Flag of Azerbaijan

Flag of Azerbaijan

Use	Civil flag.
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1918, with modifications in 1991
Design	A horizontal tricolor of blue, red and green

The flag of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan bayrağı) is one of the national symbols of Azerbaijan and consists of three equal horizontal bands, from top: blue, red, and green; a white crescent and an eight-pointed star (Rub El Hizb) are centered in the red band. The eight points of the star stand for the branches[?] of the Turkic peoples^{[citation needed]}. The blue band is the colour of the Turks^{[citation needed]}. the green is for Islam and red is for progress and Europeanisation^[1]. The official colours and size were adopted on February 5, 1991.^[2] The flag is used on land as the civil, state and war flag, and at sea as the civil, state and naval ensign and naval jack. The specific shades of the national flag were laid out in a 2004 law.^[3]

Flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Coat of arms of Azerbaijan

[edit] External links

Azerbaijan at Flags of the World