National Flag of Angola

The national flag of Angola was adopted on November 11, 1975. It came into use at when Angola gained independence from Portuguese colonial rule. The flag of Angola is based on the flag of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which fought Portuguese colonial rule and emerged as the ruling party of Angola following the Angolan Civil War. It is one of the twelve national flags containing weapon in it.

The Angolan flag is a rectangular flag of proportion 2:3. It is divided horizontally into two halves -the top half being red and the bottom half being black. A yellow emblem is in the center. The emblem consists of a five pointed-star within a half gear wheel crossed by a machete. As outlined in the Constitution of Angola, the red half of the flag signifies bloodshed during Angola's independence struggle, and the black half symbolizes the continent of Africa, Yellow is symbolic of the country's mineral wealth. The central emblem consists of a golden star, part of a cog wheel and a machete. The gear represents industrial workers, the machete represents peasants, agricultural production and the country's armed struggle and the star symbolizes socialism, international solidarity and progress. The flag is most recently described and explained in article 162 of the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Angola (Constitution) of August 25, 1992.

In 2003, a new flag was proposed for Angola by Parliament's Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly, but it hasn’t yet been approved or formally adopted.

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