Flag of Chad
Three equal vertical bands of dark blue, yellow and red.
What the flag means
The commonly given meanings are blue for the sky, hope and the waters of the south, yellow for the sun and the desert north, and red for progress, unity and sacrifice.
History
In June 1959 a legislative commission proposed a green, yellow and red tricolour like Mali's. To avoid confusion with neighbouring flags, the green was changed to blue. The result combined the blue of the French flag with pan-African yellow and red. The flag was adopted on 6 November 1959 for the autonomous republic and kept at independence on 11 August 1960 and in the 1962 constitution.
Chad's flag is almost identical to Romania's. In 2004 Chad asked the United Nations to look into the matter, and Romania's president Ion Iliescu replied that his country would keep its tricolour.
Earlier flags of Chad
- 1900–1959French tricolour, used in French Equatorial Africa
Flags that look like this one
Chad and Romania are near-identical blue, yellow and red vertical tricolours; Chad's blue is a darker indigo. Andorra and Moldova use the same colours but add a coat of arms in the centre.
Flags of Chad's neighbours
Sources
- Wikipedia: Flag of Chad
- Flags of the World: Chad
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Read how we research flags in our editorial policy, or report a mistake.
