Yemen

al-Yaman - Republic of Yemen, al-Jumhuriyat al-Yamaniyah

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2:3 | image by Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024

• About the Flag
• Colour specifications
• Coat of arms

See also:

• Presidential Flag
• Government flags
• Military Flags
• Coast Guard
• Political Flags
• Index of all related pages
• Self-determination for the people of the South of Yemen

About the Flag

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.

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 well as naval jack).
Colour approximate specifications (as given in Album des Pavillons [2000]):

• Red: Pantone 032 c / CMYK (%) C 0 - M9 0 - Y 85 - K 0

Colour specifications

The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC believed the flag to be.
For Yemen: PMS 032 red and black. The vertical flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012

The Flag Manual - Beijing 2008 gives Pantone colors: PMS 032 (red), and Black.

The Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] (Corr. No. 6.) gives approximate colors in Pantone and CMYK systems:
Red: Pantone 032c, CMYK 0-90-85-0
Note: All other color values refer to other flags and emblems illustrated.

The Album des Pavillons 2023 specifies the colors of the flags in three color systems:
Red: Pantone 032c, CMYK 0-92-89-0, RGB 230-45-35
Note: All other color values refer to other flags and emblems illustrated.

Vexilla Mundi gives colors in Pantone system: PMS 032C (red), PMS White, and PMS Black.

Wikipedia illustrates the flag, and construction details, and gives RGB (and Hex) color values:
Red: 206-17-38 (#CE1126)
White: 255-255-255 (#FFFFFF)
Black: 0-0-0 (#000000)

Flag Color Codes gives the following color values:
Red: Hex #CE1126, RGB 206-17-38, CMYK 0-90-76-0, Pantone 032, RAL 3028
White: Hex #FFFFFF, RGB 255-255-255, CMYK 0-0-0-0, Pantone N/A, RAL N/A
Black: Hex #000000, RGB 0-0-0, CMYK 0-0-0-100, Pantone Black, RAL 9005

Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024

Coat of arms

  image by Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024
Source: https://presidentalalimi.net/index.php

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