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Encyclopedia > Flag of Rwanda
 Flag ratio: 2:3
Flag ratio: 2:3
Old flag of Rwanda (1962-2001)
Old flag of Rwanda (1962-2001)

The new flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001. Image File history File links Flag_of_Rwanda. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Rwanda. ... Image File history File links FIAV_111000. ... Image File history File links Flag_Rwanda_1962. ... Image File history File links Flag_Rwanda_1962. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The flag has four colours: blue, green, and two forms of yellow (standard yellow for the middle band and what the Pantone system calls "sun yellow" for the sun); the difference between the two yellows is barely noticeable. Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... YOU SUCK!!!!! ... Mossy, green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... A yellow Tulip. ... For the record label, see Pantone Music. ...


Previous flag

Rwanda's previous flag was a red-yellow-green tricolour with a large black letter 'R' (to distinguish it from the otherwise identical Flag of Guinea). Derived from the flag of Ethiopia, the colours green, yellow and red represented peace; the nation's hope for future development; and the people. The flag was changed because it had become associated with the brutality of the Rwandan Genocide [1]. French tricolour flag A tricolour is a flag or banner having three colours, usually in approximately equal size (horizontally or vertically) and lacking additional symbols. ... Look up R, r in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Guinea was adopted on November 10, 1958. ... Flag ratio: 1:2 The old flag, which was used from 1975 to 1987 and 1991 to 1996, and is still seen occasionally today. ... Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass extermination of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu sympathizers in Rwanda and was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War. ...




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Flag of Rwanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (188 words)
The new flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001.
The flag has four colours: blue, green, and two forms of yellow (standard yellow for the middle band and what the Pantone system calls "sun yellow" for the sun); the difference between the two yellows is barely noticeable.
Rwanda's previous flag was a red-yellow-green tricolour with a large letter 'R' to distinguish it from the otherwise identical Flag of Guinea.
Rwanda (1166 words)
The new flag of the Rwandan republic is composed of three colours: green, yellow and blue.
The image of the flag seems to have 1:2 ratio but the sun is a little bit horizontally elliptical - so I guess the image is somewhat distorted, elongated horizontally, so that the sun should in fact be circular and the flag ratio ~2:3.
Rwandans have long held that the flag should be replaced as the colour red is associated with bloodshed that has characterized the country since independence, culminating in the 1994 genocide in which between 500 000 and 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.
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