Flag of Ghana

What the flag means

• 🔴Red — the blood shed for independence
• 🟡Gold — mineral wealth
• 🟢Green — forests and nature
• ⭐Black star — the symbol of African freedom

No law defining the design was found. · Adopted 1957

Highlights

• 🥁 Lively African music and dance
• 🏰 Historic Gold Coast forts
• 😊 Peaceful, friendly people
• 🍫 A top cocoa-growing nation
• 🎨 Vibrant kente cloth

Quick facts

Region

Africa · Western Africa

Population

35,064,272 people (2025)

Area

238,533 km²

Capital

Accra

Languages

Akan, English

Currency

Ghanaian cedi (GHS)

Organizations

United Nations, African Union

Neighboring countries

• Burkina Faso
• Ivory Coast
• Togo

Land neighbors, approximated from simplified map outlines.

Symbols in History (1)

Coats of arms and emblems whose historic seat lies within this country’s present-day territory.

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  Flag of Asanteman (Ashanti)

  Ashanti, Ghana · Flag

  OriginThe Asante kingdom took shape around 1701 in the forest country of what is now central Ghana, when the Akan states around Kumasi united under Osei Tutu. Tradition holds that the priest Okomfo Anokye brought a golden stool down from the sky and declared that it held the soul of the whole people rather than the power of any one king. After long wars with the British the kingdom was restored in the twentieth century, and it survives as a traditional kingdom inside Ghana, flying this flag.

  DescriptionThree horizontal bands — yellow above, black in the middle, green below — are separated by narrow white lines. On the black band stands a yellow stool: a broad saddle-shaped seat whose upper edge sweeps up at both ends, carried on two legs that splay outward. This is the Golden Stool, Sika Dwa Kofi, the seat said to hold the spirit of the Asante people. Yellow speaks of the gold of this land, black of the ancestors and the people, green of the forest that covers it.

  Image source: Wikimedia Commons — Flag of Ashanti.svg