- Capital
- Ramallah
- Continent
- Asia
- Flag adopted
- 1964
- Designer
- Not individually credited
State of Palestine
Colors and meaning
Black #000000
The Abbasid Caliphate
White #FFFFFF
The Umayyad Caliphate
Green #007A3D
The Fatimid Caliphate
Red #CE1126
The Hashemite dynasty and the Arab Revolt of 1916
Symbolism and history
A black-white-green pan-Arab tricolor with a red hoist triangle, adopted by the PLO in 1964 directly from the flag of the 1916 Arab Revolt, the same source flag that produced Jordan's, Kuwait's and Sudan's designs.
Closest-looking flags
Jordan
Shares the Arab Revolt's black-white-green-and-red-triangle template with Jordan's flag almost exactly, differing only in the absence of Jordan's white star.
Kuwait
Shares the Arab Revolt's black-white-green-and-red-triangle template with Jordan's flag almost exactly, differing only in the absence of Jordan's white star.
Sudan
Shares the Arab Revolt's black-white-green-and-red-triangle template with Jordan's flag almost exactly, differing only in the absence of Jordan's white star.
Egypt
Shares the Arab Revolt's black-white-green-and-red-triangle template with Jordan's flag almost exactly, differing only in the absence of Jordan's white star.
Further reading: Flag of State of Palestine on Wikipedia
