Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #239e46
- #e70013
Other flags with red, green or black or all of red, green and black at once.
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
A white star and crescent is located in the center of the flag.
Flag of Libya on Wikipedia
- crescent
A white star and crescent is located in the center of the flag.
Flag of Libya on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Omar Faiek Shennib is credited with the design, presented to the Libyan National Constitutional Convention and approved by King Idris Al Senussi; it flew from independence in 1951 until 1969. Between 1977 and 2011 Libya's flag was plain green, the only national flag in the world with one colour and no design, and this one was readopted by the National Transitional Council on 3 August 2011. Shennib's account gives red for the blood sacrificed for the freedom of Libya, black for the years of Italian occupation and green for agriculture.
Drafted from Flag of Libya on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Its day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one of them, with the sentence that says so.
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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Libya is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 960 × 480
Credit Various The SVG code is valid. This vector image was created with a text editor.
From Flag of Libya.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
