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The green represents Country's vegetation and land resources. |
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The yellow represents the country's mineral wealth. |
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The red represents the blood spilt during the liberation struggle. |
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Black represents the black majority. |
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The Zimbabwe Bird is the National Emblem of Zimbabwe. |
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White triangle for peace and the "way forward". |
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Red Star for internationalism (and reflects the ruling party's socialist credentials). |
Description of the Flag:
Vert, on a fess gules, fimbriated by two bars to form a bar sable, issuant from dexter a
pile argent fimbriated sable charged with a Molet of five points gules debruised by a
representation of the Great Zimbabwe Bird.
The Zimbabwe National Flag is thus a seven striped flag of equal horizontal stripes of
green-yellow-red-black-red-yellow-
green with a black fimbriated white triangle at hoist containing a red five-pointed star
and the yellow Great Zimbabwe bird in proportions or 1:2.
