Question

What is represented on the Colombian flag?

Answer 1

Yellow is supposed to represent all the gold found in Columbia, blue is the seashore and red is the bloodshed.

Answer 2

The horizontal stripes (from top to bottom) of yellow, blue and red tricolour have a ratio of 2:1:1. It—together with that of Ecuador, also derived from the flag of Gran Colombia—is different from most other tricolour flags, either vertical or horizontal, in having stripes which are not equal in size. (Venezuela, whose flag is also derived from the same source, opted for a more conventional tricolour with equal stripes).