Flag of Seychelles

🎨 What the flag means

Seychelles' flag has five slanted bands of blue, yellow, red, white and green that spread out from one corner. They show a young country moving into the future. Blue is the sky and sea, yellow the sun that gives light and life, red the people working together in unity and love, white fairness and harmony, and green the land and nature.

📊 Quick facts

👥 Population

119.8 thousand (2023)

🏙️ Capital

Victoria24.7 thousand people (2014)

🗣️ Main language

FrenchAlso official: Seselwa Creole French, English

✨ 3 fun facts

1. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa, made up of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean.
2. The coco de mer palm grows wild only on two Seychelles islands, Praslin and Curieuse, and makes the world's heaviest seed.
3. The main Seychelles islands are made of granite that was once squeezed between Madagascar and India, long before the continents drifted apart.