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by Željko Heimer
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I have a specification sheet for the Jordanian flag. It is based on the official specifications and I produced it for the forthcoming visit of King Abdullah to the United Kingdom. The point of the triangle lies at the centre of the flag. The star is quite a lot smaller than is often seen in many actual flags and lies at the intersection of the three lines that bisect the angles of the corners of the triangle. The star lies within a circle whose diameter is 1/7th of the hoist. The constitution of Jordan actually specifies the flag in a detailed manner, and that is where the 1/7th figure comes from.
Graham Bartram, 1 November 2000
Those construction details match completely the dimensions in Flaggenbuch 1939. It appears then that subsequent variations are simply mistakes.
Santiago Dotor, 2 November 2000
From the 1952 Constitution, quoted in the Jordanian Embassy to the U.S. website:
Article 4
The Jordanian flag shall be of the following form and dimensions: "The length of the flag shall be twice its width. It shall be divided horizontally into three parallel and equal stripes, the uppermost of which shall be black, the center, white, and the lowest, green. At the end of the flag-staff the flag shall have a red triangle, the base of which shall be equal to its width. In the triangle there shall be a white seven-pointed star of such a size that it may be one-fourteenth part of its length. The star shall be so placed that its centre shall be at the intersection of the lines bisecting the angles of the triangle, and the axis running through one of its points shall be parallel to the base of the triangle."
Zachary Harden, 24 December 2002
Nobody mentioned this, but I believe one point of the star points upwards. Anyway, there is still one detail missing to make the construction sheet complete, namely the construction of the star. Unless there is something in Flaggenbuch 1939 regarding that, and unless there is also some further detail in Graham Bartram's sources, we are at loss. Looking briefly though my sources, they show quite a range of stars, regarding the size of the inscribed circle. The source I consider most accurate among those I have is the Album des Pavillons 1990. In it the inscribed circle's diameter seems to be something like half that of the outer circle (or similar, it is really hard to tell from such small image). Some other sources show the i