The flag 🇹🇦 represents Tanganyika, a former sovereign state in East Africa. It features a horizontal tricolor of green, black, and yellow, with a white-edged blue diagonal band running from the upper hoist side to the lower fly side. The green symbolizes agriculture, the black represents the Swahili people, and the yellow represents the country's mineral wealth. The blue diagonal band represents Lake Tanganyika, the longest freshwater lake in the world.