Which country's flag features a white crescent on a green rectangle with a red border? The Maldives. Its national flag places a white crescent on a green rectangle, surrounded by a red field that forms the border.
The flag’s symbolism reflects the country’s history and identity. The red field represents the sacrifices of national heroes, while green symbolizes peace and prosperity. The white crescent represents Islam, the state religion of the Maldives. The crescent’s closed side faces the hoist, or flagpole side.
The modern design emerged from earlier Maldivian flags. A plain red flag was used first, followed later by a black-and-white striped section at the hoist. In the early twentieth century, a crescent was added, and a green rectangle became part of the state-flag design.
When the Maldives became independent from the United Kingdom in 1965, the black-and-white hoist stripe was removed. That change produced the familiar modern flag. Algeria and Pakistan also use green and white Islamic imagery, but neither combines this exact green rectangle, white crescent, and red surround.