Flag of Chad

The national flag of Chad is a vertical tricolour of indigo, yellow, and red. It was adopted on 6 November 1959, almost a year after the founding of the autonomous Republic of Chad. Since the 1990s, its similarity to the flag of Romania has caused international discussion.

The flag of Chad is a vertical tricolour consisting (left to right) of a indigo, a yellow and a red column. The colours of the Chadian flag were intended to be a combination of the colours of blue, white and red as seen on the flag of France with the Pan-African colours of green, yellow and red as seen on the flag of Ethiopia. Furthermore, the indigo represents the lake Chad and the Black African heritage; the yellow represents the sands of the Sahara desert, and the red represents the bloodshed over independence of Chad from France. When the legislative commission in Chad first proposed a design for their national flag in June 1959, it featured a vertical tricolor of green, yellow, and red similar to the Flag of Mali. They changed the original green stripe to blue for the final design adopted in November 1959 to avoid confusion with Mali, which were already using the same Pan-African colors. The flag was adopted in 1959 for the autonomous republic and retained on independence in 1960, and in the constitution of 1962. Despite many political upheavals within Chad since independence, the flag has not been changed. This may be because the flag is not associated with any of the main…