Gabon
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Adopted in 1960 upon independence from France. The green represents the forests, the yellow stands for the equator and the sun, and the blue symbolizes the sea. The equal horizontal stripes reflect the country's equatorial location.
Gabon's flag is one of the few that directly references the equator—the yellow stripe represents the equatorial line that runs through the country.
Adopted: 1960
