Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009460
- #ce1126
- #fcd116
Other flags with red, green or yellow or all of red, green and yellow at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 vertical bands
The foot changes colour going along, the fly edge does not, and every change is a straight line top to bottom.
What we know about it
The country's first Constitution, published on 10 November 1958, brought the flag with it, and it takes its colours from the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, which had derived them in turn from Ghana's flag. Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's first President, Sékou Touré, were close associates. By Touré's account red carries the blood of anti-colonialist martyrs, the working classes' labour and the wish for progress; yellow is Guinean gold and the sun; green is the vegetation and the difficult life of the masses who live in the countryside, the three corresponding to the national motto, Travail, Justice, Solidarité.
Drafted from Flag of Guinea 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.
Pan-African Colors
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Guinea is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
From Flag of Guinea.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
