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The flag of Estonia waving above the Pikk Hermann tower of Toompea Castle in Tallinn. The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the centre, and white at the bottom. The flag is called sinimustvalge (lit. ' blue-black-white ') in Estonian.
Red field with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. The swastika disk is slightly off-centre. 1918: Flag of German Empire: Horizontal black-white-red triband. 1896–1917: Flag of Russian Empire: Horizontal white-blue-red triband. 1858–1896: Flag of Russian Empire: Horizontal black-yellow-white triband. 1650–1721
The blue-black-white flag was first consecrated at Otepää on 4 June 1884, as the flag of the Estonian University Student Association. During the following years the blue-black-white flag became a national symbol. The flag was already used as state flag on 24 February, when Estonia declared independence.
After this battle against Estonia's traditional oppressors, jaaniõhtu and the lighting of the traditional bonfires became linked with the ideals of independence and freedom. Since 1934, June 23 is also national Victory Day of Estonia, and both the 23rd and 24th are holidays and flag days - when the blue-black-white tricolor is raised at sunrise.
The tricolore consists of three vertical bands of equal width, displaying the country's national colours: blue, white, and red. The blue band is positioned nearest the flagstaff, the white in the middle, and the red on the outside. Red, white and blue have come to represent liberty, equality and fraternity—the ideals of the French Revolution.
Estonia, [b] officially the Republic of Estonia, [c] is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. [ d ] It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland , to the west by the sea across from Sweden , to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Russia .
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have showcased quite a bit of the red, white and blue colors that many of the national flags have.
The flag of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, consists of three blue and three white equally sized horizontal bars.Its official ratio of length and width is 2:1, and the normal size (as stipulated by law in 1996) is 160 × 80 cm. [1]