The new regime renamed the country and changed the flag to a green field with a red star in the canton.

In order to symbolize the revolutionary change, the country was renamed Benin and a new flag was instituted three years later.

[6] It featured a green field charged with a five-pointed red star in the top-left canton.

[1] The green flag remained in place until 1990, when economic problems and the weakening of the Soviet Union's power due to the Revolutions of 1989 culminated in the collapse of the People's Republic of Benin.

[8] On a continental level, the yellow, green and red represented the Pan-Africanist movement;[9] the three colours were utilized by the African Democratic Rally, a political party representing the interests of French West Africa in the National Assembly of France at the time of decolonization.