The Madeira flag (Portuguese: Bandeira da Madeira) consists of three vertical bands of blue-gold-blue colors with a red-white Christ Cross in the middle. Blue represents the environment that characterizes insularity and represents nobility, beauty, and serenity. Gold reflects the mildness of the archipelago's climate and symbolizes wealth, strength, faith, purity, and constancy. The height-to-width ratio in the flag is 2:3, and the flag was adopted on July 28, 1978.
Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal and an archipelago located in the region of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Funchal, and its population is approximately 253,945 (2019).
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