The flag of Iraq

The colours

What the flag of Iraq is made of

Counted off the file rather than read out of it. Every pixel of a 320-pixel rendering is sorted into a colour, so the share below is the share of the flag a person actually sees, and an emblem’s interior shades do not outrank a band covering a third of the field.

• #cd112534.3% of the field
• #ffffff31.4% of the field
• #00000034.3% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Iraq are drawn in. Nothing on this site takes a country’s colours from anywhere but its own flag.

The shape

Its proportion and its dates

Proportion

2:3height to width

As a ratio

1.5width divided by height

Adopted

22 January 2008

Emoji

🇮🇶derived from the ISO code

File

/flags/iq.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Before this one

The flags Iraq flew before

Every flag on record with a start and an end date, oldest first. A flag change is a constitutional event and the dates are the point: the years below are the years each design was the flag, not the years anybody designed it.

–1958

Flag of Iraq (1924–1959)Public domain

1959–1963

Flag of Iraq (1959–1963)Public domain

1963–1991

Flag of Iraq (1963–1991)Public domain

1991–2004

Flag of Iraq (1991–2004)Public domain

2004–2008

Flag of Iraq (2004–2008)Public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Iraq