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Several African countries thus use the color on their flags, including South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Togo, Guinea, Benin, and Zimbabwe.

 

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The Pan-African colors are borrowed from the Ethiopian flag, one of the oldest independent African countries.

 

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Green in these cases represents the natural richness of Africa.[44]

 

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Many flags of the Islamic world are green, as the color is considered sacred in Islam.[45]

 

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Other countries use flags for reasons of heraldry, or to represent lush national vegetation. In heraldry, green is called vert (French for "green").

 

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Fourteenth century documents describe vert as a symbol of "jolliness and youth, but also of beauty and shame" as well as of death.

 

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Vert is used for the flags of Wales and Hungary, and is the basis for the Brazilian flag as well.[46][47]

 

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Other countries using green in their flags use it to represent their country's lush vegetation, as in the flag of Jamaica,[48] and hope in the future, as in the flag of Nigeria.[49]

 

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Green is a symbol of Ireland, which is often referred to as the “Emerald Isle”.

 

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The color is particularly identified with the republican and nationalist traditions in modern times.

 

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It is used this way on the flag of the Republic of Ireland, in balance with white and the Protestant orange.[50]

 

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Green is a strong trend in the Irish holiday St. Patrick’s Day.[51]

 

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Religion and philosophy

 

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Green is considered the traditional color of Islam, likewise because of its association with nature.

 

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This is for several reasons.

 

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First, Muhammad is reliably quoted in a hadith as saying that “water, greenery, and a beautiful face” were three universally good things.[52]

 

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In the Qur'an, sura Al-Insan, believers in God in Paradise wear fine green silk.[3][53]

 

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Also, Al-Khidr (“The Green One”), is a Qur’anic figure who met and traveled with Moses.[54]

 

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The flag of Hamas,[55] as well as the flag of Iran, is green, symbolizing their Islamist ideology.[56]

 

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In the metaphysics of the "New Age Prophetess", Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical personality types, the "third ray" of "creative intelligence" is represented by the color green.