Cameroon vs Senegal

Both are vertical green-yellow-red tricolors with a star, at 2:3. Cameroon is green-red-yellow with a yellow star in the red band. Senegal is green-yellow-red with a green star in the yellow band. Mali is the plain green-yellow-red with no star.

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Cameroon

Senegal

Proportion: 2:3
Adopted: 1975

Colors

Green #007A5E
Red #CE1126
Yellow #FCD116

Proportion: 2:3
Adopted: 1960

Colors

Green #00853F
Yellow #FDEF42
Red #E31B23
Star Green #00853F

Look foron Cameroon

Look foron Senegal

Green, red, yellow from the hoist

Green, yellow, red from the hoist
Yellow star in the red band

Green star in the yellow band
Adopted May 20, 1975

Adopted August 20, 1960

Which flag is Cameroon?

Two Stars, Two Stripe Orders

Cameroon's flag is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a yellow star in the red band, at 2:3. It was adopted on May 20, 1975. The catalog says the single star replaced two stars when the country became a unitary state. Green, red, and yellow are the Pan-African colors.

Senegal is green, yellow, and red, with a green star in the yellow band, at 2:3, adopted August 20, 1960, when Senegal left the Mali Federation. Mali kept the same stripe order and dropped the central figure, so Mali's yellow band is empty. That pair already has a page.

Read the hoist. If the middle band is red and the star is yellow, it is Cameroon. If the middle band is yellow and the star is green, it is Senegal.