The national flag of Estonia is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white.
In Estonian it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands.
On 12 December 1918 the flag was raised for the first time as the national symbol atop of the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn.
Each county of Estonia has adopted a flag, each of them conforming to a pattern: a white half at the top bearing the county's coat of arms in the middle, and a green half at the bottom.
For Soviet Estonia, greater Volga, Ural and Siberia, in the name of the third Communist International".