Croatia Flag - Republic of

The flag of the Republic of Croatia consists of three bands of red, white and blue with the coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia in the center. The bands of color are laid horizontally from the top: red, white and blue. Each color fills one-third of the width of the flag. The Croatian coat of arms is placed in the center of the flag so that the crown extends into the red field and the bottom of the shield extends into the blue field.

The historic coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia is a shield with a checkered pattern of twenty-five alternating red and white (silver) fields, with the first field in the upper left corner of the shield being red. A five-pointed crown arches above the shield, between its upper left and upper right corners. The crown is made of five smaller shields each bearing a different set of historic Croatian Arms. From left to right these include: the oldest known Croatian coat of arms, followed by the coats of arms of Croatia’s founding regions -the Dubrovnik Republic, Dalmatia, Istria and Slavonia.