Editing Yellow (section)

=== Selected national and international flags ===
Three of the five most populous countries in the world (China and Brazil) have yellow or gold in their flag, representing about half of the world's population. While many flags use yellow, their symbolism varies widely, from civic virtue to golden treasure, golden fields, the desert, royalty, the keys to Heaven and the leadership of the Communist Party. In classic European [[heraldry]], yellow, along with white, is one of the two [[tincture (heraldry)|metals]] (called gold and silver) and therefore flags following heraldic design rules must use either yellow or white to separate any of their other colors (see the [[rule of tincture]] and [[insignia]]).
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File:Flag of Belgium.svg|[[Flag of Belgium]] (1831). The yellow comes from the yellow lion in the coat of arms of the [[Duchy of Brabant]], founded in 1183–84.
File:Flag of Bhutan.svg|[[Flag of Bhutan]] (1956). The Bhutan flag features [[Druk]], the thunder dragon of [[Bhutanese mythology]]. The yellow represents civic tradition, the red the Buddhist spiritual tradition.
File:Flag of Brazil.svg|[[Flag of Brazil]] (1889). The yellow color was inherited from the flag of the [[Empire of Brazil]] (1822–1889), where it represented the color of the [[House of Habsburg]].
File:Flag of Brunei.svg|[[Flag of Brunei]] (1956). In Southeast Asia yellow is the color of royalty. it is the color of the [[Sultan of Brunei]], and also appears on the flag of Thailand and of Malaysia.
File:Flag of Chad.svg|[[Flag of Chad]] (1959). The color yellow here represents the sun and the desert in the north of the country. This flag is identical to that of Romania, except that it uses a slightly darker indigo blue rather than cobalt blue.
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg|[[Flag of the People's Republic of China]] (1949). The four small gold stars represent the workers, peasants, urban middle class, and rural middle class. The large star represents the [[Chinese Communist Party]].
File:Flag of Colombia.svg|[[Flag of Colombia]]. The asymmetric design of the flag is based on the old [[Flag of Gran Colombia]]. The yellow color represents the golden treasure taken from Colombia over the centuries.
File:Flag of Germany.svg|[[Flag of Germany]]. Black, red and yellow were the colors of the [[Holy Roman Emperor]], and, in 1919, of the German [[Weimar Republic]]. The modern German flag was adopted in 1949.
File:Flag of Jamaica.svg|[[Flag of Jamaica]] (1962). It is currently the only national flag that does not contain a shade of the colors red, white, or blue.
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg|[[Flag of Lithuania]] (1918 to 1940, restored in 1989, modified in 2004). Yellow represents the sun, light and goodness.
File:Flag of Malaysia.svg|[[Flag of Malaysia]] (original version, 1950, current version 1963.) The yellow crescent represents Islam, the yellow star the unity of the fourteen states of Malaysia. The red and white stripes (like the stripes on the U.S. flag) are adopted from the flag of the [[British East India Company]].
File:Flag of Mozambique.svg|[[Flag of Mozambique]] (1983). The colors are those of the Marxist Liberation Front of Mozambique, or [[FRELIMO]], which rules the country. Yellow represents the country's mineral wealth.
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg|[[Flag of the Philippines]] (1898). The yellow sun is in the middle of the triangle shape.
File:Flag of Romania.svg|[[Flag of Romania]] (1848, and again in 1989, after the fall of the Communist regime.) Blue, yellow and red were the colors of the [[Wallachian uprising of 1821]], and the 1848 revolution. Yellow represents justice.
File:Flag of Spain.svg|[[Flag of Spain]] (1978). The yellow in the Spanish flag comes from the traditional [[Crown of Castille]] and the [[Crown of Aragon]]. The general design was adopted in 1785 for the Spanish Navy, to be visible from a great distance at sea.
File:Flag of Sweden.svg|[[Flag of Sweden]] (adopted 1906, but colors in use since at least the mid-16th century). The legend says that in 1157, during the [[First Swedish Crusade]], the Swedish king [[Eric the Holy]] saw a golden cross appear in the blue sky.
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg|[[Flag of Ukraine]] (1992 (originally in 1918)).
File:Flag of the Vatican City.svg|[[Flag of Vatican City]] (1929). The yellow color represents the golden key of the Kingdom of heaven, described in the [[Book of Matthew]] of the [[New Testament]], and part of the Papal seal on the flag.
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg|[[Flag of Vietnam]] (1955). The big gold star represents five main classes (laborers, soldiers, peasants, intellectuals and bourgeois).
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==== Defunct flags ====
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File:Heiliges Römisches Reich - Reichssturmfahne vor 1433.svg|The banner of the Holy Roman Empire (15th century). The black, yellow and red colors reappeared first in 1848 and then in the 20th century in the German flag.
File:Flag of the Gran Colombia (1819-1820).svg|(1819) The flag of [[Gran Colombia]], which won independence from Spain, then broke into three countries ([[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]] and [[Ecuador]]) in 1830.
File:Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1889-1912).svg|Imperial flag of the [[Qing dynasty]], China (1890–1912), the last dynasty of China, overthrown by the [[Xinhai Revolution]] of 1911.
File:Flag of South Vietnam.svg|Flag of [[South Vietnam]] (1955–75). This was the flag of the anti-communist southern part of Vietnam during the [[Vietnam War]]. It was replaced by the flag of North Vietnam after communist forces took [[Saigon]] on 30 April 1975.
File:Flag of East Germany.svg|The flag of [[East Germany]] (1959–90). It differs from the West German flag by the presence of a communist symbol in the center, and it fell out of use when Germany was reunified after the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]].
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