
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #007a3d
- #ffffff
- #ce1126
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
The flag of Syria, commonly known as the Syrian flag or the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, is a rectangular tricolour with three stars.
Flag of Syria on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1932; readopted 2025
The green-white-black independence flag with three red stars, restored after the fall of the Assad government.
Source: Flag of Syria on Wikipedia.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Pan-Arab Colors
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Syria is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Modification by AnonMoos of PD image File:Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg (previous non-vector versions were by Coup de crayon 2011)
From Flag of Syria (2025-).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.