ALL flags of Asia

Flags are used as symbols by the vast majority of nations in this world, serving as a way to distinguish the different countries that make up the world. To know the flags of the largest continent on the planet in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we must talk about the asia flags.

Index

1. Central Asian flags
2. Flags of Western Asia
3. South Asia
4. Eastern Asia
5. Southeast Asian flags

Within the Asian countries, We are going to discover the existing flags depending on the area in which they are. Central Asia is historically characterized by its nomadic peoples and by being part of the Silk Road it is the least extensive area in all of Asia. Due to its past, the area is a mixture of Iranian, Turkish and other nomadic nations, being the origin of the following flags:

• Kazakhstan: Sky blue flag with an eagle, a Sun and a side print all in gold.
• Kyrgyzstan: Red flag with a yellow Sun in its center.
• Tajikistan: Red, green and white horizontal lines twice as wide as the other two, with a golden crown in the center.
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• Turkmenistan: Green flag with a crescent moon and five stars, an olive branch and five emblems based on the nation's flags.
• Uzbekistan: Blue, white and green horizontal lines in whose upper zone we find a crescent moon and twelve stars.

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Another of the flags of Asia that we are going to know are those found in Western Asia, corresponding to what we call Middle east or middle EastThe first being the name that has been used in a traditional way and the second being the most recent terms due to the growth in recent years of the importance of the Arab countries in the area. The flags of the West Asian nations are as follows:

• Saudi Arabia: Green flag in the center of which is an Arabic inscription underlined with a sword.
• Bahrain: Red flag with a white stripe on the left in the shape of a saw.
• Qatar: Purple flag with a white stripe on the left in the shape of a saw.
• Arab Emirates: Green, white and black horizontal lines with a vertical red line.
• Iran: Green, white and red horizontal lines with the emblem of Iran in their center.
• Iraq: Red, white and black horizontal lines with an inscription in their center.
• Israel: A star of David on a white background and with two blue horizontal lines.
• Jordan: Black, white and green horizontal lines with a red triangle on one side.
• Kuwait: Green, white and red horizontal lines and with a black trapezoid on one side.
• Lebanon: Red, white and red horizontal lines with a green tree in its center.
• Oman: White, red and green horizontal lines with a red stripe on the side.
• Syria: Red, white and black horizontal lines with two green stars in their center.
• Yemen: Red, white and black horizontal lines.

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The most populated area in all of Asia is populated by the descendants of the Indo-Aryan peoples, although there are really few similarities between the different countries that inhabit the area due to the evolution of the peoples. The flags of the South Asia area are as follows:

• Afghanistan: Vertical lines in black, red and green with the country's coat of arms in the center.
• Bangladesh: Green flag with a red circle in the center.
• Bhutan: Flag divided in two diagonally with a yellow upper left area and an orange lower right area with a dragon in its center.
• India: Horizontal orange, white and green lines with a blue wheel in the center.
• Maldives: Two rectangles, one red and the other green in the center of which is a white crescent moon.
• Nepal: White flag with two red banners on the left side, in one a crescent with the Sun and in the other a Sun.
• Pakistan: Green flag with a white left side and a crescent and white star.
• Sri Lanka: On the left green and orange stripes, and on the right a golden lion on a red background.

One of the regions with largest number of inhabitants in the world, especially important due to the existence of two great powers such as China and Japan. It is an area with great differences between its countries, being the place where Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian speakers live. The flags of the East Asia area are as follows:

• China: Red flag with five yellow stars.
• North Korea: Two blue stripes and one red, on the left a white circle with a red star.
• South Korea: White flag with the yin-yang symbol in its center and four taeguk symbols in its center.
• Japan: White flag with a red circle in its center.
• Mongolia: Red, blue and red vertical lines, with the gold national emblem on the left.
• Taiwan: Red flag with a blue rectangle in the upper left corner in the center of which we find a white sun.

To conclude this lesson on the flags of Asia we must talk about the symbols of the Southeast Asian nations. This area is the one that includes the Malay Archipelago and Indochina, being a region closely related to Oceania. The flags of Southeast Asia are as follows:

• Brunei: Yellow flag with yellow and black diagonal lines with the city's coat of arms in the center.
• Burma: Yellow, green and red horizontal lines with a white star in their center.
• Cambodia: Two blue horizontal lines, red horizontal line and in its center the entrance to the Cambodia temple.
• Philippines: Blue and red horizontal lines with a white triangle on the left side.
• Indonesia: Red and white horizontal lines.
• Laos: Two red horizontal lines, one blue and a white circle in its center.
• Malaysia: Fourteen red and white horizontal lines with a blue rectangle in the left corner inside which is a moon and a yellow star.
• Singapore: Red and white horizontal lines with a crescent moon and five white stars.
• Thailand: Two red horizontal lines, two white horizontal lines and one blue horizontal line.
• East Timor: Red flag with a black and yellow triangle with a white star in its center.
• Vietnam: Red flag with a yellow star in its center.

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