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Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar: 13 horizontal stripes. 4 red, 4 green, 2 white and 3 yellow with 8 green crescent moons. 3 in the superior and inferior yellow stripes and 2 in the central yellow stripe. 1896–1963: Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar (British protectorate) a simple red field. [8] 1963–1964: Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar
Tanzanian flag at the University of Dar es Salaam Mountaineer Alex Nyirenda atop Uhuru Peak with Tanganyika flag, on a Tanganyika stamp. The national flag of Tanzania (bendera ya Tanzania) consists of a gold-edged black bend, divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner, with a green upper triangle and light blue lower triangle.
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The flag's design is taken from the flag of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, while the Pan-African colours of yellow, green, red and black are taken from the flag of Ghana. 1959–present: Flag of Ivory Coast: The flag is a vertical tricolour of orange, white and green. 1963–present: Flag of Kenya
The name of the territory was taken from the large lake in its west. Henry Morton Stanley had found the name of "Tanganika", when he travelled to Ujiji in 1876. He wrote that the locals were not sure about its meaning and conjectured that it meant something like "the great lake spreading out like a plain", or "plain-like lake".
Simplified svg internal structure (truncated "Yellow-edged black diagonal band" in excess of flag border by "clip" function of "Inkscape": better flag management). Same file and same image. Optimized and fixed svg code before upload. No other changes. 17:49, 19 January 2014: 900 × 600 (328 bytes) SiBr4
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