Flag of Tajikistan

The national flag of Tajikistan was adopted in November 1992, replacing the flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of 1953. The flag of Tajikistan is an unequal horizontal tricolor of red, white, and green, defaced with a yellow crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars at the centre. It has a width ratio of 2:3:2. The tricolor preserves the choice of colors in the former Tajik Soviet flag, as well as the 1:2 proportions.

The flag of Tajikistan is a tricolour of red, white, and green. The red represents the unity of the nation, as well as victory and sunrise. The red also serves as a symbol of the former Russian and Soviet eras, the workers, and the warriors who sacrificed their lives to protect the land. The white represents purity, morality, the snow and ice of the mountains, and cotton. The green represents the bountiful generosity of nature, fertile valleys, the religion of Islam, and the celebration of Novruz. Other interpretations of the colours state that the flag symbolically unifies the people of Tajik society: the red stripe represents the manual labour class, the white stripe represents the intellectual worker class, and the green represents the agricultural class living in Tajikistan's rural or mountainous regions. The red and green stripes on the top and bottom are equal in size, while the central white stripe is one and a half times wider. The crown and stars are set in a rectangle that takes up 80% of the white stripe's height. The crown represents the Samanid dynasty and the Tajik people, as the name Tajik is connected in popular etymology with the Persian word tâj ('crown'). The…