The Secret History Behind Kuwait's Flag
Kuwait's flag colors come from a poem.
A law dated September 7, 1961, a few months after independence, set the design of the flag: three equal horizontal bands of green, white and red, with a black trapezoid at the hoist side. The proportion is 1:2.
The colors are the pan-Arab colors, and they are linked to a verse by the medieval poet Safi al-Din al-Hilli. In the readings given by the government, white stands for deeds, black for battlefields, green for meadows and red for the blood of enemies.
The date printed on every Kuwait design in our catalog, June 19, 1961, is Independence Day.
Four colors taken from a poem.
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