Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #008751
- #e8112d
- #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.
- 2 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
What we know about it
Chosen on November 16, 1959, it was unchanged when Dahomey became independent on August 1, 1960; the People's Republic of Benin instituted a different one in 1975, and the original was reinstated on August 1, 1990. As stated in the national anthem, the green represents the hope of a new democracy; the red is the courage of the ancestors and the yellow the treasures of the nation.
Drafted from Flag of Benin 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 days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 2 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. Benin is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Drawn by User:SKopp, rewritten by User:Gabbe
From Flag of Benin.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
