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    Rwanda Flag

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    How to identify it

    Light blue, yellow and green horizontal bands with the blue twice as deep as the others, carrying a golden sun with straight rays in the upper outer corner.

    Design and construction

    Adoption and legal status
    Rwanda adopted the present flag at the end of 2001.

    History of the design

    It replaced the red-yellow-green flag used since 1961, deliberately separating the state’s symbols from the period culminating in the 1994 genocide.

    Sources

    References for the design and any additional notes on this page.