Flag of Angola
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · black.
Current flag
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Angola
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
The flag has 2 horizontal bands from top to bottom: red · black.
- Layout
- Horizontal bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Symbols
- Star – Centre
- Colours
- Red, black, and yellow
Sources
- Proportion: Republic of Angola – National Symbols Manual
Angola’s cogwheel, machete and star
Angola’s flag divides a red upper half from a black lower half. At the centre, a yellow half-cogwheel, machete and star form a single emblem rather than three unrelated decorations.
The national-symbols manual links the cogwheel with workers and industry and the machete with agriculture and the liberation struggle. The red and black fields are also explained through Angola’s history and African identity. This industrial and agricultural emblem gives the flag a different visual character from a plain two-colour banner.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Angola
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Luanda
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- AO
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- AGO
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 024
- Top-level domain
- .ao
- Area
- 1,246,700 km²
- Population
- 39,040,039 (2025)
- Currency
- AOA
- Calling code
- +244
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Angola (1667–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
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A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
