Flag of the Comoros
chevron based on the hoist side charged with a white crescent and four five-pointed stars |
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The
Colours
The colours are defined in the constitution as simply yellow, white, red, blue, and green. Nowhere does the government document any specific colour shades. For lack of any official standard, the colours used at the 2012 Olympics are shown in the table below.
Scheme | Green | Yellow | White | Red | Blue |
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Pantone | 355 | 109 | Safe | 32 | 293 |
RGB | 0-150-57 | 255-209-0 | 255–255–255 | 239-51-64 | 0-61-165 |
HTML | 009639 | FFD100 | FFFFFF | EF3340 | 003DA5 |
Design
The design consists of a white
The stars' points are usually orientated upwards, as reflected in the model supplied when the flag was adopted, though legal documents concerning the flag do not specify the flag's orientation and there is a variant in which the stars point outwards and not up.[3]
History
The first official flag of Comoros was designed and adopted for local use in 1963 by Suzanne Gauthier, before Comoros gained its independence. It had a white crescent at upper
The flag changed in 1975 under Ali Soilih. The crescent was moved and the stars were rearranged into a diamond. Two thirds of the flag became red and symbolized the regime's socialist ideology. This flag shares the design to that of the Soviet-era and post-1995 Belarusian flags.[7]
When Ahmed Abdallah returned to the presidency in 1978, the flag changed again. It returned to being completely green, with the crescent moving to the centre of the flag and the stars forming a line between its horns. Information about the proportions of this variant suggest either a 1:2, 2:3, or 3:5 ratio.[8]
With the adoption of a new constitution in 1992, the flag changed again, with the crescent and stars rotated to face upward rather than down and to the right.[9]
The adoption of yet another constitution changed the flag again in 1996, rotating the flag to face the fly and adding a white inscription to the lower hoist and another to the upper fly. The inscriptions are written in Arabic calligraphy with the former reading "
From 1996 until 2001, variants of the Comorian national flag supplied mainly by Annin Flagmakers contained the names "Muhammad" and "Allah" written out in longform. A similar flag using this design was flown outside the United Nations headquarters in 2000, which caught the attention of the Comorian ambassador, resulting in him rejecting the flag flown on display.[11]
Former flags of the Comoros
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Flag of the State of the Comoros (1963–1975) from the pre-independence period before until 12 November 1975.[6]
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Flag of the State of the Comoros under the Ali Soilih Regime (November 12, 1975 – September 30, 1978)[7]
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Flag of the Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros (October 1, 1978 – June 6, 1992)[8]
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Version of the 1996–2001 flag which was rejected by the Comorian Ambassador because of an erroneous form of text.[12]
Flags of individual islands
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The flag of Anjouan
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The flag of Mohéli
References
- ^ a b c Flags of the World
- ^ Flag History of Comoros Archived 2016-10-18 at the Wayback Machine. Al Akhbar page on the flag of the Comoros. Retrieved on 2014-07-07.
- ^ a b c Berry, Bruce (10 March 2016). "Comoros". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Flag of Comoros". Gettysburg Flag Works. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ Flags and anthems manual London 2012
- ^ a b Berry, Bruce (10 March 2016). "Comoros (1963 - 1975". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b Berry, Bruce (10 March 2016). "Comoros (1975 - 1978)". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b Berry, Bruce (10 March 2016). "Comoros (1978 - 1992)". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b Berry, Bruce (10 March 2016). "Comoros (1992 - 1996)". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b Raeside, Rob (10 March 2016). "Comoros (1996 - 2001)". Flags of the World. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ "Comoros: Variations of the 1996-2001 flag". www.fotw.info. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
- ^ "Comoros: Variations of the 1996-2001 flag". Flags of the World.
External links
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