Flag of Syria
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| Other names | Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic,
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| Use | National flag   |
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | 14 May 1930 (first adopted under a 1:2 ratio) Late 2011 (first used by the Syrian opposition) 8 December 2024 (first used by the Syrian caretaker government, de facto) 13 March 2025 (official adoption) |
| Designed by | Parliamentary committee led by Ibrahim Hananu. |
The national flag of Syria, commonly known as the Syrian flag or the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, is a rectangular tricolour with three stars. It consists of three equal horizontal stripes of green, white, and black from top to bottom, with three red five-pointed stars centered in the white stripe.
The design was first used as the independence flag, a green, white, and black horizontal triband charged with three red five-pointed stars, during the First and Second Syrian Republics. The independence flag's green stripe represented the Rashidun Caliphate, the white stripe represented the Umayyad Caliphate, and the black stripe represented the Abbasid Caliphate. Originally, the three red stars represented the three states of Syria: the State of Aleppo, the State of Damascus, and the State of Deir ez-Zor.
After gaining full independence from France in 1946, Syria has used a number of different flags, all featuring the pan-Arab colors of green, black, white, and red. In Ba'athist Syria, this was replaced by the flag of the United Arab Republic with a red, white and black triband with either two or three green stars or charged with the national coat of arms. Following the fall of the Assad regime, the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham-dominated Syrian caretaker government restored the independence flag, also called the revolution flag, and the Constitutional Declaration of 2025 formally designated the revolution flag as the flag of Syria under a 2:3 proportion.