Flag of Puntland
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Puntland
Puntland , officially the Puntland State of Somalia , is a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998....
was adopted by its parliament on 22 December 2009. It is a horizontal tricolour
Tricolour
A tricolour is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided into three bands of differing colours...
of sky blue, white, and green, with a white star in the centre of the top stripe.
Before 2009, the government of Puntland flew a version of the flag of Somalia
Flag of Somalia
The flag of Somalia was adopted on October 12, 1954. It was designed by Mohammed Awale Liban. Upon reunification of Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland, the flag was used for the nascent Somali Republic.-History:...
.