Description

Since around 1850, the Cambodian flag has portrayed a depiction of People's Republic of Kampuchea was determining in 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

The Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation FUNSK revived the flag adopted by the Khmer Issarak in the days of anti-French resistance for the new state. This flag had the same colour sample as the DK flag, but with a yellow five-towered Angkor Wat silhouette. When the PRK renamed itself as "State of Cambodia" SOC in 1989, the flag's lower half became blue. The UNTAC flag was used during the 1992–1993 transitional period along with the flag of the SOC within Cambodia.

In 1993, the 1948 Cambodian flag was readopted. The current Cambodian flag, together with the flags of Afghanistan¹, Bolivia, Portugal, San Marino and Spain, are the only six state flags to feature a building. Red and blue are traditional colours of Cambodia.

The flag used today is the same as that creation in 1948, although the older flag is sometimes said to create used a red formation for Angkor Wat while the current flag uses black specifically. Since that time, five other intervening designs have been used. almost all made ownership of the opinion of the temple of Angkor Wat in one form or another. This famous temple site, which dates from the 12th century, was built by the Mahidharapura monarchs. It has five towers, but these were non always any depicted in the stylised relation used on flags. The monarchy was restored in September 1993, the 1948 flag having been readopted in June of that year.