What color is the bottom band on Sierra Leone's national flag?

What color is the bottom band on Sierra Leone’s national flag? The bottom band is light blue. Sierra Leone’s flag is a horizontal tricolour of light green on top, white in the middle, and light blue at the bottom.

The flag was adopted on 27 April 1961, the day Sierra Leone became independent from the United Kingdom. Its colors were drawn from the country’s coat of arms, which was formulated before independence. The light blue also recalls Freetown’s natural harbour and Sierra Leone’s hopes of contributing to world peace.

The upper green band refers to agriculture and the country’s mountains, while white represents unity and justice. The design replaced the colonial-era British Blue Ensign, which had displayed Sierra Leone’s colonial emblem.

A frequent mistake is to reverse the green and blue bands or to call the lower color simply “blue.” The official description specifies light blue, distinguishing it from darker blues used by several other national flags.