Flag of Nepal
| Use | National flag |
|---|---|
| Proportion | see below |
| Adopted | 16 December 1962 |
| Design | Two juxtaposed triangular figures creating an irregular pentagon consists of a red field surrounded by a blue border, there being a white emblem of the crescent moon with eight rays visible out of sixteen in the upper part and a white emblem of a twelve rayed sun in the lower part |
| Designed by | Prithvi Narayan Shah (original) Shankar Nath Rimal (modern) |
The flag of Nepal is a concave pentagonal flag of red, white, and blue colour. It is used as both the state and civil flag of Nepal. It is the only non-rectangular national flag in the world. The flag's unique shape is a combination of two single pennants, and is known as a double-pennon. The red colour of the field represents bravery and Nepal's national flower, the rhododendron, while the blue colour of the border represents peace.
The current flag was adopted on 16 December 1962, along with the formation of a new constitutional government. Shankar Nath Rimal, a civil engineer, standardised the flag on the request 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. Until 1962, the flag's emblems, both the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces, but they were removed to modernise the flag.