

The bird remembers the country's history, and the central black stripe honors the native people, surrounded by red stripes to represent the fight for independence. Superimposed over the stripes on the left end of the flag is a white triangle that points to the right, with a red star covered by a yellow bird inside the triangle. The flag has seven horizontal stripes with colors alternating in the following order: green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green. Like Central Africa, Zimbabwe's flag uses five different colors, but the complex design makes it seem very busy and colorful. The cross stands for the Christian trinity, with each of the three colors representing a different part of the country's economy and heritage. Surrounding the parrot are ten green stars, representing the country's ten parishes. In the center of the cross is a red medallion, representing social justice, with a light blue, green, red, and yellow local parrot on it. The flag features a centered cross of yellow, black, and white stripes, with a green background. The country of Dominica uses six different colors, but not all of those colors are used in the flag's primary design. The star is there as a reminder of the hopes for a great future. Like many nations' flags, the colors represent various pieces of the country's history: The colors are those of the Pan-African and French flags combined, with the red stripe present to represent the bloodshed in the battle for independence. In the upper left hand corner, on the leftmost end of the blue stripe, is a single yellow five-point star. The colors are boldly blocked out in four horizontal stripes of the first four colors, bisected by a single vertical stripe in red. The Central African Republic uses five colors in their flag: blue, white, green, yellow, and red.

The ship represents the colonization of the islands beginning in 1535, while the three individual designs stand for the origins of the islands' colonists: Basque Country (top), Brittany (middle), and Normandy (bottom). The design depicts a yellow ship on a light blue background with waves drawn in black and white, with three flags forming a narrow border along the leftmost side of the flag: a white, green, and red design in the top third, a black and white design in the middle third, and two yellow lions on a red background in the bottom third. Designed in 1982, this flag is actually a local flag, with the flag of France used as the islands' official flag. The flag of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is a very interesting and complicated flag. Obviously, the five tribal designs represent the country's traditional heritage, while the five stars stand for the five regions of the nation. Orange, white, red, and green can be found in the tribal designs, with a white crescent moon encompassing five white five-pointed stars on the field of green to the right of the stripe, near the top of the flag. This stripe is primarily red, with five tribal patterns that are used in designing the traditional rugs the country is known for.

The flag is primarily green, but with a wide vertical stripe near the left end of the flag. It does have the honor of being the most intricate of all the national flags in the world. The colors and the Y design are meant to represent the convergence of two separate paths: those of the South Africans, and those of the Europeans who colonized the country.Īlthough with four colors in its design, Turkmenistan's flag is far from having the most colors. On the right side of the flag, the area above the Y is red, and the area below is blue, both with a white border. The triangular shape along the leftmost end of the flag is black with a yellow border.

The flag's design is made up of a green horizontal Y, positioned so that the Y touches both the upper and lower left corners of the flag. As the only nation to use six colors in their flag's primary design, South Africa gets first place on our list of the world's most colorful flags.
