Mali
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Africa · Western Africa
Outline not to scale
About the flag
Mali's flag is three vertical bands of green, yellow and red, with green at the flagpole. It uses the pan-African colours and was adopted in 1961, after a black figure was removed from the earlier version. Green is usually read as hope and the land, yellow as purity and mineral wealth, and red as the blood shed for independence.
Often confused with
Guinea uses the same colours in reverse, with red at the flagpole.
Senegal's flag is the same but with a green star in the middle.
Only the names are similar: Malawi is in southern Africa, and its flag has a red rising sun on a black stripe.
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