Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009e49
- #fcd116
- #ce1126
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 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 black star symbolises the leadership of the PAIGC, with its colour representing the people of Africa.
Flag of Guinea-Bissau on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The PAIGC adopted the design in 1961, echoing the Pan-African colours already used by neighbouring Ghana and Guinea, and adding the Black Star of Africa, an established symbol of anti-colonial resistance; Guinea-Bissau took it on the day it proclaimed independence from Portugal, 24 September 1973, with the party's initials gone. The star symbolises the leadership of the PAIGC and its colour the people of Africa; yellow and green correspond to the northern savannas and the southern forests, and the red bar at the hoist represents the country's position on the West coast of Africa.
Drafted from Flag of Guinea-Bissau 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-Bissau is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
From Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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