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Flag and coat of arms adopted 22 May
1990. Yemen was formed on 22 May 1990 by the union of
North Yemen and
South Yemen.
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Proportion: 2:3
Description: Horizontally divided red-white-black
Use: on land, civil, state and war flag; at sea,
civil, state, and naval ensign (as wel as naval jack).
Colour approximate specifications (as given in Album des Pavillons [2000]):
A golden eagle with a scroll in his claws inscribed in Arabic Al-Jumhuryijat al-Yamaniyah
(the name of the country).
On the chest a shield: a golden dam with a coffee plant, beneath 4
blue and 3 white wavy stripes. On the right and left golden flag staffs with
the national flag.
Mark Sensen, 19 April 1998