Triangle Flag, Chandra Ra Surya, Jungi Nishan, Pahāḍa
Use
National flag
Proportion
see below
Adopted
16 December 1962; 61 years ago (1962-12-16)
Design
The national flag of Nepal consists of two juxtaposed triangular figures with a red-coloured base and deep blue borders, there being a white emblem of the crescent moon with eight rays visible out of sixteen in the upper part and a white emblem of a twelve rayed sun in the lower part[1]
Designed by
Prithvi Narayan Shah (original) Shankar Nath Rimal (modern)
The national flag of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालको झण्डा) is the world's only non-rectangular flag which is used as both the state flag and civil flag of a sovereign country.[2] The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons (or pennants), known as a double-pennon. Its crimson red is the symbol of bravery and it also represents the color of the rhododendron, Nepal's national flower, while the blue border is the color of peace. Until 1962, the flag's emblems, both the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces, but they were removed to modernize the flag.
The current flag was adopted on 16 December 1962, along with the formation of a new constitutional government.[3] Shankar Nath Rimal, a civil engineer, standardised the flag on the request of King Mahendra.[4] It borrows from the original, traditional design,[5] used throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a combination of the two individual pennons used by rival branches of the ruling dynasty.[2]
^"Part-1(8) National Flag", Constitution of Nepal, Nepal Law Commission, 2015, retrieved 22 May 2020
^ ab"Flag of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal". CRW Flags. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^"Flag of Nepal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
^रातोपाटी. "यसरी बनेको थियो राष्ट्रिय झण्डाको डिजाइन्, चन्द्र–सूर्य र त्रिकोणको अर्थ के ?". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution of Nepal (2018)
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