Talk:Flag of Uzbekistan

Then what's the blue stripe for? Thanx 68.39.174.150 23:31, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Difference of interpretation
According to http://www.fotw.net/flags/uz.html#des the colors and symbols of the flag represent completely different things. Anyone know which is actually the case? I'd change teh page to the FotW explanation as the current setup doesn't have any sources. Thanx 68.39.174.150 04:46, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Anyone care to explain...
...why the stars are in the arraignment of 1, 2, 3, 3, 3? 68.39.174.238 20:33, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Not a war flag
The flag show at the page as the War Flag is not - it is the flag of armed forces, or what in English would be called the "Colo(u)rs". A war flag in vexillology is a specific version of a national flag used by armed forces on land _instead_ of the "usual" national flag, which is, I guess, not the case in Uzbekistan - the usual national flag is used in the military as well, and the inscribed flag is a military colour of the forces as a military unit. There are rare examples of militaries around the world using a specific different flag as a war flag instead of the national flag (more often there is a specific war ensign for use on ships). Most of the reports of a specific war flag indeed turned out to be misreporting of military colours instead. A rule of thumb: that flag which is hoisted every morning in the military barracks is the ware flag - and as a rule it is most often the same as the usual national (or governmental) flag. The flag used on staffs in the barracks and in parades, if different from the national flag design - is a military colour and not the war flag! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.138.60.1 (talk) 19:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Text on war flag
I can't read Cyrillic; what dos the text on the war flag say? – Illegitimate Barrister, 07:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Transliterated it's "Uzbekiston respublikasi kurolli kuchlari", which apparently means "Republic of Uzbekistan Armed Forces". SiBr4 (talk ) 13:25, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 06:14, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Naval ensign
What is Uzbekistan's naval ensign? – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 06:14, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Stars form Allah in Arabic script
There is simply no evidence that this is an intentional part of the flag's design and there is no reason for this page to make reference to it. The only source that is cited that makes that claim is "https://www.worldatlas.com/flags/uzbekistan" which doesn't cite any sources of its own and thus should also be deleted from the page. The source that comes from the Uzbek government at "https://web.archive.org/web/20211115232130/https://parliament.gov.uz/uz/flag/" makes no mention of the stars forming Allah in the Arabic script. Additionally, the current flag law of Uzbekistan which can be found at "https://www.lex.uz/docs/57181" in article 4 actually states that the stars form 3 rows as opposed to 5 columns (needless to say it also makes no mention of the Allah). For these reasons I am going to delete the sections that make the claim that the stars form the word Allah. Oscopo (talk) 05:50, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Reference to the crescent being a symbol of Islam
While it is generally true that the crescent moon is a symbol of Islam, that is not the case on the flag of Uzbekistan. The only source that claims that the crescent moon is an Islamic symbol comes from the dubious source "https://www.worldatlas.com/flags/uzbekistan". The government of Uzbekistan which is cited in the article at "https://web.archive.org/web/20211115232130/https://parliament.gov.uz/uz/flag/" but can now be found at "https://oldparliament.gov.uz/uz/flag/" does not tie the crescent moon with Islam in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Parliament states "The image of the crescent moon is connected with our historical traditions. At the moment, it is also a symbol of our independence"; while historical traditions could reference Islam it could also reference forms of Turkic moon deification. There is no mention of Islam and it would be speculative to include it in the article. For that reason I am removing the reference to Islam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscopo (talk • contribs) 06:40, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Official RGB
Is there an official source for an officially recommended RGB for the various colours? JDAWiseman (talk) 23:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The Uzbek flag law does have a section that refers to color vaguely as "rich blue, white, and rich green". But, the flag law also has a color image of the flag attached to it which look almost (but not exactly) the same as the ones on this Wiki page.
 * Flag law can be found here: [Https://lex.uz/en/docs/57181# https://lex.uz/en/docs/57181#]
 * Interestingly, it seems as though the Uzbek government themselves don't strictly adhere to the colors on this flag.
 * A quick google search reveals that the Uzbek government typically goes for what I would interpret as "rich blue...and rich green". Much richer blues and greens than the one provided by the image in the flag law in the constitution.
 * Some examples:
 * [Https://eurasianet.org/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/DQRZCs3W4AAwkbJ.jpg?itok=YFJQbUI- https://eurasianet.org/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/DQRZCs3W4AAwkbJ.jpg?itok=YFJQbUI-]
 * [Https://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/styles/n&#x5f;670&#x5f;395/public/2023/02/24/3695101-1967388517.jpeg?itok=G9LIvsFZ https://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/styles/n_670_395/public/2023/02/24/3695101-1967388517.jpeg?itok=G9LIvsFZ]
 * [Https://astanatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/first-ph.jpg https://astanatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/first-ph.jpg]
 * Not sure what has caused this discrepancy.
 * Oscopo (talk) 20:06, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the answer, which I think means “No, there is not an official RGB”. JDAWiseman (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1. Are you willing to write a description, in English, of best authorities on official colours? If yes, please do.
 * 2. AstanaTimes link doesn’t work — must link to article, not image.
 * JDAWiseman (talk) 19:33, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I can go ahead and do that. I'm not particularly well versed in the do's, don't's, and faux pas of Wikipedia so maybe you can look over what I've done after I've made the edit.
 * Oscopo (talk) 08:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC) Oscopo (talk) 08:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Colors of the Flag of Uzbekistan
This article uses three different words to describe the color of the top band of the flag of Uzbekistan: azure, turquoise, and blue.

The flag law as it appears in the constitution of Uzbekistan (here: https://lex.uz/en/docs/57181) uses the word "голубой" in the Russian language version and "moviy rang" in the Uzbek language version. Both of these words mean light blue.

So, to keep the article a little more standard, I'm going to change all references to this color to the word "blue". Azure might actually be a more accurate descriptor, but I'll let someone else make that decision. What's clear is that the color isn't called turquoise and the article shouldn't be using multiple words to refer to the same color.

The other colors are consistently called green, white, and red.

The constitution of Uzbekistan does not specify RGB values for its flag. Instead, it has a color version of its flag at the bottom of the flag law. Interestingly, the actual usage of the flag of Uzbekistan by the government of Uzbekistan is inconsistent with the colored flag in the flag law.

Here are a few articles that include pictures of the government of Uzbekistan posing in front of the flag (notably, none of them use the turquoise-y color):

https://asr.gov.uz/en/news/7908

https://www.fao.org/director-general/news/news-article/en/c/1650018/

https://astanatimes.com/2022/12/kazakhstan-uzbekistan-sign-40-agreements-worth-2-5-billion-at-tashkent-business-forum/

For these reasons, I think it's best for the article to read that the government of Uzbekistan simply doesn't have specific color values for its flag.

It would probably be best for this article to use a flag with a lighter blue that aligns with the actual usage of the flag. As it stands, I cannot find any official usage of the flag of Uzbekistan that uses the same color as the one on this article or the one as specified in the constitution of Uzbekistan.

I'm not sure what source would be good enough to instigate that change. Here is an article published by the office of the president of Uzbekistan:

https://president.uz/en/lists/view/3793

The second picture uses the, now expected, light blue.

Oscopo (talk) 09:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)