Flag of Tajikistan
The flag of Tajikistan was officially launched on 24 November 1992.
Importance
The national flag is equal to the color of her with the flag of Iran and points to the ethnic solidarity of these peoples. That the arrangement of colors that of the flag of Hungary design shall be coincidence. While the Hungarian flag all stripes are of equal width, the middle white stripe of the Tajik flag is wider (red: white: green 2:3:2 ).
The colors will be awarded the following meanings:
- Green symbolizes the few, at the same time much needed valleys of the country dominated by mountains
- White stands for snow and cotton the main wealth of the nation
- Red is the color of the unity of the people and brotherhood with the nations of the world
The ring is probably points to the country's name, Tajikistan, in which infected the word for crown. Crown and stars symbolize the sovereignty of the country, the friendship between all nationalities and the unity of workers, peasants and intellectuals.
History
Used In the Soviet Union, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic flag of the Soviet Union with a white and a green horizontal stripes, the national colors. Tajikistan was the last of 15 Soviet republics, adopted this new form of flags of the Soviet Republic on March 20, 1953. Before that had the flags of Soviet republics under the hammer and sickle only the name of the Republic.
Even when independence was allowed to under successor states of the Soviet Union the longest time to adopt a new national flag. Between 1991 and 1992 remote to only the communist hammer and sickle symbols.
? Interim flag 1991-1992
Swell
- Flags of the world - Tajikistan (English)
- Description by the Tajik Embassy in the U.S.