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- Capital
- Harare
- Continent
- Africa
- Flag adopted
- 1980
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Zimbabwe
Colors and meaning
Green #006400
Agriculture and the land
Yellow #FFD200
Mineral wealth
Red #D40000
Blood shed in the liberation war
Black #000000
The people and their heritage
Symbolism and history
Seven horizontal stripes surround a white hoist triangle bearing a red star and the Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone carving motif from the Great Zimbabwe ruins found nowhere else on a national flag.
No documented visual overlap
Zimbabwe’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Africa, for browsing:
Further reading: Flag of Zimbabwe on Wikipedia