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Flag of Kuwait
Use	Civil and state flag and national ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	7 September 1961
Design	A horizontal tricolour of Green, white and red with a black trapezium on the hoist side.

The flag of Kuwait (Arabic: علم الكويت‎) was adopted on September 7, 1961 and officially hoisted November 24, 1961.

Before 1961, the flag of Kuwait, like those of other Gulf states, was red and white. The present flag is in the Pan-Arab colours, but each colour is also significant in its own right. Black represents the defeat of the enemy, while red is the colour of blood on the Kuwaiti swords. White symbolizes purity, and green is for the fertile land. The idea for the flag's distinctive design (a horizontal tricolour with a black trapezium in the hoist) may have come from the flag used by Iraq until the late 1959.

The colours' meaning came from a poem by Safie Al-Deen Al-Hali:

White are our deeds
Black are our battles
Green are our lands
Red are our swords

Rules of hanging and flying the flag:

Horizontally: The green stripe should be on top.
Vertically: The green stripe should be on the right side of the flag.

Peter Lynn's Kuwaiti Flag kite

In 2005, it became the design of the world's largest kite at a size of 1019 square metres. It was made in New Zealand by Peter Lynn, launched to the public for the first time in 2004 in the United Kingdom, officially launched in Kuwait in 2005, and has not been surpassed since.

[edit] Emir's flag

The current emir of Kuwait is not known to have a personal royal standard. It is a possibility that he uses the national flag as his own. In photographs he appears with the national flag with a golden fringe. Formerly the flag of the emir was the national one with a yellow crown on the green stripe.

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