Capital

Accra

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1957

Designer

Theodosia Okoh

Ghana

Colors and meaning

• Red #CE1126

  Blood shed in the struggle for independence

• Yellow #FCD116

  Mineral wealth

• Green #006B3F

  Forests and farmland

Symbolism and history

A red-yellow-green pan-African tricolor with a black five-pointed star at center, the first sub-Saharan flag of this family and the direct model for Guinea's and several other countries' flags at independence.

Closest-looking flags

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  Guinea

  Ghana's black star on a red-yellow-green tricolor was the direct template Guinea adopted a year later, and it shares its palette family with Burkina Faso.

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  Burkina Faso

  Ghana's black star on a red-yellow-green tricolor was the direct template Guinea adopted a year later, and it shares its palette family with Burkina Faso.

Further reading: Flag of Ghana on Wikipedia