File:Flag of Iraq.svg

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Description

العربية: علم العراق

کوردی: ئاڵای عێراق

Kurdî: Alaya Iraq

ܐܪܡܝܐ : ܐܬܐ ܕܥܝܪܐܩ

Türkmençe: Yrak baýdagy

Čeština: Irácká vlajka

Deutsch: Flagge des Irak

Zazaki: Desmale Iraq

English: Flag of Iraq

Esperanto: Flago de Irako

Español: Bandera de Iraq

فارسی: پرچم عراق

Suomi: Irakin lippu

Français : Drapeau de l'Irak

Italiano: Bandiera dell'Iraq

日本語: イラクの国旗

한국어: 이라크의 국기

Nederlands: Vlag van Irak

Polski: Flaga Iraku

Русский: Флаг Ирака

Slovenščina: Zastava Iraka

Soomaaliga: Calanka Ciraaq

Türkçe: Irak bayrağı

Українська: Прапор Іраку

Date 22 January 2008 (current version); 31 July 1963 (original version).

Source

Own work. This vector image and its matching construction sheet are based on the Government flag image shown at protocol-pmo.gov.iq. Several very small adjustments have been applied to improve symmetry, character alignment, and character spacing. Note that the flag image shown on the government web page (and referenced above) is very likely derived from a previous version of this Wikimedia file.

See also Flags of the World - Iraq.
Also in use as current Air Force roundel seen here

Author See File history below for details.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work was first published in Iraq and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright, amended 2004 by Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication or it was published prior to 1 May 2004
It is a work where the copyright holder is a legal entity or a work of applied art and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is a photographic or cinematic work that is not compositive (artistic in nature) first published before 1 May 1999
It is work published in Iraq before 1 May 1954, and the author died before 1 May 1979
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "collections of official documents, such as texts of international laws, regulations and agreements, judicial judgements and various official documents."
It is the work of a body corporate, public or private, published by January 1st, 1980 (Article 20, 1971 law).

العربية | English | 日本語 | 中文 | Español | +/−

Per U.S. Circ. 38a, the following countries are not participants in the Berne Convention or Universal Copyright Convention and there is no presidential proclamation restoring U.S. copyright protection to works of these countries on the basis of reciprocal treatment of the works of U.S. nationals or domiciliaries:

Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Marshall Islands, Palau, Somalia, Somaliland, and South Sudan.

As such, works published by citizens of these countries in these countries are usually not subject to copyright protection outside of these countries. Hence, such works may be in the public domain in most other countries worldwide.

However:

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Unpublished works from these countries may be fully copyrighted.
A work from one of these countries may become copyrighted in the United States under the URAA if the work's home country enters a copyright treaty or agreement with the United States and the work is still under copyright in its home country.

Iraq has enacted Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 21 January 1971. Iraq has enacted Regulation No. 10 of 1985 on the National Committee for the Protection of Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 2 September 1985. Iraq has enacted Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (Arabic) (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 1 May 2004.

Note: As per Commons policy, this tag alone is not sufficient. You also need to supply a tag that describes why the work is public domain in its country of origin.

This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

Other versions

Current flags and coats of arms
State flag (2008-present)
Coat of arms (2008–present)

Historical flags
(1921–1959)
Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan (1958)
(1959–1963)
(1963–1991)
(1991–2004)
(2004–2008)

Interpretation of the colors

Scheme	Textile colour
Red	The Hashemite dynasty, bloody struggle for freedom.
White	The Umayyad dynasty, bright and peaceful future.
Green	The Islam, the takbīr (the phrase Allahu akbar, meaning "God is great" in Arabic)
Black	The Abbasid dynasty,

Colours scheme: valid for iraqi flags 1963-present [1] archive copy at the Wayback Machine

	Red	White	Green	Black
RGB	`205/17/37`	`255/255/255`	`1/123/61`	`0/0/0`
Hexadecimal	`#cd1125`	`#ffffff`	`#017b3d`	`#000000ff`
CMYK	`0/92/82/20`	`0/0/0/0`	`99/0/50/52`	`0/0/0/100`

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:17, 31 March 2026	900 × 600 (1 KB)	ErrrrrWhat	BAD vandalism by blocked user, now reverted
	16:30, 31 March 2026	1,134 × 756 (8 KB)	Westlinda06	Reverted to version as of 16:21, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
	16:25, 31 March 2026	900 × 600 (1 KB)	BestiDeOro	Reverted to version as of 14:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
	16:21, 31 March 2026	1,134 × 756 (8 KB)	Westlinda06	Reverted to version as of 23:08, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
	14:31, 31 March 2026	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Enterprise599	Reverted to version as of 13:47, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Erroneous revert with no explanation
	13:57, 31 March 2026	1,134 × 756 (8 KB)	Westlinda06	Reverted to version as of 23:08, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
	13:47, 30 November 2022	900 × 600 (1 KB)	MapGrid	Reverted. There is a lot of value in having code that is readable to humans. Please do not remove title tags, tabs, and line feed characters just for the sake of saving a few bytes.
	13:29, 30 November 2022	900 × 600 (1 KB)	VexilAlpaca	Slight code reduction using SVGOMG
	03:41, 13 February 2022	900 × 600 (1 KB)	MapGrid	Synced with File:Flag of Iraq (construction sheet).svg. Removed unnecessary matrices. Minor improvements to symmetry, character alignment, and characters spacing. Colours changed to match RGB values shown on government website.
	17:24, 4 September 2020	900 × 600 (3 KB)	FDRMRZUSA	Fixed small imperfections. Re-optimized svg code before upload. No other changes.