- Capital
- Addis Ababa
- Continent
- Africa
- Flag adopted
- 1996
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Ethiopia
Colors and meaning
Green #078930
Land and hope, one of the three colors adopted by Ethiopia in the 1890s that later spread across pan-African liberation flags
Yellow #FCDD09
Peace and religious harmony
Red #DA121A
Strength and sacrifice
Symbolism and history
Ethiopia's green-yellow-red horizontal tricolor is the historical source of the pan-African color scheme copied by many later independence flags; a blue disc with a radiating yellow star, added in 1996, represents the diversity and equality of the country's peoples.
Closest-looking flags
Ghana
The source flag for the pan-African green-yellow-red tricolor family used, in various layouts, by Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal.
Mali
The source flag for the pan-African green-yellow-red tricolor family used, in various layouts, by Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal.
Guinea
The source flag for the pan-African green-yellow-red tricolor family used, in various layouts, by Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal.
Cameroon
The source flag for the pan-African green-yellow-red tricolor family used, in various layouts, by Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal.
Senegal
The source flag for the pan-African green-yellow-red tricolor family used, in various layouts, by Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal.
Further reading: Flag of Ethiopia on Wikipedia
