Flag of Tajikistan

How to read it

The Supreme Council adopted the flag on 24 November 1992, at its 16th session; a presidential order of 20 November 2009 made 24 November the Day of the State Flag. The flag regulation, as the Interior Ministry publishes it, describes a rectangle of three horizontal stripes: red at the top, green at the bottom and of the same width, and white in the middle, one and a half times as wide. On the white, at half the flag’s length from the staff, is a stylised gold crown under a semicircle of seven stars. The flag’s width to length is 1:2.

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What the regulation fixes for the crown and stars

The crown and stars fit inside a rectangle 0.8 of the white stripe’s width high and 1.0 of it wide. Each five-pointed star fits a circle 0.15 of the white stripe’s width across, and the stars stand on an arc whose radius is half the white stripe’s width.

The crown and the seven stars

The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, reporting Tajikistan’s Flag Day, says the seven stars stand for the seven historic and cultural centres of Tajikistan; the Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO adds that the crown means power and sovereignty. The same crown under seven stars appears in the state emblem, above a sun rising behind snow-covered mountains.

Telling it from Iran’s flag

Red, white and green are the pan-Iranian colours, the same as in Iran’s flag, Store norske leksikon notes. Iran’s stripes are equal, green at the top and red at the bottom, with a red emblem in the centre and “Allahu akbar” repeated along the edges of the white. Tajikistan’s has red at the top, a wider white stripe and a gold crown and stars. Under Soviet rule Tajikistan had a flag in the same colours, with the whole upper half red and carrying the hammer, sickle and star.