What color is the pentagram on Ethiopia's national flag?

The pentagram on Ethiopia’s national flag is yellow. It appears as part of the national emblem, a golden five-pointed star set on a blue disc at the flag’s center.

The current flag combines Ethiopia’s long-standing green, yellow, and red colors with the emblem adopted in 1996. The star represents the unity of Ethiopia’s peoples and nationalities, while its surrounding rays are associated with equality and a bright future.

Ethiopia’s tricolor has a much older history: Emperor Menelik II ordered a combined tricolor in 1897, after Ethiopia’s victory over Italy at Adwa. The emblem-bearing design is therefore different from the plain tricolor often seen in historical images or popular illustrations.

A common mix-up is to describe the star as blue because it sits on a blue disc. The disc is blue; the pentagram itself is golden yellow. The emblem was modified in 2009, and Ethiopian law subsequently required the national flag to be used with its emblem.