Flag of Morocco

Kingdom of Morocco
Use	National flagandstate ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	17 November 1915;109 years ago
Design	A red field with a greenpentagram,a five-pointed linear star.
Designed by	Mawlay Yusef

Theflag of Morocco(علم المغرب) is the flag used by the government ofMoroccoand has served as the national flag of Morocco since 17 November 1915. It has a red field with a greenpentagramin the centre. The green star represents thefive pillars of Islam,and the red represents the blood of the ancestors and unity.^[2]^[3]

Red has considerable historic significance inMoroccoby proclaiming the descent from the royal'Alawid dynasty.The ruling house was associated with the Islamicprophet MuhammadviaFatimah,the wife ofAli,the fourth MuslimCaliph.Red is also the color that was used by thesharifs of Meccaand theimams of Yemen.Since the 17th century, Morocco is ruled by the 'Alawid dynasty, and the first flags of the country were plain red.

On 17 November 1915, SultanYusefsigned adhahirthat made Morocco's flag red with a green interlacedpentangle.^[4]

While Morocco was under French and Spanish control, the red flag with the seal in the center remained in use but only inland since itsuse at seawas prohibited. When independence was restored in 1955, it once again became the national flag.

Design

The legal definition of the flag specifies that the colours are bright red and palm green. No more precise colour specifications are known to be published. The RGB colours used in the illustration on the Kingdom's website are listed below, along with rough CMYK and Pantone equivalents for printing.^[5]

Colours scheme	Bright Red	Palm Green
RGB	193-39-45	0-98-51
Hexadecimal	#c1272d	#006233
CMYK	0, 80, 77, 24	100, 0, 48, 62
Pantone	7620 C	3425 C

Construction sheet

Construction sheet of the flag of Morocco

History

In the 17th century, when Morocco became ruled by the current'Alawid dynasty,its flag was solid red at first.^{[citation needed]}TheSharifs of Makkahused that as a reference colour.

To be known from this book, may God uphold its value and to be around the centre of grace and joy itsorbit,that due to the promotion of ourSherifian Kingdomaffairs, the spread of its glory and its pride, the need to assign a flag that distinct it from the rest of the kingdoms as that our sacred ancestors flag use to be very similar to some other flags especially the ones used in the marine signs, our noble vision decided to distinct our joyful flag by making thefive-pointed seal of Solomonin the middle in green, asking the almighty god to keep it waving with the winds of fortune and ambition for this time and the becoming, Amen and peace.
— Mawlay Yusef,17 November 1915^[6]

In accordance with the seventh article of the constitution, the emblem of the Kingdom shall be a red flag with a five-pointed green star in the center.
The flag shall be made with fabric of bright red, opaque and rectangular in shape. The star shall be open, palm green, made of five continuous branches and woven in the same fabric where it must be visible on both sides of the flag. One of its points must point upwards. The hoist [vertical dimension of a flag] of the flag equals two thirds (2⁄3) of its fly [horizontal length of a flag]. The star is inscribed in an invisible circle whose radius equals one sixth (1⁄6) of the flag's fly [horizontal length of a flag] and whose centre is the intersection point of the invisible diagonal lines of the flag's rectangular shape.
The width of each one of the branches of the star shall be1⁄20of its length.
— Sidi Mohammed VI,23 November 2005^[7]

Wide and vertical presentations

On May 8, 2010, a Moroccan flag with a size of 60,409.78 square metres (650,000 sq ft; 14.9 acres), weighing 20,000 kilograms (22 short tons), was set inDakhla,a city in the disputed territory ofWestern Sahara.It was certified by theGuinness Book of World Recordsas the largest flag ever draped.^[8]