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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 ...
horizontally striped red-blue-red national flag with a central white disk. The width-to-length ratio of the flag is 2 to 3. In 1353 King Fa Ngum proclaimed the “Kingdom of the Million Elephants and White Parasol,” basing the name on those traditional symbols of the Lao people.
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. In the middle is a white disc, the diameter of the disc is 4⁄5 the height of the blue stripe.
20 gru 2012 · The Flag of the Former Royal Kingdom of Lan Xang This flag was used during the monarchial times in Laos (pre-1975). The image was that of the three headed elephant on top of a stand with an umbrella (or parasol) on top.
Adopted in 1945 as the national flag of Laos and re-used on 2 nd December 1975 when the King was toppled and the government was taken over by the communist Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the current Laos national flag is one of the few communist-style flags not featuring a star.
When the communist Laos People’s Democratic Republic overthrew the King and assumed power on December 2, 1975, the present national flag of Laos was put into use. The flag features three horizontal stripes: two red stripes at the top and bottom, and a blue stripe in the middle with a white circle in the center that is twice as tall as the red ...
Lan Xang kingdom. Recorded Laotian history begins with Fa Ngum, the ruler who founded the first Laotian state, Lan Xang (“Kingdom of the Million Elephants”), with the help of the Khmer sovereign at Angkor.
