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Ferryhill Summer Club 2002
"The Year of the Child"

5th-12th August 2002 
9.15-12.15 pm 
in the Church Halls

 The Flag of Afghanistan

Print out a copy of the Afghanistan Flag to colour

Afghanistan's flag was adopted on December 2, 1992, after the Mujahideen (fundamentalist Muslim fighters) won a civil war against the government that formed after the Soviet Union had pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989.

The flag of Afghanistan is composed of three equal horizontal bars of green, white, and black. Green symbolizes Islam. In the centre is the coat of arms of Afghanistan, pictured in yellow. The arms depict two curved swords, a mosque with a minabar (pulpit), a wreath, the date 1371 (A.D. 1992), which is the date of the Mujahideen victory, and an Arabic inscription that reads, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah."

Afghanistan has had lots of different flages.  You can find pictures of some of them here [Flags]