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- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Continent
- Asia
- Flag adopted
- 1992
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Tajikistan
Colors and meaning
Red #CC0000
The unity and sovereignty of the Tajik people
White #FFFFFF
Cotton production, historically central to the economy, and purity
Green #006600
Agriculture and, in Islamic symbolism, faith
Symbolism and history
A gold crown beneath an arc of seven stars, representing unity among Tajikistan's traditional social classes, centers a red-white-green horizontal tricolor, adopted after independence from the Soviet Union.
No documented visual overlap
Tajikistan’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Asia, for browsing:
Further reading: Flag of Tajikistan on Wikipedia