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The national flag of Rwanda is a horizontal tricolour of light blue, yellow, and green, in a 2:1:1 ratio, charged with a golden sun in the upper fly-side corner. It was adopted on 31 December 2001 and replaced the flag adopted shortly before independence.
Flag Date Use Description 1962–2001: Second flag of the Republic of Rwanda: A vertical Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Green with a black R letter in the center. [12] [13] 1959–1961: First flag of the Republic of Rwanda: A vertical Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Green. [14] [15] 1926–1945: First flag of the Belgian Congo [16] 1916–1959: Flag ...
The Emblem of Rwanda is the national symbol and used by the Government of Rwanda. It was restyled in 2001 to match the color scheme of the new national flag . The text reads "Republic of Rwanda – Unity, Work, Patriotism" in Kinyarwanda .
The Community Emblem Act, 2003 sets out the symbolism behind the flag. [2] Blue: Lake Victoria signifying the unity of the EAC Partner States. White, Black, Green, Yellow, Red: Representing the different colours of the flags of each of the EAC Partner States. Handshake: East African Community. Centre: Emblem of the East African Community.
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National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
It uses U+1F3F4 WAVING BLACK FLAG and formatting tag characters instead of regional indicator symbols. It is based on ISO 3166-2 regions with hyphen removed and lowercase, e.g. GB-ENG → gbeng, terminating with U+E007F CANCEL TAG. Flag of England is therefore represented by a sequence U+1F3F4, U+E0067, U+E0062, U+E0065, U+E006E, U+E0067, U+E007F.
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