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Republic of Rwanda. 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.
horizontally striped blue-yellow-green national flag. In its upper fly corner is a yellow sun with 24 rays. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is approximately 1 to 2. Under the Belgian colonial regime, the elite Tutsi minority ruled the social, political, and economic life of Rwanda.
The National Flag of Rwanda is a tricolor featuring three horizontal bands of sky blue (top, double-width), yellow, and green. A golden sun with 24 rays is placed near the fly end of the blue band. The blue color symbolizes peace and happiness.
Upon gaining independence in 1962, Rwanda adopted a new flag featuring three horizontal stripes of red, yellow, and green, with a black “R” in the center, which stood for Rwanda but also represented the country’s revolutionary change and the referendum that led to independence.
The flag of Rwanda is composed of three unequal horizontal stripes in blue, yellow and green colors. In the upper right corner of the flag, untraditionally positioned yellow sun is placed.
The flag of Rwanda has three unequal horizontal stripes. The top stripe is light blue. The middle stripe is yellow, and the bottom stripe is green. On the upper fly corner, there is a yellow sun with 24 rays.
The flag of Rwanda consists of three horizontal stripes in the colors of sky blue, yellow, and green, in descending order of width. The sky blue stripe takes up half the flag's area and features a golden sun with 24 rays in the top-right corner.
The flag consists of three horizontal stripes of sky blue (top, double width), yellow, and green. The sky blue color symbolizes peace and happiness, the yellow stripe represents economic development, and the green stripe signifies the hope of prosperity.
The new Rwanda flag was officially adopted on October 25, 2001. It was designed by a local artist. The green is symbolic of the country's prosperity, the yellow is symbolic of potential and real economic development, and the blue is symbolic of happiness and peace.
The Rwandan people must fight for peace which will bring them to durable economic development and happiness. The flag was designed by Alphonse Kirimobenecyo, a Rwandan artist and engineer. The sun and its rays of golden color: It symbolizes the light which enlightens gradually all the people.