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61 years ago, August 6 1962, Jamaica gained independence under this flag. It is the only national flag in the world without either blue, red or white.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
This was an initial proposal, with the same colors in a slightly boring horizontal triband:
Another proposal rearranged it a bit, but was discarded as too similar to the flag of Tanganyika, which seems quite reasonable, since they did not know that problem would be short-lived:
In the end they went for the saltire, which seems like a great choice, creating a more unique and interesting design.
What about Mauritania?
Edited to say never mind, I’m an idiot and lemmied this late last night and wasn’t paying attention. (Is that the verb for posting on lemmy btw?)
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
There's definitely red on it.
That used to be the case, red bands were added to it in 2017