Flag-Art: Triband And Tricolors
I enjoy research the latest in the flag and flagpole world. I am making an attempt to describe one of the more popular flag designs out there, indeed the triband or triband type flag. These designs can be observed hoisted on national flag poles throughout lands of all kinds. From what I can tell, there are more horizontal tribands than vertical tribands.
Armenia flies a triband for their national flag from their tallest flagpole. Proportioned one the two, this standards was first recognized officially in the 1990. A law indicating how to fly the flag from an Armenian flagpole, and its use was passed in 2006. The colors used are red, blue and orange, arranged horizontally.
The Republic of Senegal flies the Pan African colors in a vertical triband or triband type arrangement. It was first flown from a Senegalese flagpole during the early sixties. The country’s flag history is in fact similar to that of Mali. Both nations have been independent republics since this time period. The Pan African colors are green, yellow and red.
Cameroon’s triband flag looks very similar to certain international flags hoisted on African flagpoles. Like the Senegalese triband, the Cameroonian flag also features the Pan African colors in a vertical triband arrangement. A green vertical strip is located on the hoist side of the triband. The center strip is red and the strip located on the fly-end is yellow.
The former Republic of Rwanda used to fly a triband arrangement of Pan African colors. A new national standard was adopted however in 2001, and some years following the ’94 genocide. The current flag is a horizontal triband in the colors blue, green and yellow. A different shade of yellow is used for the sun, which is featured on the blue horizontal strip. Some will argue that this standard is a triband, since the top strip is nearly (if not exactly) twice the size of the other strips.
The triband flown by the nation of Chad is a vertical triband. The colors blue, yellow and red are arranged vertically instead of horizontally. Adopted in the year 1959, this triband has been in use for purposes of display from a flagpole and other structures for a little more than fifty years.
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