Yemen vs Syria

Yemen is still a plain red-white-black horizontal tricolor, adopted May 22, 1990, at 2:3. Syria's flag in force is green-white-black with three red stars in the white band, under Article 6 of the March 13, 2025 Constitutional Declaration. The 1980 red-white-black flag with two green stars is retired. Our catalog image may still show that retired flag.

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Yemen

Syria

Top stripe: Red and Green

Proportion: 2:3
Adopted: 1990

Colors

Red #CE1126
White #FFFFFF
Black #000000

Proportion: 2:3
Adopted: 2025

Colors

Green #007A3D
White #FFFFFF
Black #000000
Red #CE1126

Look foron Yemen

Look foron Syria

Red, white, and black, equal bands

Green, white, and black with three red stars
No stars or other charge

Independence flag in Article 6 of the March 13, 2025 Constitutional Declaration
Adopted May 22, 1990, at unification

Raised in practice on December 8, 2024

Which flag is Yemen?

The Two-Star Flag Is Retired

Yemen adopted a plain horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black on May 22, 1990, the day North and South Yemen unified. The catalog construction is three equal bands at 2:3, with no stars. Red, white, and black here follow the Arab Liberation palette.

Syria's catalog entry still describes the March 30, 1980 flag: red, white, and black with two green stars. That design was used from 1980 until December 2024. It is retired. On December 8, 2024, the independence flag was raised in practice: green, white, and black with three red stars in the white band. Article 6 of the Constitutional Declaration of March 13, 2025, sets that flag as the flag of the state. This page uses 2025 for that instrument.

If the flag image on this site still shows two green stars on red-white-black, that art is the retired flag. The flag to learn is green over white over black, with three red stars. Yemen stays the plain red-white-black with no stars.

Telling them apart

Yemen: red top stripe, empty white band.
Syria in force: green top stripe, three red stars on white, black at the bottom.
The 1980 two-green-star flag is not the current Syrian flag. Hex chips are reference values, not a Pantone claim.

Questions

Why might the picture still show two green stars?

The site catalog still stores the 1980 description and may still serve that artwork. The flag in force is the green-white-black independence flag with three red stars.