- Capital
- Conakry
- Continent
- Africa
- Flag adopted
- 1958
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Guinea
Colors and meaning
Red #CE1126
The blood and sacrifice of independence fighters
Yellow #FCD116
The sun and the country's mineral wealth
Green #009460
Vegetation and the Guinean forests
Symbolism and history
A plain vertical red-yellow-green tricolor adopted the year Guinea became the first French West African colony to vote for full independence, deliberately modeled on Ghana's flag as a statement of pan-African solidarity.
Closest-looking flags
Mali
A near-exact match for Mali's flag, differing only in the precise shades used; both derive from the same 1950s pan-African design wave as Ghana.
Ghana
A near-exact match for Mali's flag, differing only in the precise shades used; both derive from the same 1950s pan-African design wave as Ghana.
Burkina Faso
A near-exact match for Mali's flag, differing only in the precise shades used; both derive from the same 1950s pan-African design wave as Ghana.
Chad
A near-exact match for Mali's flag, differing only in the precise shades used; both derive from the same 1950s pan-African design wave as Ghana.
Further reading: Flag of Guinea on Wikipedia
