Capital

Bangui

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1958

Designer

Barthélemy Boganda

Central African Republic

Colors and meaning

• Blue #003082

  Progress and freedom

• White #FFFFFF

  Peace, honesty and dignity

• Green #289728

  Hope, faith and the country's forests

• Yellow #FFCE00

  Tolerance

• Red #D21034

  The blood shared by humanity, and by the country's inhabitants

Symbolism and history

Four horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow are crossed by a single vertical red stripe, with a yellow star in the canton. Designer Barthélemy Boganda deliberately mixed the blue-white-red of France with the pan-African colors to symbolize both cooperation with France and African emancipation.

No documented visual overlap

Central African Republic’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Africa, for browsing:

• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia

Further reading: Flag of Central African Republic on Wikipedia