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Image of the French protectorate flag of Laos (Kingdom of Luang Prabang) An original 1960s Kingdom of Laos flag with fringe. The current Lao flag was designed in 1945 by Maha Sila Viravong, a famous Lao nationalist, intellectual, and scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture.
The national symbols of Laos are official and unofficial flags, icons or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of Laos and of its culture. Symbol [ edit ]
Flag Date Use Description 3 Oct. 1893 - 8 Apr. 1945 24 Apr. 1946 - 22 Oct. 1953: Protectorate flag of Kingdom of Laos: Ratio is 2:3. Influences: 12 Oct. 1945 - 24 Apr. 1946: State flag and civil ensign of Kingdom of Laos [4] [5] Three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top and bottom red stripes.
Timeline of national flags. ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Laos: 1707 1893 1952 1975 Laos: Latvia: 1562 1661 1692
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Pages in category "National symbols of Laos" ... Flag of Laos; List of flags of Laos; H.
The image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon with an American flag is one of the most iconic photos in American history. The U.S. planted the first flag on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Before the establishment of democracy in Nepal – originally in 1990, then again in 2008 – it was forbidden for most regular Nepalis to display flags at their homes. “National flags could ...
Laos traces its history to the kingdom of Lan Xang ('million elephants'), which was founded in the 13th century by a Lao prince, Fa Ngum, [30]: 223 whose father had his family exiled from the Khmer Empire. Fa Ngum, with 10,000 Khmer troops, conquered some Lao principalities in the Mekong river basin, culminating in the capture of Vientiane.