The national flag of Moldova is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red, charged with the Coat of Arms of Moldova (an eagle holding a shield charged with an aurochs) on the centre bar. The reverse of the flag is a mirror image. The ratio of the flag is 1:2. The national flag of Moldova is used as the ensign, state and war flag.

The blue, yellow and red tricolour of Moldova is almost identical to the flag of Romania, reflecting the two countries’ national and cultural affinity. On Moldova’s flag the yellow stripe is charged with the national arms. Like the Romanian coat of arms. The Moldovan arms, adopted in 1990, features a dark golden eagle holding an Orthodox Christian cross in its beak. Instead of a sword, the eagle is holding an olive branch, symbolizing peace. The blue and red shield on the eagle’s chest is charged with the traditional symbols of Moldova: an aurochs’ head, flanked by a rose at dexter and a crescent at senester, and having a star between its horns, all of gold. These two national flags are also very similar to the flags of Chad and Andorra, which are all based on vertical stripes of blue, yellow, and red.

Romania Andorra Chad

Since April 2010, the Flag Day of Moldova is 27 April each year. On this day in 1990, the tricolour was officially adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR as the state flag of the country.

Historic flags

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