{
  "g": "h,empire,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Sultanate of Zanzibar",
  "now": "tanzania",
  "years": "1856–1964",
  "id": "zanzibar-sultanate",
  "index": "c/tanzania:1856",
  "title": "Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1963)",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#ce1126",
      "note": "Omani dynastic red — inherited from the Busaid of Oman."
    },
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#0d8a3a",
      "note": "Independence disc."
    },
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#fcd116",
      "note": "Clove buds — Zanzibar's spice heritage."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964) was the Indian-Ocean successor to the Omani Empire; this flag was used in its brief independent constitutional monarchy (December 1963 – January 1964)\n - **Construction:** a red field with a green disc charged with two yellow **clove buds** — Zanzibar's principal export and the root of its colonial economy\n - Earlier Sultanate flags were plain red, reflecting dynastic continuity with the Busaidi rulers of Oman",
  "flag": "empires/zanzibar-sultanate.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Sultanate of Zanzibar",
    "officialName": "Sulṭānat Zanjībār",
    "un": "observer"
  },
  "trivia": "- Overthrown by the Zanzibar Revolution of January 1964; the sultan fled and the archipelago merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania\n - Stone Town (Zanzibar's old quarter) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site documenting the Swahili-Arab-Omani cultural fusion\n - Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar's Parsi community in 1946, during British protectorate",
  "_name": "Sultanate of Zanzibar",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "zanzibar-sultanate"
}