Flag History | red represents universal brotherhood, white for purity and virtue. The crescent stands for “ a young country on the ascent in its ideals of establishing democratic peace, progress, justice and euality as indicated by the five stars.” |
Flag Date of Adoption | 3 December 1959 |
Flag Symbolism | two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and white; near the hoist side of the red band, there is a vertical, white crescent (closed portion is toward the hoist side) partially enclosing five white five-pointed stars arranged in a circle |