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Asia

Tajikistan

Ratio: 1:2 Adopted: November 24, 1992 Usage: National and Civil

The crown and
stars stand for
Tajikistan’s
state
White is the
sovereignty
color of cotton,
Tajikistan’s
main industry

Green represents
farm produce

Asia
+YRGYZ A former member of the USSR, Tajikistan
5ZBEK
4!*)+)34!. #HINA proclaimed independence in 1991, but Russian
! !FGH and communist influences remain strong.

In 1992, Tajikistan became the last of SYMBOLS OF THE NEW STATE
the former USSR republics to adopt a The center of the flag features a
new flag. The red, white, and green gold crown and an arc of seven stars.
stripes are the same as those chosen in These symbols refer to the state
1953 for the flag of the Tadzhik Soviet sovereignty of Tajikistan, friendship
Socialist Republic. Red is the color of between all nations and the
the flag of the USSR; white is for “unbreakable union of workers,
cotton, Tajikistan’s main export and peasants, and the intellectual classes”
green recalls other farm produce. of the republic.

T
T
ARMS OF TAJIKISTAN
Red, white, and
green ribbons Crown and stars from
the national flag
The mountains recall the Wheat, a major crop,
country’s many peaks surrounds the arms

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