Flag of Mexico

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Flag of Mexico

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
Civil land: usedState land: usedWar land: usedCivil sea: usedState sea: usedWar sea: used

Used as civil, state and military flag, on land and at sea.
Official status
Officially adopted by national law
Colors
#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

📅 Timeline

PredecessorFlag of Mexico (1934–1968)
Current flagsince 16 September 1968