A Guide To Flags Featuring Green, Red & Yellow

In today's blog post we have a fascinating guide created by the Facebook page called Civixplorer that features flags that use the colour combination of green, red and yellow for you to check out from countries around the world. The colour green generally represents nature, growth, and wealth. Red symbolises passion, strength, danger and energy. Yellow signifies optimism, cheer, warmth and caution.

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And here we have some bigger pictures of the green, red and yellow flags from the design along with brief descriptions of the flags thanks to Wikipedia with links to where you can get more information.

Flag of Lithuania

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The national flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green and red. It was adopted on the 25th of April 1918 during Lithuania's first period of independence (1918–1940). (More info)

Flag of Senegal

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The national flag of Senegal is a tricolour consisting of three vertical green, yellow and red bands charged with a five-pointed green star at the centre. The flag was adopted in 1960 to replace the flag of the Mali Federation. (More info)

Flag of Burkina Faso

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The national flag of Burkina Faso is formed by two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green, with a yellow five-pointed star resting in the centre. The flag was adopted on the 4th of August 1984. (More info)

Flag of Ethiopia

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The flag of Ethiopia consists of a green, yellow, and red tricolour with the national emblem, a golden pentagram on a blue disc, superimposed at the centre. (More info)

Flag of Portugal

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A 2:3 vertically striped bicolour of green and red, with the lesser coat of arms of Portugal cantered over the colour boundary. The flag was adopted on the 30th of June 1911; 114 years ago. (More info)

Flag of Mauritania

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The national flag of Mauritania is a green field bordered above and below by a horizontal red band and charged in the centre with an upward-pointing golden star and crescent. The flag was adopted on the 25th of October 2017. (More info)

Flag of Mali

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The national flag of Mali is a vertical tricolour of green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag was adopted on the 4th of April 1959. (More info)

Flag of Cameroon

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The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on the 20th of May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolour of green, red and yellow pales, with one yellow five-pointed star in its centre. (More info)

Flag of Togo

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The national flag of Togo consists of five horizontal stripes, alternating between green and yellow, with a red square bearing a five-pointed white star in the canton. The flag was adopted on the 27th of April 1960. (More info)

Flag of Ghana

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The national flag of Ghana consists of a horizontal tri-band of red, yellow, and green with a black five-pointed star in the centre taking up all of the width of the yellow stripe, touching the red and green stripes. (More info)

Flag of Guinea

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The national flag of Guinea is a tri-band of red, yellow, and green. It was adopted on the 10th of November 1958, with the publication of the country's first Constitution. (More info)

Flag of the Republic of the Congo

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The national flag of the Republic of the Congo consists of a yellow diagonal band divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner, with a green upper triangle and red lower triangle. (More info)

Flag of Bolivia

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The national flag of the Plurinational State of Bolivia was originally adopted in 1851. The flag is a horizontal tricolour of red, yellow and green. (More info)

Flag of Grenada

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The flag of Grenada consists of two yellow triangles at the top and bottom and two green triangles at the hoist and fly. These are surrounded by a red border charged with six five-pointed yellow stars – three at the top centre and three at the bottom centre – along with an additional star on a red disc at the centre and a nutmeg at the hoist triangle. (More info)

Flag of Turkmenistan

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The national flag of Turkmenistan features a white crescent and five stars representing the five regions of the country and the Five Pillars of Islam. Placed upon a green field is a symbolic representation of the country's famous carpet industry. (More info)

Flag of Myanmar

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The State Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag of saffron, green and red with a large white five-pointed star in the centre. (More info)