Morocco’s current national flag is red with a green five-pointed star at its center. The Constitution calls it the Flag of the Kingdom; Article 4 establishes its identity. [1] Its hoist-to-fly ratio is 2:3. [2]
Specification
Article 1 of Dahir 1-05-99 requires opaque, colorfast, vivid-red rectangular fabric. The palm-green star is open, continuously drawn and woven into the fabric, visible on both faces with one point upward. [2]
These dimensions are prescribed by the same article. [2]
Physical and screen colors
The legal color names are vivid red and palm green; the quoted specification supplies no numeric color coordinates. [2]
#B7312C / RGB 183, 49, 44#006341 / RGB 0, 99, 65These fills are read directly from the selected vector. Other digital specimens use different shades. No official HEX, RGB, Pantone or RAL equivalence is established here; screen colors do not certify fabric. [5]
Construction notes
For fly L, the legal hoist is 2L/3 and the star’s circumscribing circle has radius L/6 at the rectangle’s center. [2] The inspected SVG has viewBox 0 0 9 6, making the target circle center (4.5, 3) and radius 1.5.
The vector draws a continuous, unfilled pentagram with stroke width 0.143. Its upper path vertex is (4.5, 1.73); this is the stroke centerline, not the visible tip. The mitered joins extend the upper tip to approximately y=1.499, giving a visible outer radius approximately 1.501. Measuring only the centerline would incorrectly report a substantially smaller star. The stroke is approximately one-twentieth of the outer tip-to-tip branch length. [5]
Limits of the specimen
Coordinates are rounded to three decimal places or fewer, so the outline is an approximation to a regular pentagram. This rounding is not a legal tolerance. The legal prose does not provide an SVG stroke model, joint construction or numeric production tolerances; the specimen’s treatment of the branch length and visible tips is a display interpretation. Use the legal text and an approved physical pattern for manufacture.
Historical record
The original dahir is dated 17 November 1915. Issued under Sultan Moulay Youssef, it orders a green five-branched Seal of Solomon at the flag’s center, explaining that the existing flag could be confused with other flags, including maritime signals. This is the decree date, rather than a claim about the first public raising. [3]
The later dahir was signed on 23 November 2005; its French official translation appeared in Bulletin officiel 5378 on 15 December 2005, page 834. [2] These are specification and publication dates, not a replacement of the original adoption date.
The Southern African Vexillological Association notes a difference between the 2005 star size and an earlier Album des Pavillons illustration. That earlier drawing is not treated as an interchangeable current construction. [4]
Symbols and attribution
The 1915 instrument names the Seal of Solomon but does not establish a graphic designer or a detailed interpretation of the colors. No designer attribution or additional symbolic meaning is assigned here. [3]
Usage
This record covers the constitutional national flag representing the Kingdom, which the government portal presents among the national emblems. [1] It is not a catalogue of specialized ensigns or personal standards. The physical specification requires the star to be visible on both faces. [2]
Source trail
Reviewed 6 September 2026. The French gazette download timed out; the Arabic PDF’s text extraction was garbled and its screenshot was not available for inspection. The 2005 wording was checked in WIPO’s reproduction of the legal text, and the 1915 decree in the French archival transcription linked below.
- Constitutional Court: Constitution, Article 4 ↗; Government portal: national emblems ↗ — current identity and designation.
- WIPO Lex: legal compilation, footnote 89, printed page 124 ↗ — reproduces Article 1 of Dahir 1-05-99; official French gazette, page 834 ↗; Arabic gazette, PDF page 5 ↗. The dahir’s reference to constitutional Article 7 predates the 2011 Constitution’s Article 4.
- 1915 decree: archival extract and French transcription ↗; originating official gazette, PDF page 6 ↗ — original date, issuer, device and stated purpose.
- Southern African Vexillological Association: specification sheet ↗ — comparison with an earlier drawing. Its Article 4 label differs from the Article 1 identification in the legal compilation; its color recommendations are not used as legal specifications.
- Inspected SVG source ↗; repository provenance and rights statement ↗; Commons authorship and public-domain declaration ↗; local asset record and checksum ↗.
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