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Flag of Ghana
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| Use | National flag and state and naval ensign.  |
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | 1957(readopted 1966) |
| Design | Horizontal tricolour of red, gold, and green, charged with a black five-pointed star in the center of the middle stripe. |
| Designed by | Theodosia Okoh |
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| Use | Civil ensign.  |
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Design | A red field with the national flag, fimbriated in black, in the canton. |
National flag, 1964-1966. Flag ratio: 2:3The flag of Ghana was adopted in 1957. It was replaced with a variant with a white stripe in the middle from 1964 to 1966.
The flag was designed by Mrs. Theodosia Okoh to replace the flag of the United Kingdom upon attainment of independence in 1957. It consists of the Pan-African colours of Ethiopia, i.e., red, gold, and green, in horizontal stripes with a black five-pointed star in the centre of the gold stripe. The Ghanaian flag was the first African flag after the flag of Ethiopia to feature these colours.
The red represents the blood of those who died in the country's struggle for independence, the gold represents the mineral wealth of the country, the green symbolises the country's rich forests and natural wealth, and the black star stands for the lodestar of African freedom. (The black star was adopted from the flag of the Black Star Line, a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey that operated from 1919 to 1922,[1] and gives the Ghana national football team their nickname, the Black Stars.)
The civil ensign is a red flag with the national flag in a black-fimbriated canton, evidently based on the British Red Ensign.
The Ghana Air Force has its own ensign which incorporates the flag of Ghana. Civil aviation in Ghana is represented by the national civil air ensign.
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- ^ Crampton, William George (1993). "Marcus Garvey and the Rasta colours". Report of the 13th International Congress of Vexillology, Melbourne, 1989: 169–180, Flag Society of Australia. ISBN 0-646-14343-3.
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