Flag of Afghanistan
Its colour palette includes white and black.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇦🇫
Afghanistan
Flag facts
Flag design
Visible design element: Text.
- Layout
- Plain field
- Symbols
- Text – Centre
- Colours
- White and black
What flag is currently used in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan's de facto Taliban authorities use a white flag bearing the shahada in black. It replaced the former Islamic Republic's black, red and green tricolour after the Taliban took effective control in August 2021. The former republic has nevertheless continued to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations, so the white flag's domestic use and the country's international representation should be distinguished.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Afghanistan
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Kabul
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- AF
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- AFG
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 004
- Top-level domain
- .af
- Area
- 647,500 km²
- Population
- 43,844,111 (2025)
- Currency
- AFN
- Calling code
- +93
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Afghanistan (1709–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
