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The flag of Haiti is a bicolor flag, divided horizontally with blue on the upper half and red on the lower half.
The colors of the Haitian flag reflect Haiti's status as a former French colony, using the red and blue from the French flag. The story behind this resemblance is that the revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines created the flag from the French flag, removing the white center and rotating the stripes, the blue and red left to represent Haitians, symbolically removing any remnants of white influence. The blue represented the former slaves and the red represented the mulatto population, who are people of mixed black and white ancestry.
The flag first came into use in 1806, and was made official by the national constitution on February 25, 2012.
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Fact about Haiti flag |
Country | Haiti |
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Designed by | NA |
Adopted | 26. February 1986 |
Revision | NA |
Design and Colors | A horizontal bicolor of blue and red with a white rectangle in the center bearing the National Coat of Arms of Haiti |
Size Ratio | 3:5 |