Flag of Mali

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Not to be confused with the similarly named and similarly looking Malay tricolour
Republic of Mali
Flag of Mali.svg
Proportion2:3
AdoptedMarch 1, 1961
DesignA vertical tricolour of green, gold and red.
Flag of Mali

The national flag of Mali (French: drapeau du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in reverse order.

Symbolism[]

The green stands for fertility of the land, gold stands for purity and mineral wealth, and the red symbolizes the blood shed for independence from the French. [1]

Color schemes[]

Flag of Mali.svg
(1961–present) 		Green Yellow Red
Pantone 2271c 115c 3546c
CMYK 91-0-100-0 0-9-100-0 0-86-63-0
RGB 20-181-58 252-209-22 206-17-38
Hexadecimal #14B53A #FCD116 #CE1126

History[]

The current flag was adopted on March 1, 1961. The original flag was adopted on April 4, 1959, when Mali joined the Mali Federation. This flag was the same, except the golden stripe had a black kanaga, a shape of a squatter man with arms raised to the sky. The figure was removed due to the opposition, in a country whose population is 90% Muslim, of Islamic fundamentalists[2] (see Aniconism in Islam, the belief against making pictures of the human figure).[3]

  • Reconstruction of the banner used by Musa I on the hajj, possible historic flag of the Mali Empire

  • Flag of French Sudan, a part of French West Africa and precursor to the modern state of Mali (1958-1959)

  • Flag initially adopted on Malian independence, in use from April 4, 1959 until March 1, 1961. A vertical tricolour of green, gold and red with a squatter man (kanaga) in black with arms raised to the sky centered in the gold band.

  • Current flag of Mali in use since March 1, 1961, which removed the kanaga.

References[]

  1. ^ "What Do The Colors And Symbols Of The Flag Of Mali Mean?". WorldAtlas.
  2. ^ "Flag of Mali". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  3. ^ Guide to the Flags of the World by Mauro Talocci, revised and updated by Whitney Smith (ISBN 0-688-01141-1), p. 124.

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