Flag of Cameroon
The flag of Cameroon, adopted in 1975 and flown in a 2:3 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
Colours of the flag of Cameroon
The flag of Cameroon uses 3 colours: yellow, green, red. The swatches below are sampled from the flag artwork itself, so they are the exact values used in the file rather than an approximation.
Flags often confused with Cameroon
Cameroon is genuinely easy to mix up with 3 other flags. Compare them side by side here — the difference is usually a ratio, a shade, or the order of two bands.
About the flag of Cameroon
The flag of Cameroon — officially Republic of Cameroon — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Cameroon sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1975. Cameroon has its capital at Yaoundé and a population of about 29.9 million, figures that come from the same dataset the quizzes are built on.
As an emoji the flag is 🇨🇲, produced from the regional indicator letters for CM. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Cameroon
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