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Africa

Zimbabwe

Ratio: 1:2 Adopted: April 18, 1980 Usage: National and Civil

Green,
The national yellow, red,
bird of and black are
Zimbabwe the colors
of zanu
and pan-
Africanism

Black represents the new leaders,
and white, their desire for peace

Africa
Mozambique
Zambia Zimbabwe, the name of an ancient African city,
ZIMBABWE is now applied to the whole country, which was
ZIMBABWE
Botswana Souu u uth
Afrii i ica formerly known as Rhodesia.
The Zimbabwe African National triangle with a black edge,
Union (zanu) led the struggle for symbolizing new leaders and their
self-determination in the 1970s, desire for peace. Within this is the
and its flag was used as the basis for Zimbabwe bird on a red star.
the new national flag. The zanu
flag is composed of concentric THE ZIMBABWE BIRD
panels of green, yellow, red, with The bird is representative of birds
a central black panel; the colors of found in the ruins of the ancient
pan-Africanism. The national flag city of Zimbabwe and has been a
has these colors simply arranged local symbol since 1924. The star
in stripes. Toward the hoist is a white stands for an international outlook.
EMBLEM OF ZIMBABWE

The star represents the
country’s international
The Zimbabwe bird
outlook
A representation of the
ancient city of Zimbabwe

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