Ethiopia Flag

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa and bordered by Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, and Sudan. Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa and their official language is Amharic.

They adopted the current flag of Ethiopia on February 6, 1996. The flag of Ethiopia is a tricolor flag with equal sized stripes running horizontally. The red, green, and yellow colors on the Ethiopian flag are the African unity colors. In 1897, at the Battle of Adwa, where Ethiopia successfully defended itself from colonial Italy, they used the red, green and yellow on the Ethiopian flags. Since the early nineteenth century, the Ethiopia flags tricolor existed and was originally the Royal House of Ethiopia’s official banner. On the centre yellow stripe of the Royal Ethiopia flag, it often had an emblem with a crowned lion, or Lion of Judah, which carried a cross. They linked the nation, peoples, and Ethiopian church on the Ethiopian flag.

On the current flag of Ethiopia, the red stripe is horizontal across the bottom but in the mid nineteenth century, the red stripe was across the top. In 1996, they added the emblem to the Ethiopian flag. On a picture of the Ethiopian flag, the colors meaning varies as people have several points of view. Normally, red symbolizes the Ethiopia blood spilled defending their land and power. Yellow on the flags of Ethiopia represent harmony and peace between Ethiopia’s religious and ethnic groups. The green on the Ethiopia flag represents the fertility of Ethiopia’s land. Many African nations adopted the red, yellow and green colors, known as Pan-African, once freed from colonial rulers.

According to the big picture of Ethiopia flag information, before 1966 and even in places today, people see the commonly used horizontal striped tricolor flag with no emblems, nation and worldwide. They experimented with several different flag emblems during the Derg regime but the basic colors have remained changeless. After Haile Selassie’s overthrow, even the tyrannical Derg never changed the color scheme but simply changed and removed the imperial emblem.

On the tricolor green, yellow, red striped flag, a blue circle sits centered in the middle of the Ethiopia flag. Inside the blue circle is a yellow star also known as a pentagram. On Ethiopia flag coloring pages, the Ethiopia flag is often seen with and without the blue star emblem.