Flag of Libya

File:Flag of Libya.svg

File:Flag of Libya.svg

Flag from 1951–1969
18 years of use

File:Flag of Libya (1969–1972).svg

Flag from 1969–1972
3 years of use

File:Flag of Libya (1972–1977).svg

Flag from 1972–1977
5 years of use

File:Flag of Libya (1977–2011).svg

Flag from 1977–2011
34 years of use

The Flag of Libya has three horizontal stripes of red, black, and green, with a white crescent and star in the center of the black stripe. It has been the official flag of Libya since 3 August 2011.

Overview

The flag is the same as the flag of the earlier Kingdom of Libya, used from 1951 to 1969. During the dictatorship of Muammar al-Gaddafi the flag was changed twice and it was just a plain field of green. It was unique for being the only national flag in the world with just one color and no design, emblems, coat of arms, or any other details. It was adopted on 11 November 1977.

Flag Of Libya Media

• Royal Standard of Idris I (1951–1969)

• Flag of Libya (without crescent and star).svg

  During the Libyan Civil War, design without the star and crescent was common on homemade flags

• Libyan protesters flag (observed 2011).svg

  Another variant also used by rebels during the Libyan Civil War, with the three stripes of the same size

• Libyan Flag Construction Ministry of Information and Guidance 1951.jpg

  The Libyan Flag & The National Anthem, English-language booklet issued by the Ministry of Information and Guidance of the Kingdom of Libya (year unknown, copy kept by the library of Swiss Vexillological Society)

• Flag of Libya (construction sheet).svg

  Flag of Libya — construction sheet

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  One of the several maritime flags of Ottoman Tripolitania used during Karamanli era (1711-1835). Based on Johnson's new chart of national emblems of 1868. A similar flag, with the crescents moved towards the hoist, is recorded in the 1750s as the naval flag of the "Turkish Emperors" (Türckische Kayser) in Flaggen aller seefahrenden Nationen.

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• Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg

  Flag of France

• Flag of Cyrenaica.svg

  Traditional banner of the Senussi and flag of Cyrenaica from 1949-1951.

Related pages

• Flag of Libya (1977–2011)