Eritrea Flag

The State of Eritrea is located in northern East Africa and bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, and Djibouti with east, northeast Eritrea on the Red Sea coastline. Their largest city and capital is Asmara. On May 24, 1993, Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia.

On December 5, 1995, the State of Eritrea adapted their current Eritrea flag, which made it one of the newest national flags of the world. The basic layout of the flag of Eritrea is the same as the Eritrea People’s Liberation Front flag, which is an upright olive branch, centered in a wreath. This descended from their flag of 1952. A red triangle dominates the flag of Eritrea and extends the entire length of the hoist or left side of the Eritrean flag, with the point of the triangle centered in the middle on the fly edge. It has a green triangle on the top half of the fly side extending to the top corner on the hoist side. On Eritrea flags, there is a blue triangle on the lower half of the fly side extending to the bottom corner on the hoist side.

The green on Eritrean flags represents their livestock, agricultural economy, and the countries fertile lands while the red on the flag of Eritrea symbolizes the blood shed during their independence struggles. The blue color on Eritrean flags stands for marine wealth and the ocean and the yellow symbolizes Eritrea’s mineral wealth. The upright olive branch and olive wreath originate from the first Eritrean flag flown from 1952 to 1959. Acquired from the United Nations flag, the olive wreath symbolizes peace.

Eritrea flag etiquette is very rigid and requires that Eritrean flag rules and protocols Eritrea follow these properly. All nations including Eritrea have basic flag rules. In order of precedence, the Eritrea flags are the National flag of Eritrea, the state flag of Eritrea, the military flag of Eritrea, in creation date order and then the other Eritrea flags. When presenting the Eritrea flag or any other national flag, the United Nations goes by alphabetical order, which ensures they show no precedence to any flag. Never drag the flag of Eritrea on the ground and replace any faded or torn Eritrean flags with new flags. Hoist the Eritrea flag briskly but lower the Eritrea flag ceremoniously. In most countries, flying a flag upside down denotes distress.