Flag of Nigeria
Three equal-width vertical bands.
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Nigeria
Flag facts
- Adopted
- 1960
Flag design
Three equal-width vertical bands.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 3
- Details
- Equal-width bands
- Colours
- Green and white
Sources
Nigeria’s green-white-green flag and its designer
Nigeria’s flag has three equal vertical bands, green at each side and white in the centre. Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi’s entry won a 1959 national design competition, and the flag was first officially hoisted on 1 October 1960.
The Federal Road Safety Corps describes the green bands as representing agriculture and the white band as representing unity and peace. The original winning design included a red sun, which the judges removed; the flag has remained unchanged since independence.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Nigeria
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Abuja
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- NG
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- NGA
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 566
- Top-level domain
- .ng
- Area
- 923,768 km²
- Population
- 237,527,782 (2025)
- Currency
- NGN
- Calling code
- +234
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Historical flags: Nigeria (1886–)
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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.
