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Central African Republic Flag

The Central African Republic’s national flag combines four horizontal bands with a vertical red bar and a yellow star. A constitutional text published b...

Where is Central African Republic?

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About Central African Republic and its flag

The Central African Republic’s national flag combines four horizontal bands with a vertical red bar and a yellow star. A constitutional text published by the Presidency gives its five-colour construction, while the country’s Embassy in France relates the flag to the Republic’s founding moment in 1958.

Flag design and meaning

From top to bottom, four equal horizontal bands are blue, white, green, and yellow. A red band of equal width crosses them vertically at the centre, creating a strong central division. A single yellow five-pointed star appears in the upper hoist corner, matching the constitutional description.

Yellow star: The Embassy of the Central African Republic in France describes the star as guiding Black people toward freedom and emancipation.
Blue, white, and red: The embassy describes this colour set as drawn from the French flag of the former colonial power.
Green, yellow, and red: The embassy presents this grouping as Pan-African colours connected with Boganda’s wider African federal vision.

History and adoption

The Embassy of the Central African Republic in France states that President Barthélemy Boganda presented the flag to the legislative assembly on 1 December 1958, the day Ubangi-Shari became the Central African Republic. The embassy connects that setting to Boganda’s federal and emancipation ambitions, so 1958 is presented here as the documented presentation date.

How to recognise this flag

Identify the four horizontal stripes—blue, white, green, then yellow—interrupted by one full-height red central bar.
Confirm the single yellow five-pointed star in the upper hoist corner; the flag has no coat of arms or other emblem.