Uzbekistan

Republic of Uzbekistan, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi

Last modified: 2025-09-20 by victor lomantsov
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On this page:

• Description of the Flag
• Construction sheet
• Color specification
• Vertical variant and colours
• State emblem (coat of arms)
• Erroneous reported flag, 1992
• Presidential flag

See also:

• Military Flags
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  • Air Force flag
  • National Guard flag
  • Aircraft marking
• Governmental Bodies Flags
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • Ministry of Defense
  • Ministry of Emergency Situations
  • Prosecutor Office
  • Custom Service
  • Central Bank of Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan Sport flags
  • National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan
  • National Paralympic Association of Uzbekistan
  • Uzbekistan Football Association
  • Uzbekistan Professional Football League
  • Special Olympics Uzbekistan
• Tashkent City (the capital of Uzbekistan) flag
• Official descriptions of the flag of Uzbekistan (outside link)
• Official descriptions of the coat of arms of Uzbekistan (outside link)
• Karakalpakstan
• Khiva
• Bukhara
• Freedom Democratic Party (ERK)
• Central Asian Khanates
• Uzbekian SSR (USSR)
• Bukharian PSR (USSR)

Uzbekistan was the first central Asia republic to declare its sovereignty and to adopt post-Communist symbols. The flag of Uzbekistan is a light blue over white over light green tricolour, with thin red stripes separating the three stripes. In the upper hoist corner is a white crescent and 12 white stars.

Oddly, although Uzbekistan is a predominantly Muslim country, and the crescent is a symbol of Islam, the symbolism for the crescent moon is described as being representative of the rebirth of the nation, rather than its religion.

The 12 stars stand for the zodiac. White is for peace, green for nature, and red for the life force. The blue stripe stands for eternal night and for water as a fundamental source of life.
Stuart Notholt

According Album 2000: national Flag is blue over white over green tricolour with stripes fimbriated red and in canton white crescent and 12 white five-pointed stars, 3-4-5 "fly-justified". (CSW/---). Ratio 1:2.

For the colours are given official Pantone shades:
blue 313c, green 361c. Željko Heimer, 29 August 2002

Twelve stars are interpreted in two ways: The first one is the most reasonable and logical: there are twelve districts (viloyatlar) in the country and the crescent stands for Islam. The colors of the horizontal tricolor (blue-white-green, with two narrow red stripes separating the white from the blue and green) are interpreted as blue -- sky, white -- justice and green -- hospitability of the Uzbek people. The red stands for strength. The second version interprets the twelve stars as twelve months of the ancient calendar, and white in this version stands for cotton - the monoculture of Central Asia. Sergey Petrov, 1 February 2003

According Znamierowski blue was the colour of Tamerlan's banner and of several Turkish peoples. Tamerlan might be better known in English as Timur. Ivan Sache, 3 February 2003

Another explanation

As an Uzbekistan resident I think that the 12 stars are for the 12 oblasts or villoyets of Uzbekistan. The Karakalpaks have 5 stars for the same reason.
Guy Cosnahan, 17 November 2000

At http://bcc.com.uz/~yamurat/flag.htm we have a SYMBOLIC DESCRIPTION OF NATIONAL FLAG Of Uzbekstan.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 September 2002

Construction sheet according Law on state flag of 18, November, 1991 (as published in Official Gazette No. 141 of 28 November 1991). The measures in the legislation are given in centimeters, but since some are end in half centimeters, doubling of those numbers provide a reasonable unit. So:
- Overall flag measures 250x500
- Horizontal stripes 80+5+80+5+80
- Distance hoist - crescent 40
- Rectangle containing crescent and stars 60x150
- Diameter of circle circumscribing each star 12
- Distance between the circles 12
- Distance between horns of crescent to the hoistmost star-circle 7
- The diameter of the outer circle of the crescent is then, of course 60.
Željko Heimer, Christopher Southworth and Victor Lomantsov, 1 September 2002 - 2 March 2003

Color specification prepared by Zoltan Horvath, 11 December 2024;

The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 ) provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC believed the flag to be.
For Uzbekistan: PMS 285 blue, 485 red, 361 green. The vertical flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise
Ian Sumner, 11 October 2012

by Zoltan Horvath

The current coa retains many parts of the old SSR COA: the grain and cotton wreaths, the ribbon (in the national colours now) with inscription, the sun, and even the star: this is, however, an eight-pointed blue star now instead of the communist five-pointed red star.
M. Schmöger, 16 September 2001

The refered eight pointed blue star seems to be the symbol "Start of Rub el Hizb", found in Unicode under U+06DE. This is an islamic sign (one more) and is found in other emblem and flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 December 2002

Coat of arms adopted by Law on 2 July 1992. The bird in the text of Law have the name "Khumo" - symbol of happiness and love to freedom.
Victor Lomantsov, 20 January 2004

by Zoltan Horvath

The official language of Uzbekistan is Uzbek. Until 1992 it was written with Cyrillic characters and since then it has been written with Latin characters. See the image of Wikimedia (Image by "TilmannR", Wikimedia Commons More information (with current coa image) about the state symbols on the web of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in the United States
Jose Antonio Jimenez Ruiz, 10 July 2019

Latinization of Uzbek characters started in 1993. But the COA was changed only in 2010; Law from 24 December 2010. The name of the state written on the COA since 2010 is "O‘zbekiston".
Victor Lomantsov, 10 October 2019

by Tomislav Šipek

Uzbekistan presidental flag from https://www.gov.uz/en/news/view/37068
Tomislav Šipek, 9 July 2023

The standard (flag) of the president was adopted by Law on 15 October 2021 (Law No ZRU-724) but this Law have no description of the flag. Only words: “Description of the sign and standard (flag) of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the procedure for their official use are determined by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”. The Law was published 26 October 2021. The flag was firstly displayed at the inauguration ceremony of the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev 6 November 2021.
Victor Lomantsov, 9 July 2023

Images of the flag from https://president.uz/: Image 1, Image 2
Zoltan Horvath, 11 December 2024