuador/) — A yellow band filling the top half, with equal blue and red bands below, and the national coat of arms centred over all three.
- [The flag of Bhutan](https://atoneplace.net/flag/bhutan/) — A field divided diagonally from the lower hoist to the upper fly, yellow above and orange below, with a large white dragon holding jewels straddling the divide.
- [The flag of Bolivia](https://atoneplace.net/flag/bolivia/) — Three equal horizontal bands of red, yellow and green, with the coat of arms on the yellow band on the state version.
- [The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://atoneplace.net/flag/bosnia-and-herzegovina/) — A blue field with a yellow right triangle along the top edge and a diagonal line of white stars along the triangle's hypotenuse, the top and bottom stars cut off by the flag's edges.
- [The flag of Moldova](https://atoneplace.net/flag/moldova/) — Three equal vertical bands of blue, yellow and red, with the national coat of arms — an eagle holding a cross, with an aurochs head on its shield — on the yellow.
- [The flag of Senegal](https://atoneplace.net/flag/senegal/) — Three equal vertical bands of green, yellow and red, with a green five-pointed star on the yellow.
- [The flag of Cameroon](https://atoneplace.net/flag/cameroon/) — Three equal vertical bands of green, red and yellow, with a yellow five-pointed star centred on the red.
- [The flag of Kyrgyzstan](https://atoneplace.net/flag/kyrgyzstan/) — A red field with a yellow sun of forty rays at the centre, crossed inside by two sets of three lines forming the frame of a yurt roof.
- [The flag of Mali](https://atoneplace.net/flag/mali/) — Three equal vertical bands of green, yellow and red, with no emblem.
- [The flag of Andorra](https://atoneplace.net/flag/andorra/) — Three vertical bands of blue, yellow and red, the yellow slightly wider, with a quartered coat of arms at the centre.
- [The flag of Dominica](https://atoneplace.net/flag/dominica/) — A green field with a centred cross of three stripes — yellow, black and white — and a red disc at the centre bearing a purple sisserou parrot ringed by ten green stars.
- [The flag of Guyana](https://atoneplace.net/flag/guyana/) — A green field with a red triangle at the hoist edged in black, and a longer yellow arrowhead triangle edged in white pointing to the fly.
- [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.
- [The flag of Palau](https://atoneplace.net/flag/palau/) — A light blue field with a large yellow disc set slightly toward the hoist of centre.

## 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 crimson in them](https://atoneplace.net/flag/colour/crimson/)
- [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/)