Flag of Estonia facts for kids
The flag of Estonia has three colours and is made of three equal horizontal bands coloured blue (top), black, and white (bottom). Blue mirrors the sky, black the colour of the soil and national coat, and white the peoples' happiness and light. In Estonian language it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands. The flag was designed in the 1880s and adopted when Estonia became independent in 1918.
Images for kids
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An interpretation version for the tricolour as being a representation of Estonia's natural scenery.
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Flags of Estonia on display during the announcement of the declaration of Independence in Pärnu on 23 February 1918. One of the first images of the Republic of Estonia.
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The original (1881) flag of the Estonian Students' Society
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Estonian cross flag proposal from 1919
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Flag of Denmark (1370). According to legend this flag originated in a 1219 battle in Estonia but the first historical record is at least 25 years later than the end of Danish Estonia.
See also
In Spanish: Bandera de Estonia para niños
