Flags of Cameroon

Cameroon is a state is in Tropical Africa. Its capital is Yaunde. The national holiday is on 20 May, and it is a Day of proclamation of republic (1972). In 1961 the former French Cameroon and part of Britannic Cameroon was united in the new state. There is relative stability in Cameroon, that allows normally developing agriculture, roads and railways, and also an oil industry. In spite of the democratic motions, political power confidently remains in the hands of the ethnic oligarchy. Cameroon is often named “the Heart of Africa”.

The flag of the country is tricolour with the vertical isometric bars of green, red and yellow colours. The state flag is a rectangular canvas, parted on three vertical strips of identical sizes - green, red (in the middle) and yellow colours. On a background of a red strip (in the centre) the five-ended star of yellow is placed. Accepted in 1975 the green colour symbolizes the forests of Cameroon and hope, red is independence, and yellow is a sunny savannah. The star means a unity of the country. On the whole the colours of flag of Ghana repeat the colours of the flag of Cameroon. The flag of Cameroon is ratified on 29 May 1975