Tunisia Flag: Meaning, History, Colors & Pictures

The Tunisia flag has a red field with a centered white disk containing a red crescent and a red five-pointed star. Its height:length ratio is 2:3. In the standard front view, the crescent opens toward the right, while one star point faces left and its center sits slightly right of the disk’s center.

The formal national designation is the flag of the Republic of Tunisia, also commonly called the Tunisian flag. That name identifies the ordinary national design: a red rectangle with the white disk, red crescent, and red star. It distinguishes the flag from a presidential version or another institutional emblem.

The national flag uses red and white. This digital edition declares red #E70013, or RGB 231, 0, 19, and white #FFFFFF, or RGB 255, 255, 255, matching the inspected reference SVG. These are reproduction values; the official technical color dossier mentioned in the 1999 law was not obtained.

The flag represents Tunisian national identity and sovereignty. Common reference explanations connect red with sacrifice in resisting oppression and white with peace. The crescent and star carry Islamic and Ottoman associations. These interpretations should be distinguished from the legal construction rules, which specify the design rather than a complete symbolic glossary.

Red is commonly interpreted as recalling the blood and sacrifice of those who resisted oppression. It also belongs to the flag’s historical relationship with Ottoman red ensigns. In the actual design, one red appears throughout the field, crescent, and star; the law does not assign each red shape a separate meaning.

The white disk provides the contrasting central area containing the red crescent and star and is commonly associated with peace. Its center is exactly at the rectangle’s center, and its diameter is one third of the flag’s length. In this 2:3 rectangle, that diameter also equals half the flag’s height.

The crescent is formed between two circular arcs. The outer circle shares the white disk’s center and has diameter one quarter of the flag’s length. The inner circle shares the star’s offset center and has diameter one fifth of the length. Their overlap leaves the red crescent on the hoist side.

The Tunisian flag has one red star with five evenly spaced outer points. Their enclosing circle has diameter 15 percent of the flag’s length. This reconstruction uses a regular pentagram, with one point directed left along the horizontal median, and keeps the star separate from the surrounding crescent.

The flag’s height:length ratio is 2:3, meaning that its length is one and a half times its height. The supplied master is 9,000 by 6,000 units. The 1999 law describes the shorter dimension as two thirds of the length and places the pole attachment along the left short edge.

Start with a 9,000 by 6,000 red rectangle. Add the white disk at 4,500, 3,000 with radius 1,500. Place the red outer crescent circle there with radius 1,125, then the white inner circle at 4,800, 3,000 with radius 900. Finish with the regular red star centered at that second point.

No. The white disk and the crescent’s outer circle share the flag’s center, but the star and the inner circle sit one thirtieth of the flag’s length toward the fly. In this master, the two centers are 4,500, 3,000 and 4,800, 3,000, respectively, a horizontal separation of 300 units.

In the usual front view with the hoist at the left, the crescent opens toward the right, or fly. One outer point of the star faces left along the horizontal median. The star’s center is slightly right of the disk center, so its left-facing point extends back toward the crescent.

In the supplied exact vector construction, red covers approximately 90.6410 percent of the rectangle and visible white covers 9.3590 percent. The complete white disk would occupy 13.0900 percent before the red crescent and star are placed over it. These are calculated geometric shares, not official symbolic percentages.

The flag developed under Hussein II Bey in the nineteenth century, within Tunisia’s Ottoman-era political and maritime setting. Tunisian commemorations associate its creation with October 20, 1827, and institutional summaries commonly give 1831 for adoption. Other accounts give 1835; a recent TAP historical report explicitly acknowledges disagreement among historians.

The adoption is usually dated to 1831 in Tunisian institutional accounts, while Britannica gives 1835. The package retains that difference instead of claiming an undisputed exact day. Independence in 1956 did not introduce a wholly new national design, and the detailed construction law of June 30, 1999 is a later standardization milestone.

