Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #c60c30
- #1e1e1e
- #fecb00
Other flags with red, yellow or black or all of red, yellow and black at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 2 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
The national flag of Angola is a horizontal bicolour of red and black, charged in the center with a yellow emblem consisting of a machete crossed by a half-cogwheel and crowned with a five-pointed star.
Flag of Angola on Wikipedia
- sword
The national flag of Angola is a horizontal bicolour of red and black, charged in the center with a yellow emblem consisting of a machete crossed by a half-cogwheel and crowned with a five-pointed star.
Flag of Angola on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted on 11 November 1975, the day Angola became independent from Portugal following a thirteen-year war of independence, the flag is credited to Henrique de Carvalho Santos and is based on the flag of the MPLA, the country's ruling party ever since. The machete stands for peasants and agriculture, the half-cogwheel for workers and industry, and the star for international solidarity and progress. In the original 1975 constitution those last words were revolution and internationalism.
Drafted from Flag of Angola on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Its day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one of them, with the sentence that says so.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Angola is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1134 × 756
Credit JohnCStanley
From Flag of Angola using the specifications prescribed in "Manual Simbolos Nacionais", V01.05.2021D.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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