Flag of Estonia

The flag of Estonia consists of three equal horizontal bands, with a blue top, including one black, one white and bottom band. When the flag is hung vertically, the blue track links. 

Estonian Flag Meaning

The original interpretation of the colors was the following:

* Blue represents the sky, the lakes and the sea of Estonia, and symbolizes the nationalist ideas of the country;
* Black is the color of the soil of the homeland;
* White represents the aspirations of the people to happiness and light.

The flag is a tricolor with three jobs and an equally high aspect ratio of 7:11. The minimum size is 105×165 cm. Only the design of the service and maritime war flag is different: it shows the arms of Estonia and has a swallow tail.

The blue in the flag is Pantone 285C in the coding, it is CMYK 91-43-0-0.
Flag of Estonia Scandinavian Cross

In 2001, the politician Kaarel Tarand for the change of a tricolor flag in a Nordic Cross flag design, the same colors as the current flag. Supporters of this design thought to claim that the current flag, respect the Estonia gave an a post-Soviet state with a flag used many times in Eastern Europe, while a Scandinavian Cross link to the Nordic countries could give back.
Estonians consider themselves more to the Scandinavian than to belong to the Baltic, their culture and history would fit well with countries such as Sweden, Denmark and part of Finland. From a Baltic culture would also be no question, other Baltic States have a major impact gekent of the medieval German knight Orders, so up to Konigsberg and Memelland to it. In December 1999 this was the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (and current president since 2006) Toomas Hendrik Ilves in a speech made from the cloth called “Estonia as a Nordic Country” Swedish Institute of International Relations.

Others also see a change in the official country name in the international traffic is down. The working name of Estonia would be adjusted in Estonia, the name which other countries with a Germanic language, Estonia know. Several Nordic Cross-models were created since 1919, when the official state flag was designed and selected. In 1919, this alternative was to lose out to the current flag.
[edit] History
Estonian flag on the parliament building
The blue-black-white flag

The flag was first developed as the flag of the Estonian University Student Association at the University of Tartu. The flag was then associated with Estonian nationalism and was used as the national flag when the country became independent on February 24, 1918, officially from November 21, 1918.

The invasion by the Soviet Union in June 1940 led to the banning of the flag. The flag was removed from the tower of Pikk Hermann on June 21, 1940, Estonia was still independent. On June 22, the flag with the Flag of the Soviet Union used to it on June 27 was removed.

During the German occupation of 1941-1944 the flag was accepted as the ethnic flag of Estonia, but not the national flag. After the independence of Estonia in September 1944 the Estonian flag was hoisted back. On September 22 the red flag was hoisted again, and not much later removed the Estonian flag again.

The flag was banned until the perestroika in the late 1980s. On February 24, 1989 the flag was hoisted back on the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn. The flag was adopted as national flag back on August 7, 1990, not long back independence for Estonia.