South Yemen

The flag of South Yemen consisted of a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal red, white, and black bands of the Arab Liberation flag with the sky-blue chevron and a red star on the left side of the hoist.
==Appearence==
Red over white over black tricolour with a light blue triangle at the hoist containing a red five-pointed star. The triangle seems to reach one third of the fly length into the field and the star is centered at its center of gravity. The star is pointing flyward. The light blue of the triangle has a very light blue shade (maybe influenced by the light blue colours used by the peoples on the other side of the Gulf of Aden, (Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea).
==History==
The flag was adopted on 30 November 1967 when South Yemen declared independence from the United Kingdom until the Yemeni unification in 1990. It was used again for a few months in 1994 during the existence of the Democratic Republic of Yemen. Today, the South Yemeni flag is used by the separatist supporters from the Southern Movement and the Southern Transitional Council.
==Presidential Standard==
The South Yemen presidential flag was similar to the national flag, but with a coat of arms on the top, red stripe close to the hoist but not touching the blue triangle. The arms is of the Saladin-eagle-with-shield style, all in gold. In Whitney Smith's 1975 Flags through the Ages and Around The World, this flag is depicted, and instead of the regular coat of arms embellishing the upper red bar of the flag, it is a gold-coloured variant of this, similar in appearance to the present-day Egyptian flag. South Yemen only had a President from 1967-1969, and thereafter Chairmen of the Presidential Council (to 1978), and finally Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council (to 1990), so I am unsure if this flag continued in use after 1969, but given that Smith's book is a 1975 publication, this was probably the case and the flag would continue until 1990. 
Category:Yemen
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