papua new guinea magnet

Flag of Papua New Guinea. The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half. The symbol in the middle is of a crossed cog wheel (representing workers and industry) and machete (representing the peasantry) with a gold star. Red and black have long been traditional colours of many Papua New Guinean tribes. Black-white-red was the colour of the German Empire's flag, which had colonised New Guinea prior to 1918. The bird of paradise is also found on the national coat-of-arms.