Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009739
- #dc241f
- #ffd100
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.
- 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
Adopted on 15 September 1959, the flag replaced the French Tricolour and was unchanged when the country became independent on 15 August 1960. The People's Republic of the Congo changed it in 1970 to a red field carrying a new coat of arms, and the National Conference reinstated this one on 10 June 1991. The green stands for the agriculture and forests of the Congo and the yellow for the friendship and nobility of the Congolese people; the symbolism behind the red was left unexplained.
Drafted from Flag of the Republic of the Congo 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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Republic of the Congo is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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