Abuja - Nigeria

Abuja the capitol of Nigeria is an result of  an well planned. In the year 1976 they decide to relocate the capitol from Lagos to an more central point in the country, Lagos can be found southwest on the coast close to nation Benin and is the mot populous city of Nigeria. Abuja purpose is to unite more the Muslim north and Christian south. Since 1991 became Abuja officially the capitol of Nigeria and like the United States, Australia or Brasil they created an special subdivision to not make it part of any Nigerian State. The carved the Federal Capital Territory out of Niger State and Plateau State around the year 1976. Unlike the states pf Nigeria which administrated by an governor is the Federal Capital Territory administrated by an appointed minister by the president. Over 42 years the city experienced an insane grow, for example from 2000 to 2010 grew with 139,7% and that makes it the fast growing city in the world. Since 2010 its grows every year around the 35% and the greater Abuja area contains around an population of 6 million. In perspective around 1950 Abuja has an population if around 15 thousand and around 1976 an population around 77 thousand. In the end Abuja is there for every ethnicity and every religion to live safe and prosperous, many came to Abuja on that idea. Now lets take an look at the flag.

The flag has green background i don't think it has an meaning, maybe it has to do with the green savanna around the city. The big no of the vexillogists is on flag is there to, letters that formed the words in capital letters "ABUJA" and the motto or nickname "the Heart of Nigeria". On an sidenote all the states of Nigeria have an nickname and also the Federal Capital Territory, that one is "Centre of Unity". The logo in the center of the flag have the shape of the Federal Capital Territory, i put an picture below of an map of the territory. Within the shape you can it describe as an gyronny of six, an gyron looks like an pizza slice. Clockwise from the top the colors they use is light blue, yellow, blue, light blue, blue, yellow and its bordered by white lines. I don't found out what the colors mean, maybe in the near future i will get the idea behind that. And in the center there are six hands reaching each other as symbol to unite. Very clever design but the letters are little but useless.