Back Vlag van Nepal Afrikaans علم نيبال Arabic علم نيبال ARZ Nepal bayrağı Azerbaijani Kobér Népal BAN Сцяг Непала Byelorussian Национално знаме на Непал Bulgarian नेपाल के झंडा Bihari নেপালের জাতীয় পতাকা Bengali/Bangla নেপালর ফিরালহান BPY

Flag of Nepal

Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Triangle Flag
UseNational flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Reverse side is mirror image of obverse side
Proportionsee below
Adopted16 December 1962 (1962-12-16)
DesignTwo juxtaposed triangular figures creating an irregular pentagon 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 byPrithvi Narayan Shah (original)
Shankar Nath Rimal
(modern)

The national flag of Nepal[a] is the world's only non-rectangular flag which is used as both the state and civil flag of a sovereign country.[2] The flag is a simplified combination of two single 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]

  1. ^ "Part-1(8) National Flag", Constitution of Nepal, Nepal Law Commission, 2015, archived from the original on 4 June 2020, retrieved 22 May 2020
  2. ^ a b "Flag of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal". CRW Flags. Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Flag of Nepal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. ^ रातोपाटी. "यसरी बनेको थियो राष्ट्रिय झण्डाको डिजाइन्, चन्द्र–सूर्य र त्रिकोणको अर्थ के ?". RatoPati (in Nepali). Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  5. ^ Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution of Nepal (2018)


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