Green flag

Green flag

A green flag has various significances.

National flags

*The current flag of Libya is a plain green flag.
*Irish nationalism was traditionally represented with a green flag. The current flag of Ireland is a tricolour with green representing the Irish Catholics, orange representing the Irish Protestants, and white in the middle to represent peace.
*In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm the farm hoisted a plain green flag.

Other

*Green Flag is the name of a motoring assistance company in the UK
* The waving of a green flag indicates the beginning or resumption of an auto race.
* Green Flag award is a mark of conservation effort in the UK
* The Green Flag is a novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1900.


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