Flag of the State of Katanga
The flag of the now-defunct State of Katanga, a regime in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that briefly existed during the Congo Crisis, was designed by an architect Louis Dressen, former manager of Banque du Congo Belge in Elisabethville (modern-day Lubumbashi).
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| Use | National flag |
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| Proportion | 3:4 |
| Adopted | 29 June 1960 to 1963 |
| Design | Flag divided diagonally from lower hoist-side to the upper fly-side into two fields, one red and the other white. The fields are separated by a green band. In the white field are three red Katanga crosses. |
| Designed by | Louis Dressen |
Components of the flag had to represent the motto of Katanga: Force, espoir et Paix dans la Prospérité ("Power, Hope and Peace in Prosperity"). The red component is for power, green for hope, white for peace and the croisettes (saltires/crosses, based on the area's traditional currency, the Katanga cross) for prosperity.[1]
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