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Sierra Leone Flag
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Horizontal Stripes
How to identify it
Three plain horizontal bands of green, white and light blue. Gabon also uses green and blue, but places yellow in the middle instead of white.
Design and construction
- Adoption and legal status
- The green-white-blue tricolour was adopted at independence on 27 April 1961.
History of the design
Its plain horizontal arrangement was selected through the pre-independence heraldic process and has remained unchanged.
Sources
References for the design and any additional notes on this page.
- Sierra Leone: flag history and construction; Flags of the World (FOTW)