Flag of Comoros Magnet

The current flag of the Union of the Comoros (officially French: Union des Comores Arabic: الاتّحاد القمريّ‎, al-Ittiḥādd al-Qamariyy) was designed in 2001 and officially adopted on 7 January 2002. It continues to display the crescent and four stars, which is a motiff that has been in use in slightly various forms since 1975 during the independence movement. In its constitution, the government of the Comoros refers to the insigne as L'emblème nationale, or the "national emblem", though it is understood to actually represent a flag