Flags with gold in them

17 of the 126 flags here carry gold, and they do not agree on what it represents. The table gives each country's own stated meaning rather than a generalisation across them.

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• The flag of Germany Three equal horizontal bands of black, red and gold.
• The flag of Argentina Three equal horizontal bands of light blue, white and light blue, with a golden Sun of May in the centre.
• The flag of South Africa A green horizontal Y laid on its side, outlined in white and gold, separating a red band above and a blue band below, with a black triangle at the hoist inside the Y.
• The flag of Philippines A blue band over a red band, with a white equilateral triangle at the hoist bearing a golden sun with eight rays and three gold five-pointed stars, one at each corner.
• The flag of Chad Three equal vertical bands of indigo blue at the hoist, gold and red.
• The flag of Jamaica A gold diagonal cross dividing the flag into four triangles: green at top and bottom, black at hoist and fly.
• The flag of Vatican City A square flag divided vertically, gold at the hoist and white at the fly, with the crossed keys of St Peter and the papal tiara on the white half.
• The flag of Ghana Three equal horizontal bands of red, gold and green, with a black five-pointed star centred on the gold.
• The flag of Sri Lanka A dark red field with a gold lion holding a sword and four gold bo leaves at the corners, beside two vertical stripes of green and orange at the hoist, all within a gold border.
• The flag of Uruguay Nine alternating horizontal stripes of white and blue, with a white canton bearing a golden Sun of May.
• The flag of Mongolia Three equal vertical bands of red, blue and red, with a golden Soyombo emblem on the band nearest the hoist.
• The flag of Kosovo A blue field with a gold silhouette of the territory below an arc of six white five-pointed stars.
• The flag of Papua New Guinea A field divided diagonally from the top hoist to the bottom fly: the upper fly half red with a golden bird of paradise, the lower hoist half black with the five white stars of the Southern Cross.
• The flag of Liechtenstein Two equal horizontal bands, blue over red, with a gold princely crown in the upper hoist quarter.
• The flag of South Sudan Black, red and green horizontal bands separated by thin white stripes, with a blue triangle at the hoist bearing a gold five-pointed star.
• The flag of Mauritania A green field with a horizontal gold crescent, points upward, above which sits a gold five-pointed star, and with a red horizontal band at the top and bottom edges.
• The flag of Nauru A blue field with a narrow gold horizontal stripe across the centre and a white twelve-pointed star below it, toward the hoist.