Eastern Africa
Comoros
Four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue with a green hoist triangle bearing a white crescent and four white stars. The current design was adopted in 2002 and incorporates all four traditional island colours.
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Adopted
2002
Proportion
3:5
Colours
5
Colours & their meaning
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Yellow
Represents Mohéli.
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White
Represents Mayotte in the official colour scheme, although Mayotte is administered by France.
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Red
Represents Anjouan.
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Blue
Represents Grande Comore.
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Green
Islam.
Symbols & emblems
Crescent
The crescent represents Islam, the predominant religion.
Four stars
The four stars represent the four islands claimed in the Comorian archipelago.
Did you know?
Comoros is one of the few national flags to explicitly include a colour for Mayotte, which remains a French overseas department.