Thank you for watching Why are there five circle on the Olympic flag The Olympic flag has five interlocking rings of different colors: blue, yellow, black, green and red. The rings are arranged in a specific pattern of three at the top and two at the bottom. The flag was designed by Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, in 1912. The circles on the flag symbolize the unity and cooperation of the five inhabited continents of the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. The colors of the rings were chosen because at least one of them appears on the flags of every country in the world. Blue, yellow, black, green and red were chosen because they are the colors commonly used on the national flag. Later, people have another interpretation of the color of the five rings, saying that these five rings represent the five continents of the world: blue represents Europe, yellow represents Asia. Black represents Africa, green represents Oceania, and red represents A
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