Flag of Crimea

Crimea

Proportion	1:2
Adopted	24 September 1992 (Original) 4 June 2014 (New Colours)
Design	A horizontal tricolor of a thin blue stripe, a large white stripe, and thin red stripe.
Designed by	A. Malgin and V. Trusov
Flag with pre-2014 colours

The flag of Crimea (Russian: Флаг Крыма, romanized: Flag Kryma; Ukrainian: Прапор Криму, romanized: Prapor Krymu; Crimean Tatar: Къырым байрагъы, romanized: Qırım bayrağı) is the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine and the Republic of Crimea controlled by Russia.^{[nb 1]} The flag was officially adopted on 24 September 1992^[1] as the flag of the Republic of Crimea, readopted on 21 April 1999,^[2] then readopted on 4 June 2014 as the flag of the Republic of Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation.

The flag is a triband, striped horizontally in blue–white–red. The blue stripe is located at the top edge and is 1/6 of the flag's width. The white stripe is the largest of the three and is 2/3 of the flag's width, and the red stripe is located at the bottom edge and is 1/6 of the flag's width.

When flown vertically, the flag's blue stripe should be at the left, the white field in the centre, and the red stripe on the right. The flag's length is twice its width.

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