Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #00a3dd
- #1eb53a
- #fcd116
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a diagonal division
One straight edge crosses the whole flag at an angle, with one colour all the way down one side of it and another all the way down the other.
What we know about it
Tanganyika became independent on 9 December 1961 with a flag taken from that of TANU, and the last sultan of Zanzibar was overthrown in the Zanzibar Revolution on 12 January 1964; when they united that April, Tanganyika's green and black were retained, Zanzibar's blue with them, and a diagonal design used for distinctiveness, and the combined design was adopted on 30 June 1964. The green alludes to the vegetation and rich agricultural resources of the country, black represents the Swahili people, and the blue epitomizes the Indian Ocean, the lakes and the rivers.
Drafted from Flag of Tanzania 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. Tanzania is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
From Flag of Tanzania.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
