Stripes, panels and diagonals
Benin 🇧🇯
A green panel runs beside the pole, while yellow and red divide the remaining space horizontally. The three colors meet in a T shape.
The Beninese presidency dates the design to 1959. It was replaced in 1975 and restored in 1990.
Portugal 🇵🇹
Portugal divides the background unevenly, giving red more space than green. Yellow appears in the armillary sphere behind the national shield.
The current design was adopted in 1911.
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Yellow, green, red, from top to bottom. Lithuania’s three equal horizontal bands carry no central emblem.
Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬
A broad yellow diagonal cuts between a green upper corner and a red lower corner. Follow it from the lower edge beside the pole toward the upper right.
This is the Republic of the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a different flag, with a blue field.
Guyana 🇬🇾
Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead points away from the pole across a green field. Its layered triangles add two more colors:
- A white edge separates the long gold triangle from green.
- A black edge surrounds the shorter red triangle.
Bolivia 🇧🇴
Bolivia puts red above yellow above green. The version shown here has a coat of arms in the middle; the plain civil flag leaves the bands uninterrupted.
Guinea 🇬🇳
Turn from horizontal bands to vertical ones: Guinea reads red–yellow–green from the pole outward.
Mali 🇲🇱
Mali reverses Guinea’s outer colors: green sits beside the pole, yellow stays in the middle, and red finishes the flag. There is no star on the current national design.
Flags with stars
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
A single yellow star sits across the meeting line of red and green. It is centered on the whole flag, with its upper points on red and lower points on green, as the presidency’s description specifies.
São Tomé and PrÃncipe 🇸🇹
Two black stars appear side by side on a wide yellow band, between narrower green bands. A red triangle reaches inward from the pole.
The stars stand for São Tomé and PrÃncipe, the two main islands of one country.
Mauritania 🇲🇷
The gold crescent curves beneath a star on green, framed by red bands along the top and bottom. Those bands were added in 2017; older illustrations may show only green and gold.
Senegal 🇸🇳
Senegal shares Mali’s green–yellow–red order, but a green star fills the center of its yellow band. Look for that star when telling the two apart.
Grenada 🇬🇩
Grenada packs more detail into its red border and green-and-yellow center:
- Six gold stars sit in the border, with a seventh in a red central disk.
- A nutmeg symbol appears on the green area beside the pole.
The government’s national-symbols page connects the nutmeg to the island’s spice trade.
Ghana 🇬ðŸ‡
The black star is the focal point of Ghana’s red, gold and green horizontal bands. The Ghanaian mission to the UN identifies it as a symbol of African emancipation.
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
A blue disk interrupts Ethiopia’s green, yellow and red horizontal bands. Inside it, a yellow five-pointed emblem has lines extending between its points.
Cameroon 🇨🇲
Cameroon’s yellow star sits on the middle red stripe, between green and yellow outer bands. Senegal places its star on yellow instead.
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For a different three-color combination, compare green, white and red flags. The blue and yellow flags collection includes crosses, disks and stars.
