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Flag of Burkina Faso, the Glossary

The national flag of Burkina Faso (drapeau du Burkina Faso) is formed by two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green, with a yellow five-pointed star resting in the center.^[1]

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Flags introduced in 1984
National symbols of Burkina Faso

Africa Cup of Nations

The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON and officially known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the main quadrennial international men's association football competition in Africa.

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Black Volta

The Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana, the upper end of Lake Volta.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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CMYK color model

The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

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Coat of arms of Burkina Faso

The coat of arms of Burkina Faso contains a shield based on the national flag. Flag of Burkina Faso and coat of arms of Burkina Faso are national symbols of Burkina Faso.

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Colony of Niger

The Colony of Niger was a French colonial possession covering much of the territory of the modern West African state of Niger, as well as portions of Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.

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Constitution of Burkina Faso

The Constitution of Burkina Faso was approved by referendum on 2 June 1991, formally adopted 11 June 1991 and last amended in January 2002.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Five-pointed star

A five-pointed star (☆), geometrically an equilateral concave decagon, is a common ideogram in modern culture.

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Flag of France

The national flag of France (drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. Flag of Burkina Faso and flag of France are national flags.

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Flags of Africa

These are the various flags of Africa.

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French Sudan

French Sudan (Soudan français; السودان الفرنسي) was a French colonial territory in the Federation of French West Africa from around 1880 until 1959, when it joined the Mali Federation, and then in 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali.

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French Upper Volta

Upper Volta (Haute-Volta) was a colony of French West Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Green

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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La Gacilly

La Gacilly (Gallo: La Gaczilhae) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.

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National flag

A national flag is a flag that represents and symbolizes a given nation. Flag of Burkina Faso and national flag are national flags.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou or Wagadugu is the capital of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation.

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Pan-African colours

Pan-African colours is a term that may refer to two different sets of colours.

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Pantone

Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is an American limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing, and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Red Volta

The Red Volta or Nazinon is a waterway located in West Africa.

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Republic of Upper Volta

The Republic of Upper Volta (République de Haute-Volta) was a landlocked West African country established on 11 December 1958 as a self-governing state within the French Community.

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Thomas Sankara

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist revolutionary and Pan-Africanist who served as President of Burkina Faso from his coup in 1983 to his assassination in 1987.

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Upper Senegal and Niger

Upper Senegal and Niger was a colony in French West Africa, created on 21 October 1904 from colonial Senegambia and Niger by the decree "For the Reorganisation of the general government of French West Africa".

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Volta River

The Volta River (Asuo Firaw, Amuga) is the main river system in the West African country of Ghana.

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Web colors

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web; they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso

Also known as Burkina Faso flag, Burkinabe flag, Burkinan flag, Burkinese flag, Flag of Upper Volta, .