ESTONIA

The national flag of Estonia is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white. In Estonian it is colloquially called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white") , after the colours of the bands. The tricolor was first adopted by students in 1881 during uprisings against occupying Russian Tsarist forces. It was readopted as the national flag in 1990 just prior to independence. The colors represent Estonian history, folk costumes, and landscape.