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Ilhas de São Tomé e Príncipe / Saint Thomas and Prince Islands
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1:2 image by Zoltan Horvath, 14 September 2024
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About the flag
The Album 2000 [pay00] says: green-yellow-green triband with red triangle next to hoist and two black five-pointed stars in the yellow stripe.
Željko Heimer, 09 January 2003
Flag adopted on 5 November 1975, coat of arms adopted 1977.
Nozomi Kariyasu, August 1998
The flag of the republic, although in the pan-African colours, is derived from that of the Liberation Movement, whose flag was adopted in 1972. The only difference is that the Liberation Movement flag had equal horizontal stripes.
Željko Heimer, 27 November 2000, quoting [cra90f]
Design
image by António Martins and Željko Heimer, 16 February 2007
The ratio 1:2 and construction details are better expressed as (4+6+4):(7+7+7+7), instead of just (4+6+4):(7+21), as given in the_Album_ [pay00].
Željko Heimer, 20 January 2001
Constitution of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, approved in March 1990 and effective since September 10, 1990:
Article 13: National Symbols
- The National Flag consists of three horizontal bars, being green and those of the extremes of equal width, and in the middle, in which are affixed two five-pointed black stars, yellow, being one and one-half times larger than each of the others and by a scarlet triangle, whose base is located on the left side of the Flag. The height of the triangle is half that of the base.
- [national anthem]
- [national coat of arms]
Jos Poels, 27 May 1997
The central yellow stripe was 1.5 times broader than any of the green stripes, the red triangle isosceles and its height was equal to a half of the flag height. The center of the left star corresponds with an imaginatory point, situated on the dividing two stripes line 1/3 from the fly and the centre of the right star 2/3 of that line. The proportion is 1:2. It should be noted that the national flag hoisted on July 12, 1975, in São Tomé later sometimes was erroneously substituted by a flag with equal wide stripes. That is for the party emblem of the Democratic Movement of São Tomé e Príncipe.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997, quoting from [flm] 96 (March 1984)
Incorrect interpretation
image by Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997
If you follow the description exactly, the left star comes very close to the triangle. I’ve never seen the stars placed that way.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997
It is assumed (and makes much more sense) that the line that is divided in thirds mentioned in the quote is in fact the line from the top of the red triangle to fly end.
Željko Heimer, 22 January 2001
Color specifications
The Constitution defines the national symbols, but there is no any flag illustration. The coat of arms is seen on front page.
https://www.stj.st/index.php/constituicao-da-republica?download=2:constituicao-da-republica(Article 14)
I haven�t found any legislation on color specification of the national flag.
There is no official source that gives exact colors of the national flag; the colors listed below are all approximate colors from the documented sources.
Zoltan Horvath, 14 September 2024
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012) provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC believed the flag to be.
For São Tomé and Príncipe, PMS PMS 355 green, 032 red, 109 yellow and black. The vertical flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise
Ian Sumner, 11 October 2012
The Flag Manual - Beijing 2008 gives Pantone colors: PMS 102 (yellow), PMS 355 (green), PMS 032 (red), and PMS Black.
The Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] (Corr. No. 6.) gives approximate colors in Pantone and CMYK systems:
Red: Pantone 186c, CMYK 0-90-80-5
Green: Pantone 361c, CMYK 75-0-90-0
Yellow: Pantone 116c, CMYK 0-10-95-0
Blue: Pantone 300c, CMYK 100-44-0-0
Brown: Pantone 470c, CMYK 0-58-100-33
Grey: Pantone 444c, CMYK 15-0-15-42
The Album des Pavillons 2023 specifies the colors of the flags in three color systems:
Blue: Pantone 300c, CMYK 88-57-0-0, RGB 0-103-198
Red: Pantone 186c, CMYK 10-100-74-2, RGB 210-16-52
Brown: Pantone 470c, CMYK 28-72-97-25, RGB 155-77-27
Grey: Pantone 444c, CMYK 53-37-35-16, RGB 123-133-138
Yellow: Pantone 116c, CMYK 0-19-93-0, RGB 255-206-0
Green: Pantone 361c, CMYK 78-0-100-0, RGB 18-173-43
Vexilla Mundi gives colors in Pantone system: PMS 361C (green), PMS 186C (red), PMS 116C (yellow), and PMS Black.
Wikipediaillustrates the flag, and construction details, and gives color values as follows:
Yellow: RGB 255-209-0, Pantone 109C
Green: RGB 0-151-57, Pantone 355C
Red: RGB 239-51-64, Pantone 032C
Black: RGB 0-0-0
Flag Color Codes gives the following color values:
Green: Hex # 009739, RGB 0-151-57, CMYK 93-0-100-0, Pantone 355, RAL 6037
Yellow: Hex # FFD100, RGB 255-209-0, CMYK 0-5-100-0, Pantone 109, RAL 2007
Black: Hex #000000, RGB 0-0-0, CMYK 0-0-0-100, Pantone Black, RAL 9005
Red: Hex # EF3340, RGB 239-51-64, CMYK 0-90-76-0, Pantone 032, RAL 3024
Zoltan Horvath, 14 September 2024
Coat of Arms
Detail of arms
Above left: the 1970s original (and official) version:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki. That�s also the version of the national coat-of-arms used on thepresidential flag.
Above right: a more detailed and significantly different version, created by Kelvins de Abreu for Wikimedia Commons:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Ant�nio Martins-Tuv�lkin, 19 May 2024
According to the Constitution:
"The insignia consists of the figure of a falcon to the left and a parrot to the right, separated by an ovular-form coat of arms, whose vertical abscissa is of a dimension 0.33 times larger than the horizontal and in whose interior a palm tree is featured along the vertical abscissa."
Additionally, the shield is surmounted by a blue star. Above, there is a yellow scroll that states the name of the country. At the base of the arms the national motto, "Unidade, Disciplina, Trabalho" (Unity, discipline, work) is inscribed on a yellow scroll.
Zoltan Horvath, 14 September 2024
Air Force symbols
According to [cos98], reports (without an image) that only recently a small number of aircraft was obtained and "there are reports of those being marked with a roundel version of the national flag: red, yellow and green with two black stars". I'm quite familiar with [cos98]’s phrase "there are reports" so I will consider those "reports" with utmost caution. What I have learned from the Russian Aviation site is that the "small number of aircraft" is exactly one An-32. My guess is that it flies with civil markings and maybe the national flag as fin flash, but until someone will go there and take a photo of it, we will still be in the dark.
Dov Gutterman, 16 June 2004
I have never seen evidence of a photo of the Sao Tome & Principe roundel inAlbum2000.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 April 2024