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The indications of the colors of the Emirates flag
The flag of the United Arab Emirates consists of traditional Arabic colors, but these colors are characterized by special meanings for Emirati citizens, and these indications are as follows:
- the Red: Red indicates strength, firmness and courage, and it may also indicate vertical red band, and it binds all other colors of the flag together.
- the green: Green indicates love, joy, optimism and hope, and may also indicate the prosperity of the UAE.
- the White: White indicates honesty and peace; it is the purest color, and may symbolize cleanliness as well.
- the black: Black indicates strength of mind and defeat of enemies.
Emirates flag specifications
The late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan raised the Emirates flag for the first time on the second of December 1971AD, on the occasion of the announcement of the Emirates Union, and the Emirates flag is rectangular in shape, and its length is twice its width, and it consists of four colors, which are red, green, white and black, and covers each of the colors The flag is part of the total rectangle and together form a shape similar to the letter (E), the vertical part of it is covered by red, green covers the upper horizontal part, white covers the middle horizontal part, and black covers the lower horizontal part.
Emirates Flag story
It was announced that a competition for the design of a flag for the Federation of the Emirates was announced, two months before the official announcement of the Federation, and 1030 designs were submitted to this competition, filtered and six designs were chosen, then the design of the current Emirates flag belonging to Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mu’ina was chosen.
The designer of the science drew his colors from a poem by the poet Safi Al-Din Al-Hali, specifically from this house: (the eggs of our crafts .. the vegetables of our pastures .. the blacks of our facts .. the red of our pasts), and the works mean works of righteousness and the good and the well-known, the fourths the vast lands the green, the facts bloody battles, and the past The red swords because of the blood stained by the enemies.
