Uganda’s national flag has how many equal horizontal bands? It has six equal horizontal bands. From top to bottom, the colors are black, yellow, red, black, yellow, and red.
A white disc is superimposed at the center of the flag. It contains a grey crowned crane, Uganda’s national bird, shown facing the hoist. The crane’s raised leg is commonly interpreted as symbolizing the country’s forward movement.
Uganda adopted the flag on 9 October 1962, the day it became independent from the British Empire. The design was based on the black, yellow, and red colors of the Uganda People’s Congress flag, while the crane had already been used as a colonial emblem and military badge.
The most common counting error is to count only the three colors and overlook that the sequence repeats once. Thus the flag has six stripes, not three; the central white disc is an emblem laid over the bands and is not an additional horizontal band.