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Asia

Kuwait

Ratio: 1:2 Adopted: September 7, 1961 Usage: National and Civil

Black Green stands
represents the for fertility
defeat of the
enemy
White
symbolizes
purity

Red symbolizes the
blood of the enemy

Asia
The State of Kuwait traces its independence
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Before 1961, the flag of Kuwait, like land. The idea for the flag’s distinctive
those of other Gulf states, was red and design—a horizontal tricolor with a
white. The present flag is in the pan- black trapezium in the hoist—may
Arab colors, but each color is also have come from the flag used by Iraq
significant in its own right. Black until the late 1950s.
symbolizes the defeat of the enemy,
while red is the color of blood on the KUWAIT’S COAT OF ARMS
Kuwaiti swords. White symbolizes The arms depicts a hawk containing
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purity and green is for the fertile an Arab dhow on stylized waves.

ARMS OF KUWAIT
The inscription is
the name of the state
An Arab dhow—a
traditional sailing boat
A hawk with
outstretched wings

A shield in the
national colors

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