Singapore Flag

How to identify it

Red over white with a white crescent and five stars arranged in a circle in the upper flagpole corner.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

First raised as the state flag on 3 December 1959 and retained at independence in 1965.

Officially documented meaning

Singapore’s government says red signifies universal brotherhood and equality, white purity and virtue, the crescent a young nation on the rise, and the five stars democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.

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