Articles on the flag of Mexico — history, design, official protocols of display, and contemporary events involving the national flag.
Mexico Flag
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
“el Lábaro Patrio; la Bandera Tricolor”
Also known as Messico (it); Mexique (fr); Mexiko (de); México (es)
ISO 3166: MX (484)
- Adopted
- 16 September 1968
- Proportions
- 4:7
- FIAV usage
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Used as civil, state and military flag, on land and at sea.
- Official status
- ⊕Officially adopted by national law
- Colors
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#006847 #FFFFFF #CE1126 - Designer
- Francisco Eppens Helguera (coat of arms, 1968)
- Predecessor
- Flag of Mexico (1934–1968)
- Regulatory document
- Ley sobre el Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales (DOF 8 February 1984)
- Design family
- Vertical tricolour
- Blazoning
- On the white band, centred, the National Coat of Arms: a Mexican golden eagle, displayed in left profile in a fighting attitude, perched on its left talon upon a flowering nopal cactus rising from a rock in the centre of a lake; grasping in its right talon and beak a curved serpent; flanked by branches of oak (dexter) and laurel (sinister) tied at base by a ribbon in the national colours
- Construction sheet
- https://www.fotw.info/flags/mx.html
📚 Regulatory documents
📅 Timeline
PredecessorFlag of Mexico (1934–1968)
Current flagsince 16 September 1968