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  The flag of South Korea , also known as the Taegukgi (also spelled as Taegeukgi, lit. 'Taegeuk flag'), has three parts: a white rectangular background, a red and blue Taegeuk in its center, and four black trigrams one toward each corner. The first pattern of Taegukgi was made by Kojong. Flags similar to the current Taegeukgi were used as the national flags of Korea by the Joseon dynasty, the Korean Empire, and by the Korean exile government during Japanese rule. It has continued to be used as a national flag even after the establishment of the South Korean state on August 15, 1948. The flag's field is white , a traditional color in Korean culture. The color represents peace and purity . The circle in the centre represents balance in the universe . The red half represents positive cosmic forces , and the blue half represents the opposing negative cosmic forces . Together, the trigrams represent movement and harmony as fundamental principles. Each trigram represents Justice...

  The  Congo-Brazzaville flag  is a diagonal tricolour. The used colors in the flag are red, green, yellow. The proportion of the Congo-Brazzaville flag is 2:3. The Flag of Congo-Brazzaville was adopted in 1991. The first use of the current flag design was in 1959. The colours of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional meanings. The green symbolizes the agriculture and forests of the Congo, while the yellow represents the "friendship and nobility" of the Congolese people. However, the symbolism behind the red was left unexplained. From a continental viewpoint, the green, yellow and red are the colours of the Pan-Africanist movement.; it is the only Pan-Africanist flag to utilize a diagonal pattern in its design. They are also the same colours utilized in the flag of Ethiopia, the oldest independent country in Africa and the only nation other than Liberia to remain independent during the Scramble for Africa.

The Canadian flag consists of three vertical stripes. The right and left stripe are red and of equal size. The center stripe is white and in the middle of it is a red 11-pointed maple leaf emblem. The center stripe covers half of the width of the flag; while the red stripes cover one quarter each. The color red was taken from the Saint George's Cross and the color white from the French royal emblem .

The flag of Somalia consists of a blue base with a white, five-pointed star in the middle of the flag. The blue base originates from the flag of the United Nations and it represents the blue sky over Somalia and the UN , who helped the country realize its dream of independence. The white star represents African freedom . The star's individual points represent the five historical regions inhabited by the Somali people: Italian Somaliland (Somalia), British Somaliland (Somalia), French Somaliland (Djibouti), the Ogaden region of Ethiopia and north Kenya .

The flag of Rwanda consists of three horizontal stripes. The top stripe is blue, the middle one yellow and the bottom stripe is green. The yellow and green stripes are of equal width and the blue stripe is double the size of those stripes. In the top right corner of the Rwandan flag there is a yellow sun with 24 rays emanating from it. The blue stripe represents happiness and peace . The yellow symbolizes the country's mineral wealth and economic development and green symbolizes the country's natural resources and prosperity . The sun stands for unity, transparency and enlightenment from ignorance .

The Burundi flag features a white x cross that divides it into four parts. The left and right sides of the flag are green and the upper and lower parts are red. In the middle of the flag and the cross lies a white circle that has three six-point red stars with green borders inside. There is one star at the top of the circle and two beneath it, in a triangular configuration. The three stars in the middle of the Burundi flag officially refer to the words in the national motto "Unité, Travail, Progrès" (French for " Unity, Work, Progress "). The stars also represent the three ethnic groups who live in Burundi - the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa. The red in the Burundi flag stands for the country's independence struggle . The green represents hope and the white stands for peace .