Hussein II Bey is associated with ordering the flag’s creation in Tunisian historical accounts. That attribution concerns a ruler’s commission and the establishment of a national emblem, rather than proof of a surviving signed drawing by an individual artist. Modern SVG contributors are credited separately for preparing later digital reproductions.

Article 8 of the 2022 Constitution describes the red flag with a central white circle containing a red five-pointed star surrounded by a red crescent, as specified by law. Organic Law 99-56 of June 30, 1999 provides the detailed construction. Older constitutional article numbers should not be mistaken for the current provision.

The 1999 law specifies the rectangular proportions, disk, star position and size, and the two crescent arcs. Its Gazette footnote records parliamentary adoption on June 29; the law is dated June 30 and appears in the July 6 issue. These dates concern formal construction rules, not the flag’s nineteenth-century origin.

Tunisia retained the recognizable national design when it became independent on March 20, 1956 and when the republic was proclaimed on July 25, 1957. These are separate political milestones. The 1959 Constitution later described the republican flag, while the 1999 law supplied detailed measurements for reproducing the established emblem.

The United States recognized Tunisia’s independence from France on March 22, 1956, and Tunisia entered the United Nations on November 12, 1956. These diplomatic milestones followed independence on March 20. They are distinct from the flag’s much earlier origins and do not constitute approval of a particular modern flag drawing.

Tunisia places a red crescent and red star inside a centered white disk on a red field. Türkiye uses a white crescent and white star directly on a red field, without Tunisia’s white disk. The countries share a historical visual vocabulary, but the actual national arrangements are distinct and should not be interchanged.

Earlier Tunisian history includes dynastic, maritime, military, and religious banners that served different purposes. They should not all be treated as successive versions of one modern national flag. The nineteenth-century red-white crescent-and-star design emerged from that wider setting, and historical reports describe several traditions rather than one simple replacement sequence.

The ordinary national flag has no inscription. Article 3 of the 1999 law describes a special flag for the president with a gold Arabic inscription and associated presentation details. That version should be identified separately. The clean files in this package depict the ordinary national flag, without the additional presidential elements.

No. The ordinary Tunisian national flag consists of the red field, white disk, red crescent, and red five-pointed star; it does not include the coat of arms. The 2022 Constitution treats the flag and arms in separate provisions. Adding a shield or other heraldic artwork would alter this national flag design.

Use a complete, correctly proportioned flag with the proper emblem orientation and colors, and keep explanatory labels outside its rectangle. For official ceremonies, follow the responsible institution’s applicable protocol. This article provides an accurate reference drawing; it does not establish a universal order of precedence, mourning schedule, or vertical display rule.

A clockwise quarter-turn of the complete horizontal flag produces a tall rectangle with height:width 3:2. In that geometric illustration, the crescent opening points downward and the star rotates with it. This demonstrates the transformation of the design; it is not a universal instruction for an official vertical installation.

In a flat geometric model, the reverse is the left-right reflection of the front. The crescent then opens to the left, and the star’s offset and point orientation reverse with it. The white disk remains centered. This change of viewpoint does not introduce a second national design or a different palette.

The ideal design has reflection symmetry across its horizontal centerline: flipping top and bottom preserves the arrangement. It does not have left-right reflection symmetry or half-turn symmetry, because those operations reverse the crescent opening and star orientation. The centered white disk alone has more symmetry than the complete national flag.

Resize both dimensions together and keep the complete 2:3 rectangle, circular disk, offset star, and crescent opening. The 9,000 by 6,000 PNG corresponds to 30 by 20 inches at 300 pixels per inch. Use the SVG when scalable geometry is needed, and proof physical colors on the intended material.

At small sizes, preserve the white disk, visible crescent opening, and recognizable five-pointed star. Antialiasing blends pixels along curved and diagonal edges, so inspect the actual display size instead of judging only the large master. Keep the 2:3 rectangle and avoid sharpening that introduces outlines or closes the white gaps.