Central African Republic Flag

How to identify it

Four horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow crossed vertically by a red stripe down the middle, with a yellow star in the upper flagpole corner.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

Designed by Barthélemy Boganda and adopted 1 December 1958, when the autonomous Central African Republic was proclaimed, two years before full independence from France.

Construction

Four horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow, crossed vertically by a red band down the centre, with a yellow five-pointed star in the upper hoist corner.

Officially documented meaning

Boganda designed the flag to combine the French tricolour's blue and white with pan-African green and yellow, joined by a red band he described as symbolising "the blood of humanity" shared by Europeans and Africans; the star represents independence and African unity.

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