The flag of Armenia was officially adopted on August 24, 1990.
After gaining its independence from the former Soviet Union, this flag, once used in the 1920s, was proudly hoisted. Its colors are said to represent the people of Armenia, with red symbolic of the spilled blood of all Armenian soldiers, present and past; the orange symbolic of the fertile land and the farmers that work it, and the blue is symbolic of hope and the promising sky above.