Flag of Morocco - wikipedia Flag of Morocco Morocco Use National flag and state ensign Proportion 2 : 3 Adopted 17 November 1915 Design A red field with the green pentagram, a five - pointed linear star. Designed by Mulay Yusef Variant flag of Morocco Use Civil ensign Proportion 2 : 3 Design With a yellow one - starred crown in the canton. Variant flag of Morocco Use Naval ensign Proportion 2 : 3 Design With a yellow one - starred crown in each corner. The flag of Morocco ( Arabic : علم المغرب ‎ ; Berber : Acenyal n Umerruk ) is made of a red field with a black - bordered green pentagram. Red has considerable historic significance in Morocco, proclaiming the descent from royal Alaouite dynasty. This ruling house was associated with the Islamic prophet Muhammad via Fatimah, the wife of Ali, the fourth Muslim Caliph. Red is also the color that was used by the sharifs of Mecca and the imams of Yemen. From the 17th century on, when Morocco was ruled by the Alaouite dynasty, the flags of the country were plain red. In 1915, during the reign of Mulay Yusef, the green interlaced pentangle was added to the national flag. While Morocco was under French and Spanish control, the red flag with the seal in the center remained in use, but only inland. Its use at sea was prohibited. When independence was restored in 1955, it once again became the national flag. The red background on the Moroccan flag represents hardiness, bravery, strength and valour, while the green represents love, joy, wisdom, peace and hope, it also represents the color of Islam and the pentagram the 5 pillars of Islam. Contents 1 History 1.1 Historical national flags 1.2 Other historical flags 2 Other national flags 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History To be known from this book, may God uphold its value and to be around the centre of grace and joy its orbit, that due to the promotion of our Cherifian kingdom affairs, the spread of its glory and its pride, the need to assign a flag that distinct it from the rest of the kingdoms as that our sacred ancestors flag use to be very similar to some other flags especially the ones used in the marine signs, our noble vision decided to distinct our joyful flag by making the five pointed seal of Solomon in the middle in green, asking the almighty god to keep it waving with the winds of fortune and ambition for this time and the becoming, Amen and peace. -- Yusef of Morocco, ( 1 ), 17 November 1915. In accordance with the seventh article of the constitution, the emblem of the Kingdom shall be a red flag with a five - pointed green star in the center. The flag shall be made with fabric of canna red, opaque and rectangular in shape. The star shall be open, green like the leaf of palm trees, made of five continuous branches and woven in the same fabric where it must be visible on both sides of the flag. One of its points must point upwards. The hoist of the flag equals two thirds ( ​ ⁄ ) of its fly. The star is inscribed in an invisible circle whose radius equals one sixth ( ​ ⁄ ) of the fly 's length and whose centre is the intersection point of the invisible diagonal lines of the flag 's rectangular. The width of each one of the branches of the star shall be ​ ⁄ of its length. -- Mohammed VI of Morocco, About the characteristics of the Kingdom 's emblem and national anthem ( BO - 5378 - ar page 5 ) - bo - 5378 - fr page 6, 23 November 2005. Wide and vertical presentations On May 8, 2010, a Moroccan flag with a size of 60,409.78 square metres ( 650,245.5 sq ft ), weighing 20 tonnes ( 22 short tons ), was set in Dakhla, a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest flag ever draped. Historical national flags Flag of Morocco ( Idrisid dynasty ), 780 -- 974 Flag of Morocco ( Almoravid dynasty ), 1070 -- 1147 Flag of Morocco ( Almohad dynasty ), 1147 -- 1248 Flag of Morocco, used along with a white banner ( Marinid, Wattasid and Saadi dynasties ), 1248 -- 1659 Flag of Morocco ( Alaouite dynasty ), 1666 -- 1915 Flag of Morocco, 1915 -- present Other historical flags Flag used in the 19th century Flag of Republic of the Rif ( 1921 -- 1926 ) Flag of the Tangier International Zone ( 1923 -- 1956 ) 1795 - 1915 Merchant flag of French protectorate in Morocco ( 1912 - 1955 ) Merchant flag of Spanish protectorate in Morocco ( 1912 - 1956 ) Other national flags Civil Ensign Naval Ensign Naval Jack Royal Standard Royal Flag See also Coat of arms of Morocco List of Moroccan flags References Jump up ^ `` Flag of Morocco ''. Famouswonders.com. 1915 - 11 - 17. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Moroccan Flag ''. M.vexillologymatters.org. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 03. 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Retrieved July 24, 2010. http://www.moroccotomorrow.org/the-moroccan-flag-moorish-americans-an-historical-perspective-frost/ External links Morocco at Flags of the World Morocco Historical Flags, FOTW Flags of the Arab League States Algeria Bahrain Chad Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman State of Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somalia Somaliland Sudan Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen partially unrecognized Suspended from Arab League since 2012 Flags of Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde ( Cabo Verde ) Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea - Bissau Ivory Coast ( Côte d'Ivoire ) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / ( see also plazas de soberanía ) ( Spain ) Madeira ( Portugal ) Mayotte / Réunion ( France ) Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ( United Kingdom ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_Morocco&oldid=817152676 '' Categories : Flags of Africa National symbols of Morocco Flags of Morocco National flags Hidden categories : All articles with failed verification Articles with failed verification from December 2012 Articles containing Arabic - language text Articles containing Berber - language text Pages incorrectly using the quote template Talk Contents About Wikipedia Afrikaans አማርኛ Asturianu Azərbaycanca Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Български Bosanski Català Čeština Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego ગુજરાતી 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית ქართული Kiswahili Lietuvių Magyar Македонски Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Română Русский Scots Slovenčina Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt Walon Yorùbá 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 26 December 2017, at 14 : 28. 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Question: what does the star on the moroccan flag mean
Answer: the 5 pillars of Islam