Flag of Bahrain
The flag has 2 vertical bands from hoist to fly: white · red.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇧🇭
Bahrain
Flag facts
- Legal basis
- Legislative Decree No. 4 of 2002 on the Flag
Flag design
The flag has 2 vertical bands from hoist to fly: white · red.
- Layout
- Vertical bands
- Number of bands
- 2
- Details
- Unequal-width bands and Serrated edge
- Colours
- White and red
Sources
Flag comparisons
Five white points on Bahrain’s flag
Bahrain’s flag has a white panel at the hoist and a larger red field, separated by a serrated line with five white points. The points are commonly associated with the Five Pillars of Islam.
Qatar’s flag also has a serrated edge, but it uses maroon rather than Bahrain’s red and has nine points. Comparing the colour and the number of points is more reliable than relying on the similar outline alone.
Sources
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Bahrain
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Manama
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- BH
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- BHR
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 048
- Top-level domain
- .bh
- Area
- 665 km²
- Population
- 1,600,366 (2025)
- Currency
- BHD
- Calling code
- +973
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Bahrain (976–)
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.