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Germany Flag
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
“Schwarz-Rot-Gold; Deutschlandfahne; Bundesflagge”
Also known as Germania (it); Allemagne (fr); Deutschland (de); Alemania (es)
ISO 3166: DE (276)
- Adopted
- 9 May 1949
- Proportions
- 3:5
- FIAV usage
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Used as civil and state flag, on land and at sea.
- Official status
- ⊕Officially adopted by national law
- Colors
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#000000 #DD0000 #FFCE00 - Designer
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- Predecessor
- Flag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
- Regulatory document
- Anordnung über die deutschen Flaggen vom 13. November 1996 (BGBl. I S. 1729); Art. 22 Grundgesetz
- Design family
- Horizontal tricolour
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PredecessorFlag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
Current flagsince 9 May 1949