Afghanistan: Index to All Pages

Islamic State of Afghanistan, De Afghanistan Islami Dawlat, Dawlat-e-Islami Afghanistan

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2:3; image by Juan Manuel Villascan
Flag adopted 4 January 2004

• National flags and emblems currently in use
• Historical flags
• Military Flags
• Government Flags
• Regional Flags
• Political Flags
• Flags of Ethnic Groups
• Miscellaneous flags
• Other sites
• Flags of Neighbouring Countries

• Description
• Coat-of-Arms
• Meaning of the Colours
• The Shahada
• President's flag

Historical flags

• Historical flags - index page
• 1901-1919
• 1919-1921
• 1921-1926 or 1928
• 1926 or 1928 - June or September 1928
• June or September 1928 - January 1929
• January 1929 - October 1929
• October 1929 - 1931
• 1931-1973
  • Royal Standard
• 1973-1974
• May 1974 - April 1978
• April 1978 - October 1978
• October 1978 - April 1980
• April 1980 - November 1987
• November 1987 - April 1992
• April 1992 - December 1992
• December 1992 - September 1996
• September 1996 - November 2001 (Taliban regime)
• Flags used November-December 2001
• January 2002 - January 2004
• Since January 2004

Military Flags

• Ministry of Defence
• Armed Forces Flags
• Afghanistan National Army
• Air Force
  • Roundel 1929
  • Roundel 1937-1967
  • Roundel 1967-1979
  • Roundel 1979-1983
  • Air Force Roundel ca.1985
  • Northern Alliance Air Force Roundel 2001
• Afghan National Army Officer Academy
• Marshal Fahim National Defense University

Government Flags 

• Flag of the Loya Jirga, 2003
• Ministry of Defence
• Ministry of the Interior
• Customs flag
• Afghan National Police

Regional Flags

• Kabul
• Nimroz

Political Flags

• Mujahideen and anti-Taliban groups 1992-2001
• Uzbeks under Gen. Rashid Dostum
  • People's Muslim Movement of Afghanistan
  • Pashtuns under Gen. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
  • Tadjiks under Gen. Ahmad Shah Masood
• Nuristan secessionist movement 1970's (Afghanistan)
• Al-Qaeda Flags
• Afghan Nation Party (Afghan Mellat)
• Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Hazara Democratic Party

Flags of Ethnic Groups

• Hazarajat/Hazaristan
• Josiah Harlan - The Man Who Would Be King
• Pakhtunistan
• South Turkistan

Miscellaneous Flags

• Single-coloured Afghan Flags seen around the time of the Taliban defeat
• University of Kabul
• Afghan Red Crescent Society
• Afghan flags on stamps (41 stamps)
• Sulaimankhel Tribal Council
• Unidentified Afghan flags

Other sites

• Map of Afghanistan's ethnolinguistic groups (281 kb)
• Historical Afghan Flags

Flags of Neighbouring Countries

• China
• Iran
• Pakistan
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan