Flag of Qatar

Qatar

Innabi
Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	11:28
Adopted	9 July 1971

Flag and emblem of Qatar, displayed above the entrance of the Qatari Embassy in Paris

The flag of Qatar (Arabic: علم قطر) is in the ratio of 11:28. It is maroon with a broad white serrated band (nine white points) on the hoist side.

The meaning of Qatar's flag is:

• The white colour reflects the internationally recognised symbol of peace
• The maroon colour symbolizes the blood shed during the several wars OF Qatar had undergone, particularly in the second half of the 19th century.
• The nine-point serrated line indicates that Qatar is the 9th member of the "reconciled Emirates" of the Persian Gulf in the wake of concluding the Qatari-British treaty in 1916.

It is very similar to the flag of the neighbouring country Bahrain, which has fewer points, a 3:5 proportion, and a red colour instead of maroon.

Qatar's flag is the only national flag having a width more than twice its height (other than the unofficial 6:13 proportions sometimes mistakenly used for the flag of Rwanda).

History

It is assumed that, in 1855, Shaikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani already used a flag with similar pattern and the colour red and white.The flags colour was tinted darker by the sun. Thus the color was adopted, creating qatar red. The flag was officially adopted on July 9, 1971, although a nearly identical flag (only differing in proportion) had been used since 1949.

• 
  around 1916
• 
  around 1936
• 
  11:30 1949 to 1971

See also

• Qatar National Day

References

• Flag of Qatar
• Qatar at Flags of the World