prepared by
Iraj Bashiri
copyright 1997
| Tajikistan | |
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Adopted November 24, 1992 three horizontal stripes: red over white over green centered on the white, a gold crown with seven stars above it. The ensemble represents state sovereignty; unbreakable unity of workers, peasants and intellectuals; and friendship and brotherhood among all nationalities.
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| Tajikistan's Soviet flag before 1992
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| Adopted June 4, 1992 sky blue field golden sun with 32 gold rays below the sun a golden eagle in flight; symbol of freedom and aspirations on the hoist side is a "national ornamentation" in gold.
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| Adopted 1992; green field green field with a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls (designs used in producing rugs) stacked above two crossed olive branches similar to the olive branches on the UN flag; a white crescent moon and five white stars representing the five regions of Turkmenistan appear in the upper corner of the field just to the fly side of the red stripe |
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| Adopted March 3, 1992 at center, a yellow sun symbolizes light, nobility, and eternity; 40 rays represent the 40 Kyrgyz tribes led by Manas; on the obverse side the rays run counterclockwise, on the reverse, clockwise; within the sun is a stylized representation of the tunduk or peak of a yurta.
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| Adopted September 30, 1991 Three horizontal stripes: blue over white over green stripes are separated by red fimbriations on the blue stripe, at the upper hoist-side, are a white crescent moon and 12 stars arranged in rows of three, four, and five new moon stands for the rebirth of the nation and the 12 stars represent the signs of the zodiac. |
| Afghanistan | |
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Washigton 28-Jan-02 (Reuters) |
| Afghanistan's Current flag (adopted 2002)
Three vertical stripes: black on the left, red in the middle, green on the right. | |
Three equal vertical bands of black (hoist), red, and green with a gold emblem centered on the red band; the emblem features a temple-like structure encircled by a wreath on the left and right and by a bold Islamic inscription above |
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White background with the following written in green Arabic script: "There is no god but God and Mohamed is his Prophet" | 
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| Azerbaijan | |
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| Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), red, and green; a crescent and eight-pointed star in white are centered in red band
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Sources:
Edmund Midura's "Flying High" Aramco World, vol. 48, no. 3, May/June 1997.
Flags courtesy of ITA's Flags of All Countries used with permission.
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