Flag of Mexico

Mexico

Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	4:7
Adopted	16 September 1968; 56 years ago (1968-09-16)
Design	A vertical tricolor of green, white and red, with the National Coat of Arms centered on the white band.
Designed by	Agustin de Iturbide (Original version) Francisco Eppens Helguera
Use	Naval jack
Proportion	1:1
Design	A diagonal tricolor of white, green, red, with a thin anchor in the center. Three eight-pointed gold stars are in the canton, and the bottom two corners.

The national flag of Mexico (Spanish: bandera nacional de México) is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red with the national coat of arms charged in the center of the white stripe. While the meaning of the colors has changed over time, these three colors were adopted by Mexico following independence from Spain during the country's War of Independence, and subsequent First Mexican Empire.

Red, white, and green are the colors of the national army in Mexico. The central emblem is the Mexican coat of arms, based on the Aztec symbol for Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), the center of the Aztec Empire. It recalls the legend of a golden eagle sitting on a cactus while devouring a serpent that signaled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan.^[1]