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Flag of the Central African Republic

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Français : Drapeau de la République centrafricaine
العربية: علم جمهورية أفريقيا الوسطى
Dansk: Flag af den Central Afrikanske Republik
Deutsch: Die Flagge der Zentralafrikanischen Republik
English: Flag of the Central African Republic
Esperanto: Flago de la Centr-Afrika Respubliko
Italiano: Bandiera della Repubblica Centrafricana.
Nederlands: Vlag van de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek
Slovenščina: Državna zastava Srednjeafriške republike
Svenska: Centralafrikanska republikens flagga
English: The proportions of this flag are 3:2; however, there is no official definition for the correct proportions and also 5:3 is widely used.

Bleu : le Congo et l'océan qui le berce, (blue : Congo and the ocean that border it)
Blanc : le Chad et son coton, (white : Chad and its cotton)
Vert : le Gabon et ses forêts, (green : Gabon and its forests)
Or : le Centrafrique et ses richesses minières, (gold : Centrafrica and its mine resources)
Rouge : le sang versé par tous les martyrs, (red, the blood poored by all the martyrs)
L'étoile guidant les pas du peuple noir vers la liberté et l'émancipation (the star leading the steps of black people towards liberty and emancipation).

Ces quatre pays sont les anciennes colonies de l'AEF (those four nations are the former colonies of the French Equatorial Africa).
Date 1958-present
Source Own work. This vector image was generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:Flag of the Central African Republic (construction sheet).svg.
Author User:Nightstallion
Permission
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Public domain This work was first published in the Central African Republic and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Order No. 85,002 on copyright, enacted 1985 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
  • It is an anonymous work, pseudonymous or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a photographic work or a work of applied art and 20 and years have passed since the date of its creation
  • It is a sound recording, a cinematographic or audiovisual work, and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
  • It is one of "laws, official texts of administrative or judical nature, or to the official translations thereof"
This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
Insignia This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.
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  • ratio 2:3 (this file)
    ratio 2:3
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  • ratio 3:5
    ratio 3:5


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Colours scheme

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Blue White Green Yellow Red
RGB 0/48/130 255/255/255 40/151/40 255/206/0 210/16/52
Hexadecimal #003082ff #FFFFFFFF #289728ff #ffce00ff #d21034ff
CMYK 100/63/0/49 0/0/0/0 74/0/74/41 0/19/100/0 0/92/75/18

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current21:31, 24 October 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:31, 24 October 2021900 × 600 (400 bytes)MapGrid (talk | contribs)Setting star diameter to exactly 9/40 of the width of the flag. See File:Flag of the Central African Republic (construction sheet).svg.
02:22, 1 October 2019Thumbnail for version as of 02:22, 1 October 2019900 × 600 (392 bytes)MapGrid (talk | contribs)Fixed some very minor asymmetry in the star. Restored line feed characters; please don't remove them again.
17:07, 4 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 17:07, 4 January 2019900 × 600 (375 bytes)FDRMRZUSA (talk | contribs)Reduced size (compressed).
15:41, 4 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 15:41, 4 January 2019900 × 600 (438 bytes)Tcfc2349 (talk | contribs)reduce size
14:51, 4 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 14:51, 4 January 2019900 × 600 (2 KB)FDRMRZUSA (talk | contribs)Higher svg resolution from same file: resized by "Inkscape". Same proportion: 2:3.
19:02, 13 October 2015Thumbnail for version as of 19:02, 13 October 2015450 × 300 (489 bytes)CemDemirkartal (talk | contribs)Rewritten the code for better result
03:43, 5 August 2011Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 5 August 2011450 × 300 (689 bytes)OAlexander~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Cleaned up Code; more manageable nominal size; added viewBox and "title"-tag.
20:11, 21 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 20:11, 21 March 20111,200 × 800 (2 KB)Fry1989 (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 18:37, 17 February 2006 please provide a source, I can't find any with that ratio
15:04, 21 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:04, 21 March 20111,334 × 800 (3 KB)Dxerty (talk | contribs)Ratio corrected
18:37, 17 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 18:37, 17 February 20061,200 × 800 (2 KB)Vzb83~commonswiki (talk | contribs)rewritten the code
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