Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #006400
- #ffd200
- #d40000
- #ffffff
- #000000
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 7 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
red ones · white ones · green ones · yellow ones · black ones
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 Zimbabwe consists of seven even horizontal stripes of green, gold, red and black with a white triangle containing a red five-pointed star with a Zimbabwe Bird.
Flag of Zimbabwe on Wikipedia
- bird
The national flag of Zimbabwe consists of seven even horizontal stripes of green, gold, red and black with a white triangle containing a red five-pointed star with a Zimbabwe Bird.
Flag of Zimbabwe on Wikipedia
What we know about it
An unspecified designer handed the draft to Richard Hove, the Minister of Public Works, and the Zimbabwe Bird, missing from the initial design, was added at Cederic Herbert's suggestion; Robert Mugabe, then Prime Minister-elect, saw the final draft, and the flag was adopted on 18 April 1980. The soapstone bird is a statuette found at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, first used in 1924 on the Southern Rhodesian coat of arms; the star beneath it is officially the nation's aspirations, though it is commonly thought to stand for communism and socialism, and with the revolutionary struggle for freedom and peace.
Drafted from Flag of Zimbabwe 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. Zimbabwe is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of Zimbabwe.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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