Flags with yellow
66 national flags include the colour yellow. Every one is shown below; select any flag for the country’s full profile.
Where yellow flags are, by region
Yellow is most common in Africa, where 25 of 59 flags carry it. Across the whole dataset it appears on 66 of 250 flags, about 26 percent.
| Region | Flags with yellow | Flags in region | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 25 | 59 | 42% |
| Americas | 17 | 56 | 30% |
| Europe | 14 | 53 | 26% |
| Oceania | 7 | 27 | 26% |
| Asia | 3 | 50 | 6% |
No flag in Antarctic carries yellow at the threshold used here.
What yellow is usually paired with
Of the 66 flags that include yellow, these are the colours it shares a flag with most often.
- Red: 45 flags (see every red flag)
- Blue: 38 flags (see every blue flag)
- Green: 29 flags (see every green flag)
- White: 13 flags (see every white flag)
- Black: 11 flags (see every black flag)
- Orange: 3 flags (see every orange flag)
14 of them are two-colour flags, where yellow is half the whole design.
How this list is defined
A flag is on this list when yellow covers at least 7 percent of its opaque area, measured at build time from the official public-domain SVG. That threshold is deliberate: it keeps outlines, anti-aliasing and the fine detail inside a coat of arms from counting as a colour of the flag, while still catching a genuine stripe or charge.
Two exceptions are built in. A very dark but strongly saturated colour keeps its hue instead of being called black, so a bottle green stays green. And red reaches into the crimson range, because a great many flag reds sit there. The full method is on the data page, so this is a claim you can check rather than one you have to take on trust.
What the method does not capture is layout. Two flags built from the same colour families can look nothing alike, so treat this as a colour index and not as a ruling on which flags resemble each other.
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Colours are computed from each official public-domain flag SVG, not curated by hand. Full sources and vintage on the data page. Last updated . Report a correction.