What is special about the yellow stripe of the Spanish flag?
Sources: 1 link, read on 21 October 2026.
Spanish Constitution, article 4 (BOE, consolidated text), read on 21 October 2026.
Answer: It is twice as wide as each red stripe. The flag has three horizontal stripes: red, yellow, red (Article 4). Memory hook: yellow in the middle, and the widest.
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Constitution · article 4.1
The question in Spanish
¿Qué tiene de especial la franja amarilla de la bandera de España?
The options
- AIt is thinner than the red stripesEs más estrecha que las franjas rojas
- BIt is at the topEstá en la parte superior
- CIt is twice as wide as each red stripeTiene el doble de anchura que cada franja rojaCorrect
What the Constitution says
«1. La bandera de España está formada por tres franjas horizontales, roja, amarilla y roja, siendo la amarilla de doble anchura que cada una de las rojas.»
Spanish Constitution of 1978, article 4 (paragraph 1, consolidated text at the BOE), read on 21 October 2026. The quotation is in Spanish, as the BOE prints it; the English wording of the answer is ours. Laws carry no copyright (Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, art. 13), so we quote the text as it stands.
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