is a tricolour featuring three equally sized horizontal bands of blue, red, and green, with a white crescent and an eight-pointed star centered in the red. The blue symbolises Azerbaijan’s Turkic heritage, the red stands for progress, and the green represents Islam. The official colors and size were adopted on February 5, 1991. The flag is referred to in the Constitution and mentioned two times in the national anthem. On land, the flag is used as the civil, state and war flag; at sea, it is used as the civil, state, and naval ensign, as well as the naval jack. The flag also has official status in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
The tricolour replaced an earlier design used by the Azerbaijan SSR.
A presidential decree declared November 9 as the national Flag Day.
The national flag of Azerbaijan consists of three horizontal equal strips. The upper strip is of blue color, the middle-of red, the lower is green. In the center of the flag, on the red strip, there is an eight-pointed star and crescent; both are white. The basic description of the flag, along with the ratio, can be found in the Constitution of Azerbaijan that was adopted on November 12, 1995:
State flag of the Azerbaijan Republic consists of three horizontal stripes of same width. Upper stripe is blue, middle stripe is red, and the lower one is green; in the middle of red stripe on both sides of the flag white crescent with eight-pointed star are depicted. Width of the flag constitutes half of its length.—Article 23.II of the Constitution
Further specifications of the national flag was set out in the Presidential Decree “On the National Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan” issued on February 5, 1991. The ratio was kept at 1:2, which was used in the Soviet era. Each stripe is 1/3rd of the total height of the flag and extends to the full length of the flag. The star and crescent were placed in a box that has a ratio of 3:4; the crescent is shifted 1/60th from the center of the flag. At the outside diameter of both the crescent and the red inside circle, it will intersect with the diameter of the white eight-pointed star. The diameter of the star is 1/6th of the height of the flag; the inscribed circle in this star is 1/12th of the height of the flag. The flag is also described in the technical specification “AZS 001-2006. Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Bayrağı. Texniki şərtlər.” published by the State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and Patents of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2006.
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