Tunisia Flag

How to identify it

A red field with a white disc in the centre containing a red crescent and star. Turkey also has a crescent and star on red, but without the white disc.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

The crescent-and-star design dates from the nineteenth century; a 1999 organic law fixed its current geometry.

History of the design

The law precisely offsets the star within the crescent rather than centring both symbols together in the white disc.

Similar flags

Compare the details that separate these designs.

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  Turkey

  Turkey places its white crescent and star directly on red; Tunisia encloses a red crescent and star inside a white disc.

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