Flag of Saudi Arabia
Its colour palette includes green and white.
Current flag
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Saudi Arabia
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
Visible design element: Text.
- Layout
- Plain field
- Symbols
- Text – Centre
- Colours
- Green and white
Sources
The shahada and sword on Saudi Arabia’s flag
Saudi Arabia’s green flag bears the shahada in white Arabic script, with a white sword below it. The inscription is the Islamic declaration of faith, so the flag is treated with particular respect and is manufactured so that the text reads correctly on both sides.
The sword is part of the national design, not the crossed-swords emblem used elsewhere in Saudi state symbolism. Saudi rules specify how the flag is made and displayed; broader explanations of the sword’s meaning should be attributed to the relevant official statement rather than assumed from the image.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Saudi Arabia
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Riyadh
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- SA
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- SAU
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 682
- Top-level domain
- .sa
- Area
- 1,960,580 km²
- Population
- 36,973,555 (2025)
- Currency
- SAR
- Calling code
- +966
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Saudi Arabia (1517–)
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.
Credit: Guilherme Paula CC BY-SA 2.5
Credit: Guilherme Paula CC BY-SA 2.5
Credit: Guilherme Paula CC BY-SA 2.5
Credit: Guilherme Paula CC BY-SA 2.5
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