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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. As a member of the Lao Issara movement, he was tasked with creating a new Lao national flag that was to be distinct from the royalist red flag with the white three-headed ...
Flag Date Use Description 3 Oct. 1893 - 8 Apr. 1945 19 Jul. 1949 - 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.
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 ]
Laos, [d] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), [e] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12] Its capital and largest city is ...
The National Emblem of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is a circle depicting in the bottom part one-half of a cog wheel and red ribbon with inscriptions [of the words] "Lao People's Democratic Republic", and [flanked by] crescent-shaped stalks of fully ripened rice at both sides and red ribbons bearing the inscription "Peace, Independence ...
This article contains a list of flags for which the reverse (back ) is different from the obverse (front ).It includes current as well as historic flags of both nations and national subdivisions such as provinces, states, territories, cities and other administrations (including a few that are not recognized by the United Nations or whose sovereignty is in dispute).
Flag of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (alternate) Flag of Bashkortostan; Flag of the Kingdom of Bau (1867-1869) Flag of Bavaria (lozenge version) Flag of Bavaria (striped version) Air Force Ensign of Belgium; Flag of Belize; Bisexual pride flag; Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Flag of Botswana; Flag of Brazil; Naval Jack of Brazil; Flag of ...
[78] Compare to the flags of Indonesia and Monaco, which have the colours positioned on the opposite side Portugal: 2:3 (1.5) Naval jack: 1:1 [79] Puerto Rico 2:3 (1.5) Compare to the flag of Cuba, where the blue and red colours are swapped Qatar: 11:28 (2.545) [80] Qatar's flag is the only national flag having a width more than twice its height.