Northern Africa
Libya
Three horizontal stripes of red, black, and green, with the black stripe double width and bearing a white crescent and five-pointed star. It restores the flag originally adopted at independence in 1951 and was readopted after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Adopted
2011
Proportion
1:2
Colours
4
Colours & their meaning
Red
No single official modern symbolism is consistently prescribed.
Black
No single official modern symbolism is consistently prescribed.
Green
No single official modern symbolism is consistently prescribed.
White
Used for the crescent and star; no separate official colour symbolism is consistently prescribed.
Symbols & emblems
Crescent
The crescent is a traditional Islamic symbol.
Five-pointed star
The star is paired with the crescent as part of the flag’s Islamic emblem.
Did you know?
From 1977 to 2011 Libya used a plain green flag, the only modern national flag consisting of a single solid colour with no markings.