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Ghana Flag
Ghana’s flag is a horizontal red, gold, and green tricolour with a black five-pointed star on the gold stripe. Ghana’s Permanent Mission to the United N...
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About Ghana and its flag
Ghana’s flag is a horizontal red, gold, and green tricolour with a black five-pointed star on the gold stripe. Ghana’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations identifies it as a 1957 design by Theodosia Okoh and describes the black star as a symbol of African emancipation.
Flag design and meaning
Three equal horizontal bands run red at the top, gold in the middle, and green at the bottom. A single black five-pointed star is centred on the gold band, producing a simple tricolour whose central charge is its most immediate identifying feature.
- Red, gold, green, and the black star: Ghana’s Permanent Mission says red represents people who died in the independence struggle, gold the country’s mineral wealth, green its forests and natural wealth, and the black star African emancipation.
History and adoption
Ghana's UN Mission says the design was adopted in 1957 and reinstated in 1966. The 1960 Constitution and a 1964 amendment record a separate constitutional period in which the middle stripe was white. These documents support describing the change in the flag's legal text without assigning an unsupported single discontinuation date to the original tricolour.
How to recognise this flag
- Look for the single black five-pointed star centred in the gold middle band.
- Check that the red, gold, and green bands are horizontal and equal in height.
Ghana flag quiz context
On Name The Flag, the Ghana flag is currently grouped as medium difficulty for quiz progression.
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