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Flag of the Union of the Comoros

Flag of the Union of the Comoros

Construction sheet: Flag of the Union of the Comoros
Construction sheet

Description

  • Four equal horizontal bands of yellow, white, red, and blue, with a green isosceles triangle at the hoist
  • Inside the triangle is a white crescent with four white five-pointed stars. Each stripe represents one of the
  • four main islands, and the four stars echo this. Adopted 23 December 2001 following constitutional reforms

Trivia

  • The four stripes represent the four islands: Mayotte, Anjouan, Mohéli, and Grande Comore
  • The colours cycle through the Pan-African scheme with a green chevron adding Islamic symbolism
  • The crescent and star represent Islam as a unifying faith across the islands

Design

The national flag of the Union of the Comoros (officially French: Union des Comores, Comorian: Udzima wa Komori, Arabic: الاتّحاد القمريّ‎, al-Ittiḥād al-Qamarī) consists of:

  • a white crescent with four white five-pointed stars inside of a green triangle
  • the flag has four stripes, representing four islands of the nation:
  • Yellow is for Mohéli
  • White is for Mayotte (claimed by Comoros but administered by France)
  • Red is for Anjouan
  • Blue is for Grande Comore.

The four stars on the flag also symbolize the four islands of the Comoros. The star and crescent symbol stands for their main religion, Islam.

The stars point usually point up as reflected in the model supplied when the flag was adopted, but legal documents concerning the flag do not specify the flags orientation and there are variants in which the stars point outwards and not up.

Trivia

  • The name Comoros derives from derives from the Arabic word قمر /qamar/

which means "moon", hence the crescent.

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