Flag of the Gold Coast Colony

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  "g": "h,colonial,africa",
  "ns": "ghana-hist",
  "name": "Gold Coast Colony",
  "now": "ghana",
  "years": "1877–1957",
  "id": "gh-gold-coast",
  "index": "c/ghana:1877",
  "title": "Flag of the Gold Coast Colony",
  "ratio": "1:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#00247d",
      "cmyk": "100/71/0/51",
      "note": "British Blue Ensign tradition."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#cf142b",
      "cmyk": "0/90/79/19"
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "cmyk": "0/0/0/0"
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Gold Coast Colony (1877–1957) used a British Blue Ensign defaced with a badge featuring an elephant and palm tree — predecessor to Ghana\n - **Construction:** a Blue Ensign with the Gold Coast colonial badge in the fly half",
  "flag": "ghana-hist/gh-gold-coast.svg",
  "of": {
    "country": "ghana"
  },
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Gold Coast",
    "officialName": "Gold Coast (British colony)",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "cs": "ghana-hist/gh-gold-coast.cs.svg",
  "trivia": "- The Gold Coast was Britain's colonial territory, known for gold exports\n - Became Ghana in 1957, the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence\n - The flag represented the transition to independence",
  "article": "ghana-hist/gh-gold-coast.md",
  "_name": "Gold Coast Colony",
  "_namespace": "ghana-hist",
  "_namePart": "gh-gold-coast"
}