Flag of Niger

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Prior to independence from French West Africa, the flag of Niger was adapted. The upper orange band represents the northern regions of the Sahara Desert, the center white band represents purity, and the lower green band represents both hope and the fertile regions of southern Niger. The orange circle in the center band represents the sun.

The Flag of India has a passing resemblance, although this is likely to be coincidence. Côte d'Ivoire uses the same colours.

Niger's flag is a tricolour, in common with other former dependencies and colonies of France.

The flag's unusual off-square ratio is of unknown significance.


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French West Africa (French: Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta
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Motto
"Fraternité, Travail, Progrès"   (French)
"Fraternity, Work, Progress"
Anthem
La Nigérienne
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National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before India's independence from the British on 15 August, 1947.
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Motto
"Unity, Discipline and Labour"   (translation)
Anthem
L'Abidjanaise
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tricolour ("three colours") is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided (horizontally, vertically, or, less frequently, diagonally) into three bands of differing colours.
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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flag of Algeria (Arabic: علم الجزائر) consists of two equal vertical stripes, green and white, and in the centre bears a red star and crescent.
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The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half.

Like in some other African countries this flag is a modification of the ruling party's flag.
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The national flag of Benin was originally adopted in 1959. It was changed upon the accession of the Marxist regime in 1975, but upon the removal of the regime, the old design was reintroduced on August 1, 1990.
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The national flag of Botswana was adopted on September 30, 1966. The flag is light blue with a black horizontal band across the centre, with white fimbriation. The stripes are in a ratio of 9:1:4:1:9.
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flag of Burkina Faso is formed by two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a yellow five-pointed star in the center. The colours are the popular Pan-African colours of Ethiopia; however, the red is also said to stand for the socialist revolution, and the green for the
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flag of Burundi was adopted on March 28, 1967. The green colour symbolizes hope, the white symbolises purity, and red the struggle for independence. The flag has a basic white saltire that divides the field into four areas, two green, and two red.
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flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on May 20, 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. The previous flag of Cameroon had a similar colour scheme, but with two stars.
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Flag of Cape Verde was adopted on September 22, 1992 and symbolized a break in relations with Guinea-Bissau, with whom Cape Verde was to unite. The 10 stars on the flag represent the main islands of the nation (a chain of islands off the coast of Africa).
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flag of the Central African Republic was adopted on December 1, 1958. It was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, the first president of the autonomous territory of Oubangui-Chari, who believed that "France and Africa must march together".
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The national flag of the Republic of Chad is a vertical tricolor consisting (left to right) of a blue, a yellow and a red field. The flag colors combine the colors of the flag of France with some traditional Pan-African colors.
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flag of Comoros was adopted in 2003. The former flag was a crescent on a green field. The new design retains the crescent but places it within a green triangle. In addition, four stripes were added to symbolize the four islands of the nation: yellow is for Mohéli, white for Mayotte
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flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was adopted on 20 February 2006. A new constitution, ratified in December 2005 and which came into effect in February 2006, promulgated a return to a flag similar to that flown between 1963 and 1971, with a change from a more royal blue
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flag of the Republic of the Congo was originally adopted on August 18, 1958. It was abandoned in 1970, but then readopted on June 10, 1991. The colors are the traditional Pan-African colors, and stem from the colors of the flag of Ethiopia.
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flag of Djibouti features two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and green with a white isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bearing a red five-pointed star (representing the areas Somalis live in the region) in the centre.
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flag of Egypt (Arabic: علم مصر) in its current form was adopted on October 4, 1984. It depicts Egypt's national emblem, the Eagle of Saladin (a shield superimposed on a golden eagle facing the hoist
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flag of Equatorial Guinea was adopted on August 21, 1979.

The flag is a horizontal tricolor, with green, white and red stripes and a blue triangle at its left side.
  • Green symbolizes the natural resources and jungles of the country.

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flag of Eritrea was adopted on December 5, 1995, and uses the basic layout of the flag of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, with the wreath with upright olive branch symbol derived from the 1952 flag.
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Flag of Ethiopia was adopted on February 6, 1996.

The colours of African unity - red, green, yellow - are seen here on one of the oldest African flags. These colours were used for the national flag of Ethiopia in 1897, a year after Ethiopia decisively defended itself from
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The flag of Gabon was adopted in 1960. The colours on the flag are green, representing the forests; gold, representing the equator; and blue, representing the sea.[1]

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The national flag of Gambia consists of a horizontal tricolour of red, blue and green. The colours are separated by white stripes. The red at the top symbolises the sun, as well as the savanna. Below the red is blue that symbolises the Gambia River that flows through the nation.
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flag of Ghana was adopted in 1957. It was replaced with a variant with a white stripe in the middle from 1964 to 1966.

The flag was designed by Mrs. Theodosia Okoh to replace the flag of the United Kingdom upon attainment of independence in 1957.
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The flag of Guinea was adopted on November 10, 1958.

In keeping with other flags in the region, the Pan-African movement's colours of red, yellow, and green are used. As a former French colony it may be no coincidence that the design is a tricolour.
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