Flag of Jubaland

Jubaland State of Somalia

Proportion	2:3
Adopted	28 February 2013; 11 years ago (28 February 2013)
Design	A horizontal stripes of green, white, and red, with a central emblem incorporating a traditional Somali shield and spear, symbolizing defense and unity.

Jubaland has had a wide array of flags in its modern history, ranging from that during its British East Africa Province of Jubaland era, during the transitionary Trans-Juba period of Jubaland, as well as the current Jubaland's federal state flag.

British East Africa

During its period as a British East Africa province, Jubaland had a variation of the British blue ensign.

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  Flag of British East Africa

Transitionary phase

Jubaland was in the transitionary phase of Trans-Juba for a total of 715 days, or one year, eleven months, and fifteen days, from the 15 July 1924 until 30th of June 1926:^[1]

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  Trans-juba

Afterwards the Italian colonial flag with the emblematic crown was used:

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  Italian colonial flag

British and UN administrative period

From 1941 until 1949 was the British administrative period after the British occupied places vacated by the Italians in WW2:^[2]

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  BMAS (British Military Administration of Somalia)

Subsequently, the Stettinius blue of the United Nations flag, first erected in New York City and which would later be embraced as Somalia's national flag, was adopted by Jubaland as well as Somalia during its United Nations Trust Territory period.

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  United Nations Trust Territory

Contemporary assortment

During Jubaland's development phase various flags had been proposed, as well as the one used during the existence of the self-proclaimed Republic of Azania, which resembled the Russian flag.^[3] The current flag of Jubaland was adopted at a conference on 28 February 2013 at Kismayo.^[4] There is also a sub-federal level flag for Gedo.^{[5][verification needed]}

In 2023 conservatives and right-wing media attacked a flag design for Minnesota, advancing a conspiracy theory that it represents a Somali "conquest" of Minnesota due to similarities with the current Jubaland flag.^[6]

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  First adopted Jubaland flag
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  Jubaland (interim Azania period; see Flag of Azania)
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  Current Jubaland flag
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  Flag of Gedo

References

This page was last edited on 17 May 2024, at 22:56