The newest world flags

Continent

Year of the change

Description of the change

Country

Africa

1996

A blue disc with a yellow star overlapping the green and red stripes.

Africa

1996

Five different coloured bands starting from one end and diverging towards the other end.

Europe

1998

A blue ensign with a yellow right triangle and seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom.

Asia

2001

Modification in the design of carpets and the addition of two crossed olive branches.

Africa

2001

A horizontal tricolour of blue (double width), yellow and green; charged with a sun-yellow sun in the upper-hoist side corner.

Asia

2002

Four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue, with a green chevron based on the hoist side charged with a white crescent and four five-pointed stars.

Asia

2002

Reduction to five of the triangles that serve as a serrated line.

Asia

2002

A black triangle bearing a white five-pointed star over a larger yellow triangle based on the hoist, on a red field.

Asia

2002

Addition of the shahadah at the top of the coat of arms.

Asia

2004

White rectangle, with a large red cross. In the four corners there are four Bolnur-Katskhuri crosses of the same color.

Continent

Year of the change

Description of the change

Country

Europe

2004

A red field surrounded by a golden border; charged with a two-headed eagle at the centre.

Europe

2004

The coat of arms is moved to the left in a horizontal tricolour of red, blue and white.

Africa

2006

Back to the flag used between 1963 and 1971, but making a small change in the shade of blue that now it´s clearer.

America

2006

The addition of one more star to make a total of 8.

Africa

2006

Horizontal blue, white, and green tricolour with a black mokorotlo (a Basotho hat) in the centre.

Asia

2008

The 3 green stars were removed and remains only the Takbir.

Africa

2010

Re-adoption of the first flag with an horizontal triband of black, red, and green; charged with a red rising sun centred on the black stripe.

Asia

2010

A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre.

Africa

2011

A horizontal tricolour of black, red, and green, fimbriated with white stripes; with a blue equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bearing a gold star.

Africa

2011

Re-adoption of the first flag with an horizontal triband of red, black (double width) and green; charged with a white crescent and five-pointed star centred on the black stripe.