The Guinean flag is a vertical tricolour. The used colors in the flag are red, green, yellow. The proportion of the Guinean flag is 2:3. The Flag of Guinea was adopted in 1958.
The national flag of Guinea (French: drapeau de la Guinée) was adopted on 10 November 1958. Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs who died from slavery and wars, yellow represents the sun and the riches of the country, and green the country’s vegetation. In keeping with other flags in the region, the Pan-African movement’s colors of red, yellow, and green are used.
The design is a tricolor. The colors of the flag from left to right are the reverse of the flag of Mali. The previous flag of Rwanda, whose design was inspired by the flag of the Kingdom of Rwanda, had a large black R to make it distinguishable from the near-identical flag of Guinea.
 (1958–present) |
Red | Yellow | Green |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pantone | 186c | 116c | 340c |
| CMYK | 0-0.92-0.82-0.19 | 0-0.17-0.91-0.01 | 1-0-0.35-0.42 |
| RGB | 206-17-38 | 252-209-22 | 0-148-96 |
| Hexadecimal | #CE1126 | #FCD116 | #009460 |
Guinea is named after the Guinea region. Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested tropical regions and ends at the Sahel. The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné, which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited by the Guineus, a generic term for the black African peoples south of the Senegal River, in contrast to the “tawny” Zenaga Berbers above it, whom they called Azenegues or Moors.
