Different Countries with Green and White Flags

Many countries of the world have green flags, but they don’t always occur in combination with white. In this article, you’ll find out the meaning behind the colors green and white when they appear together on national flags. We’ve provided a picture for each, and if you’d like to know any more about any of these countries and their flags, click on the hyperlink of the country name to reach a dedicated article about each.

Algeria

The North African country of Algeria uses green as well as a crescent moon and star to symbolize its Islamic cultural heritage. White in the flag may represent purity or the peace the country found after its armed struggle for independence.

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is located between Russia and Iran. Its flag uses the color green as a colored band at the bottom of the flag, and white in the crescent moon and star in the center. These colors and symbols represent Azaerbaijan’s Islamic cultural heritage.

Belarus

Belarus, a neighbor of Russia and Poland, uses a red, green, and white flag. Green is said to symbolize life. No interpretation of the color white is given, but it is part of a traditional Belarussian embroidered design depicted on the hoist side of the flag. Note, however, that the term “Belarus” means “White Russian,” so this would be a possible association with the color.

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Bulgaria

The white of Bulgaria’s flag represents the virtues of peace, love, and freedom. The green represents agriculture, one of the key economic underpinnings of the country.

Burundi

Burundi, an East African country, flies a red, green, and white flag. Green represents the country’s future development and white represents peace.

Comoros

The island nation of Comoros is located in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and the African mainland. The colors green and white are found in a triangle, with a crescent moon and four stars. Green is associated with Islamic culture, as are the moon and stars. The four stripes of the flag represent the four islands of the group. The white one is for Mayotte, which is still under French control but claimed by Comoros.

Djibouti

Djibouti is a small, strategic country at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. Green in the country’s flag represents the earth and the Afar people group. White is a color of peace.

Equatorial Guinea

In the flag of Equatorial Guinea, a West African nation, green symbolizes the country’s natural resources, agriculture, and jungles. White symbolizes peace.

The Gambia

In the flag of the West African country of The Gambia, green represents the land, and white stands for unity, peace, and purity.

Hungary

Hungary’s flag is known as a horizontal tricolor. In this flag, white represents the country’s rivers and green its mountains.

Iran

Green is a popular color in the flags of Islamic countries like Iran. Iran also uses white in the national flag to symbolize peace.

Italy

In the flag of Italy, green symbolizes the values of equality, freedom, and hope, and white symbolizes faith.

Lebanon

In the flag of Lebanon, white represents snow, which is also a symbol of purity and peace. Green is used on the flag in a depiction of a cedar of Lebanon. Cedar trees have grown in the dry Mediterranean climate and altitude of Lebanon since ancient times. In the Bible, they were used as a symbol of strength and wealth.

Lesotho

In the flag of the southern African country of Lesotho, white stands for peace, and green for prosperity.

Madagascar

The flag of Madagascar, an island country off the southeast coast of Africa, uses white to stand for purity and green for both its verdant coastal regions and its future hope.

Maldives

In the flag of the Indian Ocean nation of Maldives, green represents wealth and peace, as well as being a favored color of Islam. The white crescent moon and star are also Islamic symbols.

Mexico

Mexico’s flag uses green to represent hope and victory, and white to represent national unity.

Nigeria

In the flag of the large West African nation of Nigeria, green bands stand for the wealth of the country and the white band represents peace.

Oman

Oman’s flag uses white to represent peace and green to symbolize fertile land. Green is typically used in the flags of Islamic countries, like Oman.

Pakistan

Pakistan is a predominantly Islamic country. The color green and the crescent moon and star are symbols of Islam. The white stripe on the hoist side of the flag represents the country’s religious minorities.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is where Islam began and the site of the religion’s most holy city, Mecca. The flag is predominantly green, the most popular color associated with Islam. The white sword represents strictly applied justice. The white script is a verse from the Qur’an that is the key Muslim profession of faith: “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is His Messenger.”

Seychelles

In the flag of the island nation of Seychelles, white symbolizes justice and harmony, and green symbolizes the land.

Sierra Leone

The nation of Sierra Leone uses green to represent the country’s mountains and farmland and white for the virtues of unity and justice.

South Africa

The South African flag was designed to help bring together an ethnically divided nation. Green in the flag represents the natural environment and white represents peace and unity.

Syria

In the Syrian flag, the color choices are taken from the flag of the Arab liberation movement. Each of the colors represents one of the historic dynasties that ruled the Arab world.

Togo

In the West African country of Togo, white represents future hope, and green symbolizes the country’s forests and agriculture.

Uzbekistan

In the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, the flag uses white as a symbol of peace and good luck and green as a symbol of new life and an abundant harvest.

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