Western Europe
Germany
A horizontal tricolour of black, red and gold. The colours are linked to 19th-century German liberal and nationalist movements and were adopted for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.
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Adopted
1949
Proportion
3:5
Colours
3
Colours & their meaning
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Black
No official symbolism.
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Red
No official symbolism.
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Gold
No official symbolism.
Did you know?
Black-red-gold was also the flag of the Weimar Republic, while East Germany later added its state emblem to the same tricolour.