🇳🇪 The colours of Niger

Niger’s flag uses orange, white, and green in horizontal stripes with an orange circle at the centre. These colours are widely said to represent the country’s three main regions: the Sahara in the north (orange), the Sahel (white), and the fertile south (green), while the orange disc is thought to symbolise the sun.

Where no official value is given, the swatch shows the colour family, not the exact shade.

• The flag has orange, white, and green horizontal stripes.
• An orange circle sits in the centre of the flag.
• Orange is said to represent the Sahara Desert or the sun.
• The flag was adopted before independence in 1959.
• There is no official definition for the flag’s colour shades.

The colours of the flag of Niger

Niger’s flag is made up of three horizontal bands: orange at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom, all of equal width. In the centre of the white band sits an orange circle. While not officially confirmed, the orange is commonly said to stand for the Sahara Desert in the north, white for the Sahel region, and green for the fertile southern lands. The orange disc is widely interpreted as representing the sun. These meanings are popular explanations rather than official declarations.

How the colours were chosen of Niger

The flag was designed in 1958 and adopted in 1959, just before Niger became independent from French West Africa. It was first used by the Territorial Assembly of the Niamey Colony and kept unchanged after independence in 1960. The design and colours have remained the same through to the present, including in the 2010 Constitution.

Official shades and rules of Niger

The flag is traditionally shown with a 6:7 ratio, which is unusual and its origin is unknown. However, this ratio is not consistently used in official government materials and is not set out in the Constitution. There are no official specifications for the exact shades of the colours.