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Use | National flag, civil and state ensign |
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Proportion | 2:3 |
Adopted | 6 March 1957 |
Design | A horizontal triband of red, gold, and green, charged with a black star in the centre |
Designed by | Theodosia Okoh |
Use | Civil ensign |
Proportion | 2:3 |
Design | A red field with the national flag, fimbriated in black, in the canton |
Use | Naval ensign |
Proportion | 2:3 |
Design | Red St. George's Cross on white centrrensign, with the national flag in canton. |
The national flag of Ghana consists of a horizontal triband of red, yellow, and green. It was designed in replacement of the British Gold Coast's Blue Ensign.[1]
The flag, which was adopted upon the independence of the Dominion of Ghana on March 6, 1957, was designed that same year by Theodosia Okoh, a renowned Ghanaian artist.[2][3][4][5] The flag was flown from the time of Ghana's independence until 1962,[6] then reinstated in 1966 after Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown by coup d'état. in February 1966. The flag of Ghana consists of the Ethiopian Pan-African colors of red, gold, and green in horizontal stripes with a black five-pointed star in the center of the gold stripe. The Ghanaian flag was the second African flag after the flag of the Ethiopian Empire to feature the red, gold, and green colors, although these colors are inverted. The design of the Ghanaian flag influenced the designs of the flags of Guinea-Bissau (1973) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1975).
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