Azerbaijan

What the source says

Referenced, awaiting primary-source review

Reinstated, with slight variations to the colors and size, on 5 February 1991 following the country's independence from the Soviet Union. Three horizontal stripes... light blue, red, and green. A white crescent and an eight-pointed star are in the centre. The bright blue symbolizes the Turkic heritage of Azerbaijan; the red reflects the creation of a modern state and the development of democracy; green symbolizes Islam. On 9 November 1918, a draft... horizontal tricolor of blue, red and green with a white crescent and an eight-pointed star.

(r1) Flag of Azerbaijan (Wikipedia (English)), read on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page.

Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.

Colors and meaning

Blue(r1) #00B5E2
The Turkic heritage of Azerbaijan(r1)
Red(r1) #E4002B
The creation of a modern state and the development of democracy(r1)
Green(r1) #00AF66
Islam(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A blue-red-green horizontal tricolor bears a white crescent and eight-pointed star, reinstated in 1991 from the flag first approved in 1918 by the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Most similar flags

The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.

Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.

References — not verification

(r1) Referenced to Flag of Azerbaijan (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.

Further reading: Flag of Azerbaijan on Wikipedia