The colors of flags vary widely, but common meanings include red for courage and sacrifice, white for peace and purity, and green for fertility and nature. Other colors like blue often represent vigilance or the sky/sea, yellow can signify wealth or the sun, and black may represent determination or defeated enemies. The specific meaning depends on the flag's national context.
Common meanings of flag colors
- Red: Courage, sacrifice, war, revolution, danger, and passion.
- White: Peace, purity, innocence, and neutrality.
- Green: Fertility, growth, prosperity, nature, and agricultural abundance.
- Blue: Vigilance, perseverance, justice, good fortune, and calmness.
- Yellow: Wealth (gold), energy, sunshine, and prosperity.
- Black: Defeated enemies, ethnicity, determination, or mourning.
- Orange: Sacrifice and courage, often seen as saffron in the Indian flag.
- Purple: Passion and wealth, historically associated with royalty.
Examples of specific flags
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The top band is saffron for courage, the middle white band represents peace and truth, and the bottom green band stands for fertility and growth.
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Red symbolizes hardiness and valor, white represents purity and innocence, and blue stands for vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
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Has one of the most colorful flags, with a wide range of colors representing everything from the bloodshed in times of war (red) to the land (green).
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