Flag of Yugoslavia
Officially Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Locally Jugoslavija
What the flag looks like
Three equal horizontal stripes of blue, white and red, with a large red five-pointed star edged in gold in the center, overlapping all three stripes.
What it means
Blue, white and red are the Pan-Slavic colors, and the red star stood for socialism and the partisan struggle of the Second World War.
How to remember it
Socialist Yugoslavia
is a blue-white-red tricolor with one big gold-edged red star spanning all three stripes.
Fun facts
- The same tricolor without the star was the flag of the earlier Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
- Yugoslavia was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, whose first summit was held in Belgrade in 1961.
Yugoslavia at a glance
- Existed
- 1945–1992
- Flag used
- 1946–1992
- Today
- Seven states, from Slovenia to North Macedonia
- Capital
- Belgrade
- Region
- 1945–1992
- Languages
- Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
- Currency
- Yugoslav dinar
- Flag adopted
- 1946