Flag of the Seychelles
Officially Republic of Seychelles
Locally Sesel
What the flag looks like
Five oblique bands of blue, yellow, red, white and green fanning out from the lower hoist corner.
What it means
Blue represents the sky and sea, yellow the sun, red the people and their work, white social justice and harmony, and green the land.
How to remember it
The Seychelles
' five colors fan out from the bottom-left corner like rays of sunshine, the only national flag built this way.
Fun facts
- The coco de mer palm, native to the Seychelles, produces the largest and heaviest seed of any plant.
- The Seychelles has the smallest population of any African country, at around 100,000.
Seychelles at a glance
- Capital
- Victoria
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population
- 121,354
- Area
- 452 km²
- Languages
- Seychellois Creole, English, French
- Currency
- Seychellois rupee (SR)
- Flag adopted
- 1996