File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg

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Summary

Description

Français : Drapeau de la République centrafricaine

العربية: علم جمهورية أفريقيا الوسطى

Dansk: Flag af den Central Afrikanske Republik

Deutsch: Die Flagge der Zentralafrikanischen Republik

English: Flag of the Central African Republic

Esperanto: Flago de la Centr-Afrika Respubliko

Italiano: Bandiera della Repubblica Centrafricana.

Nederlands: Vlag van de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek

Slovenščina: Državna zastava Srednjeafriške republike

Svenska: Centralafrikanska republikens flagga

English: The proportions of this flag are 3:2; however, there is no official definition for the correct proportions and also 5:3 is widely used.

Bleu : le Congo et l'océan qui le berce, (blue : Congo and the ocean that border it)
Blanc : le Chad et son coton, (white : Chad and its cotton)
Vert : le Gabon et ses forêts, (green : Gabon and its forests)
Or : le Centrafrique et ses richesses minières, (gold : Centrafrica and its mine resources)
Rouge : le sang versé par tous les martyrs, (red, the blood poored by all the martyrs)
L'étoile guidant les pas du peuple noir vers la liberté et l'émancipation (the star leading the steps of black people towards liberty and emancipation).

Ces quatre pays sont les anciennes colonies de l'AEF (those four nations are the former colonies of the French Equatorial Africa).

Date

1 December 1958

Source

This vector image was generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:Flag of the Central African Republic (construction sheet).svg.

Author

Barthélemy Boganda

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work was first published in the Central African Republic and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Order No. 85,002 on copyright, enacted 1985 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous work, pseudonymous or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is a photographic work or a work of applied art and 20 and years have passed since the date of its creation
It is a sound recording, a cinematographic or audiovisual work, and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "laws, official texts of administrative or judical nature, or to the official translations thereof"

This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Insignia

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

Other versions

ratio 2:3
(this file)
ratio 3:5

It is easy to put a border around this flag image

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[[File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg|border|96x176px]]

Colours scheme

	Blue	White	Green	Yellow	Red
RGB	`0/48/130`	`255/255/255`	`40/151/40`	`255/206/0`	`210/16/52`
Hexadecimal	`#003082ff`	`#FFFFFFFF`	`#289728ff`	`#ffce00ff`	`#d21034ff`
CMYK	`100/63/0/49`	`0/0/0/0`	`74/0/74/41`	`0/19/100/0`	`0/92/75/18`

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:31, 24 October 2021	900 × 600 (400 bytes)	MapGrid	Setting star diameter to exactly 9/40 of the width of the flag. See File:Flag of the Central African Republic (construction sheet).svg.
	02:22, 1 October 2019	900 × 600 (392 bytes)	MapGrid	Fixed some very minor asymmetry in the star. Restored line feed characters; please don't remove them again.
	17:07, 4 January 2019	900 × 600 (375 bytes)	FDRMRZUSA	Reduced size (compressed).
	15:41, 4 January 2019	900 × 600 (438 bytes)	Tcfc2349	reduce size
	14:51, 4 January 2019	900 × 600 (2 KB)	FDRMRZUSA	Higher svg resolution from same file: resized by "Inkscape". Same proportion: 2:3.
	19:02, 13 October 2015	450 × 300 (489 bytes)	CemDemirkartal	Rewritten the code for better result
	03:43, 5 August 2011	450 × 300 (689 bytes)	OAlexander~commonswiki	Cleaned up Code; more manageable nominal size; added viewBox and "title"-tag.
	20:11, 21 March 2011	1,200 × 800 (2 KB)	Fry1989	Reverted to version as of 18:37, 17 February 2006 please provide a source, I can't find any with that ratio
	15:04, 21 March 2011	1,334 × 800 (3 KB)	Dxerty	Ratio corrected
	18:37, 17 February 2006	1,200 × 800 (2 KB)	Vzb83~commonswiki	rewritten the code