[1] According to the official description, the red stands for unity and the bloodshed of martyrs, the white for a bright future, and the black for the supposed dark past.

[6] The regions would be Azal in the North, Saba in the center, Tihama in the West, Aden and Janad in the South, and Hadhramaut in the East.

The Kingdom of Yemen was never a British protectorate, it was nominally part of the Ottoman empire until 1918 and was independent thereafter.

[8] The flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in the South was a version of the Arab Liberation Flag with a light blue chevron which represented the people under the leadership of the National Liberation Front, with a red star next to the hoist representing the NLF itself and later the Socialist Party.

[9][10] The flag was adopted on 30 November 1967 when South Yemen declared independence from the United Kingdom until the Yemeni unification in 1990.