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The flag of Estonia waving above the Pikk Hermann tower of Toompea Castle in Tallinn.. The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the centre, and white at the bottom.
The national flag of Estonia is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white.The normal size is 105 × 165 cm. In Estonian it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands.
Map from Subdivisions of baltic states.svg by Zotico; Flags from Flag of Estonia.svg, Flag of Latvia.svg and Flag of Lithuania.svg; Combined by Lokal_Profil; Author: Lokal_Profil: Permission (Reusing this file)
The blue-black-white flag was first consecrated at Otepää on 4 June 1884, as the flag of the Estonian University Student Association. During the following years the blue-black-white flag became a national symbol. The flag was already used as state flag on 24 February, when Estonia declared independence.
Estonia, [b] officially the Republic of Estonia, [c] is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. [d] It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia.
Flag of Estonia See also: List of Estonian flags: It was officially re-adopted on 8 May 1990. The story of the flag begins on 17 September 1881, when the constituent Assembly of the first Estonian national student Corps "Vironia" (modern Estonian Students Society) in the city of Tartu was also identified in color; it later became national.
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