Overview of Togolese flags
The following is a list of flags used in Togo. For more information about the national flag, see flag of Togo.
National flag
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Flag_of_Togo.svg/150px-Flag_of_Togo.svg.png) | 1960-Present | Flag of Togo | Five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow; with a red canton bearing a white five-pointed star.[1][2][3] |
Government flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Presidential_Standard_of_Togo_v2.png/150px-Presidential_Standard_of_Togo_v2.png) | 1960-Present | Presidential Flag of Togo | Five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow; with a red canton bearing a white five-pointed star surrounded by laurels.[4] |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Presidential_Standard_of_Gnassingb%C3%A9_Eyad%C3%A9ma.png/150px-Presidential_Standard_of_Gnassingb%C3%A9_Eyad%C3%A9ma.png) | 1974-2005 | Presidential Standard of Gnassingbé Eyadéma | Five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow; with a red canton bearing a white five-pointed star and yellow script reading "GE" surrounded by laurels.[4] |
Togoland Protectorate
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Reichskolonialflagge.svg/150px-Reichskolonialflagge.svg.png) | 1884-1916 | Flag of the Imperial Colonial Office | A tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom) defaced with the Reichsadler in the centre. |
Ethnic group flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Flag_of_the_Ewe_people.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_Ewe_people.svg.png) | ?-Present | Flag of the Ewe people (32% of the total population of Togo) | A horizontal triband of green (top and bottom) and red, charged with three yellow star on the central band. Used unofficially to represent the Ewe people. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_Hausa_people.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_Hausa_people.svg.png) | ?-Present | Flag of the Hausa people (<1% of the total population of Togo) | A white field with a Dagin Arewa in the center.[5][6] Used unofficially to represent the Hausa people. |
Historical flags
Flag | Years of use | Ratio | Government | Description |
| 1884–1916 | 2:3 | Togoland Protectorate | The flag of the German Empire was used as the official flag of German Togoland. |
| 1916–1957 | 2:3 | Territory of Togoland | The French tricolor was used as the official flag of French Togoland and, from 1955, the Autonomous Republic of Togo. |
Autonomous Republic of Togo |
| 1957–1958 | 3:5 | A new flag for Togo was introduced in 1957, consisting of a green field with a French flag in the canton and two five-pointed white stars, one on the lower hoist side and one on the upper fly side. |
| 1958–1960 | 3:5 | The French flag in the canton of the previous flag was removed in 1958. |
Proposed flag
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Deutsch-Togo.svg/150px-Flag_of_Deutsch-Togo.svg.png) | 1914 | Proposed flag of the Togoland Protectorate | A tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom) defaced with a proposed coat of arms in the center. |
See also
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