Colombia vs Ecuador vs Venezuela flag: how to tell them apart

All three are yellow, blue and red from top to bottom. Colombia and Ecuador have a yellow stripe twice as tall as the others, Ecuador adds its coat of arms in the centre, and Venezuela has three equal stripes with eight white stars.

Colombia

Ecuador

Venezuela

How to tell them apart

Stripe heights

Colombia and Ecuador both use a 2:1:1 layout, with yellow filling the top half. Venezuela's stripes are equal.

Ecuador's coat of arms

Ecuador's flag has its coat of arms in the centre: an oval shield with Chimborazo mountain and a river, topped by a condor with spread wings.

Venezuela's stars

Venezuela has an arc of eight white five-pointed stars on the blue band. The eighth star, for Guayana Province, was added by Bolivar's 1817 decree.

Colombia is plain

Colombia's national flag has no emblem. Its coat of arms only appears on official variants like the state flag.

Shared shape

All three are 2:3. They share roots in the 1811 flag of the First Venezuelan Republic.

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