Flag

The National Flag is rectangular and is formed by two isosceles triangles, the bases of which are overlapping. One triangle is black and its height is equal to one-third of the length overlapped to the yellow triangle, whose height is equal to half the length of the Flag. In the centre of the black triangle there is a white star of five ends, meaning the light that guides. The white star has one of its ends turned towards the upper right end of the flag. The remaining part of the flag is red.

Yellow - the traces of colonialism in Timor-Leste's history;
Black - the obscurationism that needs to be overcome;
Red - the struggle for national liberation;
White - peace.

in "Constituição da República Democrática de Timor-Leste", Parte 1, Artigo 15º