Western Asia

United Arab Emirates

A vertical red band at the hoist with three horizontal stripes of green, white and black. It was adopted when the United Arab Emirates was founded in 1971 and uses the Pan-Arab colours.

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Adopted

1971

Proportion

1:2

Colours

Colours & their meaning

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Red

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally prescribed.

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Green

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally prescribed.

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White

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally prescribed.

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Black

Part of the Pan-Arab colours; no single official symbolism is universally prescribed.

Did you know?

The design was chosen from more than a thousand entries submitted in a national competition by Abdullah Mohammed Al Maainah.