🇹🇯 The colours of Tajikistan

Tajikistan’s flag displays red, white, and green bands, with a yellow crown and seven stars at the centre. Red stands for unity, sacrifice, and the nation’s past; white signals purity, mountain snow, and cotton; green points to fertile land, Islam, and renewal. The crown and stars highlight Tajik heritage and the importance of the number seven in local tradition.

Where no official value is given, the swatch shows the colour family, not the exact shade.

• The flag was adopted in November 1992.
• The white stripe is 1.5 times wider than the red or green.
• A yellow crown and seven stars appear in the centre.
• Red, white, and green were kept from the Soviet-era flag.
• The number seven is important in Persian mythology.

The colours of the flag of Tajikistan

The Tajik flag is made up of three horizontal stripes: red at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom. The white band is wider than the others. In the centre, a yellow crown sits beneath an arc of seven yellow stars. Red is linked to the nation’s unity, past struggles, and the Soviet era. White is said to represent purity, the snowy peaks, and cotton, while green refers to the land’s fertility, Islamic faith, and the spring festival Novruz. Some also see the colours as reflecting different social groups: workers, intellectuals, and farmers. The crown and stars are tied to Tajik heritage and the symbolic meaning of seven in local stories.

How the colours were chosen of Tajikistan

Tajikistan’s current flag was introduced in 1992, taking over from the Soviet-era design. The earlier flag, used from 1953, also featured red, white, and green, but with Soviet symbols. The colour order and the wider white stripe have been kept from that time. Under Soviet rule, red meant revolution and workers, white stood for cotton, and green for agriculture. The present flag replaced the Soviet symbols with a crown and stars, reflecting national identity and local tradition.

Official shades and rules of Tajikistan

The flag’s three stripes are not equal: the white band in the centre is one and a half times the width of the red and green stripes. The crown and seven stars are placed in the middle, fitting within a rectangle that covers most of the white area. The flag’s proportions are set at 1:2.