Western Asia

Yemen

A horizontal tricolour of red, white and black. It was adopted in 1990 on the unification of North Yemen and South Yemen and follows the Pan-Arab colour tradition.

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Adopted

1990

Proportion

2:3

Colours

Colours & their meaning

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Red

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally fixed for Yemen’s flag.

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White

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally fixed for Yemen’s flag.

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Black

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally fixed for Yemen’s flag.

Did you know?

Yemen’s flag resembles those of several other Arab states, but unlike some of them it has no added emblem or green band.