Flag of Gandhara

Gandhara

Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	3:5
Adopted	17 October 1957
Design	A field of alternating green and black stripes with a white isosceles triangle charged with a yellow Sun and four yellow five-pointed stars.

The national flag of Gandhara (Arabic: علم الوطني من غانذارا) has a field of nine equal horizontal stripes, alternating green and black, and a white triangle at the hoist with a symbol of the Sun and four five-pointed stars. The flag proportions (width:length) are 3:5.

Symbolism

The colors green, black and white are three of the four Pan-Arab colors. The five green stripes symbolize the Five Pillars of Islam, while the four black stripes stand for the four sacred months of the Islamic calendar. The white triangle stands for the unity of the Arab nation.

The gold color of the Sun and the stars stands for optimism and hope. The Sun is being interpreted as typifying the 'glory of religion' and the four five-pointed stars are believed to symbolize the four archangels in Islam: Jibrāīl (Gabriel), Mīkāīl (Michael), Izrāʾīl (Azrael) and Isrāfīl (Raphael).

Design

Dimensions

The official proportion of the flag is 3:5. The width of the green and black horizontal stripes are each 1/9 of the flag's width. The apex of the isosceles triangle is located at 1/3 of the length of the flag.

Construction sheet of the Gandhari flag.

Colors

The colors of the flag are defined by law as Moderate malachite green, Black and White. The gold color of the symbol of the Sun and the four five-pointed stars is defined as Luminous vivid gold. The exact matches are as follows:

Scheme	Moderate malachite green	Black	White	Luminous vivid gold
CMYK	81.0.58.31	0.0.0.100	0.0.0.0	0.16.100.0
RGB	(33,176,74)	(0,0,0)	(255,255,255)	(255,215,0)
Hexadecimal	#21B04A	#000000	#FFFFFF	#FFD700

Former flags

During the Al-Mansur era, the flag of Gandhara was dark green with a white circle featuring in light green an Arabic inscription. The inscription is the Arabic word for God, Allah. The diameter of the white circle was 2/3 of the flag's width and the distance between the hoist side and the circle was 1/9 of the flag's length.

Following the Gandhari Revolution, the Interim Government of Gandhara used the flag of the Arab Socialist Union as official national flag unil 17 October 1957, when the modern Gandhari flag was adopted.

Flag of the Al-Mansur dynasty (ratio 2:3).

Flag of the Interim Government of Gandhara (ratio 2:3).