Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #007a3d
- #ffffff
- #c4111b
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.
- a triangle at the pole
A wedge whose base is the whole pole edge, widest halfway down, in a colour the fly side is not painted in.
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 national flag of Western Sahara or the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic uses a national flag consisting of a black, white and green horizontal tricolor charged with a red star and crescent in the center stripe and a red chevron at the hoist.
Flag of Western Sahara on Wikipedia
- crescent
The national flag of Western Sahara or the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic uses a national flag consisting of a black, white and green horizontal tricolor charged with a red star and crescent in the center stripe and a red chevron at the hoist.
Flag of Western Sahara on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic adopted this as its official flag on 27 February 1976, and the design is said to be El Uali Mustafá Sayed's, the SADR's first president. SADR-controlled areas fly it; on the occupied parts of Western Sahara the Moroccan flag is used; the two parties signed a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in 1991, and the sovereignty of the territory remains unresolved pending ongoing peace-talks. The Palestinian flag is the model for the design, and that flag took its colors from the Arab Revolt.
Drafted from Flag of Western Sahara 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
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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. Western Sahara is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 600 × 300
Credit El Uali Mustafá Sayed from Polisario Front
From Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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