The flag of Equatorial Guinea shows three horizontal stripes in green, white and red, with an flat blue triangle in the leech. The state- and naval flag carrys further in the white centre-stripe the coat of arms of the state. The flag was introduced on 12th of October in 1968 on occasion of the independence from Spain. Blue stands for the ocean, green for the agriculture and the nature-treasures, white for the peace and red stands for the in the struggle for indpendence given blood.
In the arms is to see a mangrove-tree on a silver shield, over there are six golden six-jaged stars jag. By other sources should the tree allegedly be a mulberry tree, under which in the middle og the nineteenth century the Spanish and king Bonkoro of Bata came to their first agreement. The six stars above the shield symbolize the mainland and the five islands of the country. Beneath the shield the inscription: "Unity, Peace, Justice". Between 1973 and 1979, in the time of the rule of Macia Nguema, was used an other coat of arms.
The name "Guinea" described earlier the entire west coast of Africa between Cape Dakar and Cape Lopez. It goes back to the name "aguinaou", a word of the Tuareg, to describe peoples south of the Sahara: "Blacks".
