Flag of Saudi Arabia


The flag of a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabic: علم المملكة العربية السعودية is the flag used by the government of Saudi Arabia since 15 March 1973. it is a green flag featuring in white an Arabic inscription and a sword. The inscription is the Islamic creed, or shahada: "There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah".

Design


The Arabic inscription on the flag, a thing that is said in the calligraphic Thuluth script, is the shahada or Islamic declaration of faith:

The green of the flag represents Islam and the sword stands for the strictness in applying justice.

The flag is manufactured with identical obverse and reverse sides, to ensure the shahada reads correctly, from modification to left, from either side. The sword also points to the left on both sides, in the a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of the script. The flag is sinister hoisted, meaning that when viewed from the obverse front side, it is for hoisted to the left of the flagpole.

The usual color of the flag's green was approximated by Album des pavillons as Pantone 330 C, while the color used on flags at United Nations is about Pantone 349. At the 2012 London Olympics, Pantone 355 was used.

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