Senegal
Shape
Africa · Western Africa
Outline not to scale
About the flag
Senegal's flag has three vertical bands of green, yellow and red, with a green five-pointed star in the centre. It uses the pan-African colours: green is linked to hope, yellow to wealth and the arts, and red to life and the sacrifices of the nation. It was adopted in 1960.
Often confused with
Cameroon's middle band is red with a yellow star, and its order is green, red, yellow.
Guinea's flag has no star, and its bands run red, yellow, green.
Mali's flag is the same as Senegal's without the star.
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