Estonia
Adopted1990
Design classHorizontal Tricolor
RegionEurope
Blue, black and white bands.
History and symbolism
The blue, black and white tricolor of the student movement of the 1880s was first raised as the national flag in 1918 and restored in 1990. Blue is the sky, black the soil, and white the purity of snow.
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