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 the national flag of the country Azerbaijan. It consists of three equal horizontal bands colored blue, red, and green, with 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 . The blue band is the colour of the Turks. 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 as the following: blue - PMS 313 C, red - PMS 185 C, green - PMS 3405 C.^[3] (PMS=Pantone Matching System)

References

See also

• Coat of arms of Azerbaijan

External links

• Azerbaijan at Flags of the World