Village flag
Embo (Sutherland)
- Flag type
- Village flag
- Flag date
- 12 September 2025 (originally 16 July 1988)
- Designer
- Liz (née Gill) Robertson, Jeanette (McGrath) Cumming, Christine (Gill) Mackay
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Red 186Gold 1235Blue 300Black
- Certification
- Letters Patent (Lord Lyon)
About the flag
The Embo Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this historic Scottish village.
The origins of the flag date from 16 July 1988, when the village declared UDI as an ‘Independent State', flying a horizontal tricolour of red, gold and blue.
Red represents its Viking heritage; gold, the sun and sand; blue, the sea and sky.
On 16 July 1989 the village held its own Olympics, inviting countries with flags that use these same colours.
The new Embo flag uses the tricolour and adds a central image of a black anchor.
This references a local landmark, originally washed up from a Prussian wreck in the 1870s.
