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Maldives

by zeljko heimer 27-DEC-1995

by zeljko heimer 22-JUL-1996

The blue-white-green tricolour is the war flag of the Maldives, used on land. Considering how much land there is in the Maldives, it is no wonder the flag is so little known! W. Smith gives the dimensions as approximately 3:5

Suvadiva

by mark sensen 23-JUL-1996

From Barraclough's "Flags of the World":
"Whilst the British were in occupation of Gan the people of Addu and the southern group of islands formed the United Suvadinian Republic with a flag of its own, in opposition to the Maldive government. The flag was horizontally blue, green and red, with a crescent and star over all in the centre and a star in the upper hoist and lower fly, all in white. The breakaway state was suppressed in late 1963."

I don't know if the dimensions are right in this image.
mark sensen 23-JUL-1996

The description I've found almost agrees with yours except that the positions of the stars are lower hoist - center - upper fly (thus forming an ascending line).
harald müeller 27-JUL-1996