Flag of Nepal

The national flag of Nepal Nepali: नेपालको झण्डा is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag that acts as both a state flag in addition to civil flag of a sovereign country. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons or pennants, call as a double-pennon. Its crimson red is the symbol of bravery as living as it also represents the color of the rhododendron, Nepal's national flower, while the blue border is the color of peace. Until 1962, the flag's emblems, both the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces, but they were removed to modernize the flag.

The current flag was adopted on 16 December 1962, along with the positioning of a new constitutional government. Shankar Nath Rimal, a civil engineer standardised the flag on the a formal message requesting something that is introduced to an a body or process by which energy or a particular factor enters a system. of King Mahendra. It borrows from the original, traditional design, used throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a combination of the two individual pennons used by rival branches of the ruling dynasty.