- Capital
- Bamako
- Continent
- Africa
- Flag adopted
- 1961
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Mali
Colors and meaning
Green #14B53A
Hope and the country's Islamic and pan-African heritage
Yellow #FCD116
Purity and mineral wealth
Red #CE1126
The blood of independence
Symbolism and history
A plain vertical green-yellow-red tricolor, adopted after a proposed antelope emblem was dropped when the planned federation with Senegal dissolved months after independence.
Closest-looking flags
Guinea
Nearly identical to Guinea's flag, part of the same pan-African color family that also produced Senegal's and Cameroon's designs.
Ghana
Nearly identical to Guinea's flag, part of the same pan-African color family that also produced Senegal's and Cameroon's designs.
Senegal
Nearly identical to Guinea's flag, part of the same pan-African color family that also produced Senegal's and Cameroon's designs.
Cameroon
Nearly identical to Guinea's flag, part of the same pan-African color family that also produced Senegal's and Cameroon's designs.
Further reading: Flag of Mali on Wikipedia
