Assorted African Flags Guide

Here we have an interesting guide created by the very talented Reddit user called Udzu that features a selection of some of the best African flags for you to check out. Most of the flags in the design are current but there are a few historic ones and for most of them you can see the area and country they are from.

 

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And here we have some nice big pictures of the flags of Africa in the guide along with a little bit of information from Wikipedia about them or the places they are from with links to where you can find more.

 

Flag of the African Union

 

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The current flag of the African Union was adopted at its 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, which took place in Addis Ababa on 31 January 2010. (More info)

 

Flag of Alexandria

 

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Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile River Delta. (More info)

 

Flag of Cairo

 

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Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. (More info)

 

Flag of Damietta

 

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Damietta is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Mediterranean Sea, and about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cairo. (More info)

 

Berber Flag

 

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The Berber flag or Amazigh flag is an ethnic flag used as a common symbol of related ethnic groups in North Africa. The flag was created to symbolise culture, but with the rise of Berberism it also began to be used in political contexts. (More info)

 

Flag of Ambazonia

 

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The national flag of the unrecognized Ambazonia is used by Ambazonian separatists. Originally designed and adopted by the Southern Cameroons National Council in 1999, it has since been universally embraced by Ambazonian separatist movements. (More info)

 

Flag of Western Togoland

 

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Western Togoland is a self-proclaimed state which is considered by the international community to be part of Ghana. It claims five of the Volta and Oti Regions. (More info)

 

Ashanti Flag

 

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The Ashanti flag is the flag of the Ashanti people. It depicts the Golden Stool (Ashanti: Sika' dwa), the throne of the Asantehene. (More info)

 

Flag of Akwa Ibom State

 

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Akwa Ibom is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It borders Cross River State to the east, Rivers State and Abia State to the west and north-west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. (More info)

 

Flag of Osun State

 

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Osun, is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states for 84 km and for 78 km respectively. (More info)

 

Flag of Kiambu County

 

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Kiambu County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the Mount Kenya region of Kenya. Its capital is Kiambu and its largest town is Thika town. (More info)

 

Flag of Kilifi County

 

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Kilifi County is a County Located in the Kenyan coast. It was formed in 2010 as a result of a merger of Kilifi District and Malindi District, Kenya. (More info)

 

Flag of Meru County

 

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Meru County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the former Eastern Province. Meru County has a population of 1.35 million people. It is home to the Meru people. (More info)

 

Flag of Nakuru County

 

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Nakuru County is a county in Kenya. It is county number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan counties. Nakuru County is a host to Kenya's Fourth City – Nakuru City. (More info)

 

Flag of Wajir County

 

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Wajir County is a county in the former North Eastern Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Wajir. The county had a population of 781,263 during the 2019 Census. (More info)

 

Flag of Kinshasa 1967 - 2011

 

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Kinshasa, formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (More info)

 

Flag of Durban

 

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Durban is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. (More info)

 

Flag of Mpumalanga

 

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The provincial flag of Mpumalanga was adopted in 1996, making the province the first of South Africa's nine provinces to make use of an official provincial flag. (More info)

 

Flag of Kitwe

 

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Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development (after Lusaka and Ndola) and second largest city in terms of size and population (after Lusaka) in Zambia. (More info)

 

Flag of Harare

 

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The flag of Harare is the civil flag for the capital city of Zimbabwe. The flag was adopted on 18 April 1982, when the capital city of Zimbabwe was renamed Harare from the original, Salisbury. (More info)

 

Flag of Dahomey 1818–1858

 

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The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. (More info)

 

Flag of the Kingdom of Loango 1550-1883

 

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The Kingdom of Loango was a pre-colonial African Kongo state, during approximately the 16th to 19th centuries in what is now the western part of the Republic of the Congo. (More info)

 

Flag of the Republic of the Rif 1921-1926

 

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The Republic of the Rif was a confederate republic in the Rif, Morocco, that existed between 1921 and 1926. (More info)

 

Flag of the Mali Federation 1959-1961

 

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The Mali Federation was a federation in West Africa linking the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (or French Sudan) for two months in 1960. (More info)

 

Flag of Zaire 1971-1997

 

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Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa. (More info)