Nepal Flag

How to identify it

Two stacked pennants form a crimson double triangle with a blue border, carrying a white moon above and a white sun below. Its double-pennant outline distinguishes it immediately from rectangular national flags.

Design and construction

Construction

Schedule 1 of Nepal’s constitution defines the double-pennon outline and both emblems through a geometric construction rather than a simple rectangular ratio.

History of the design

The present construction was standardised in 1962. Earlier versions commonly gave human faces to the moon and sun; the modern design omits them.

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