Flags of the world

The flag of Mali (French: Drapeau du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in reverse order.
The flags colours have different meanings. The green stands for fertility of the land, Gold means purity and mineral wealth and lastly red symbolizes the blood shed for independence from the French. The current flag was adopted on 1 March 1961