Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Abu Zaby

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Zeljko Heimer

• Description
• Civil and Air Ensigns
• Ensign until 1958
• Flag until c.1968
• United Arab Emirates University

See also:

• United Arab Emirates

A red flag with a white canton, a variant of the no. 1 flag described in the General Maritime Treaty 1820

Santiago Dotor, 18 April 2001

Red flag with white canton, width 1/3 of the hoist, length 1/3 of fly. Source: Album des Pavillons 2000. A note explains that this flag is often replaced with the Union flag.

Zeljko Heimer, 31 July 2001

I believe the current emirates have civil ensigns. I have the civil ensign and the air ensign of Abu Dhabi.

Jaume Ollé, 14 June 1999

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by Santiago Dotor

Santiago Dotor asked, "when did Abu Dhabi reduce its hoist stripe to a canton?". In 1958, at first at sea. On land the flag was still plain red. Only later the plain flag was abolished for the canton-flag. But I still do not know when, might be around 1968.

Ralf Stelter, 20 April 2001

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by Santiago Dotor

by Santiago Tazón

In January 2002 I spent a week in the UAE. I saw the flag of the United Arab Emirates University, placed in Al-Ain (Abu Dhabi).

Santiago Tazón, 6 February 2002