A military personnel hoists the Nepal national flag during the flag raising ceremony at the Olympic village in London on July 25, 2012, two days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.The national flag of Nepal is the world’s only non-quadrilateral national flag. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons, the vexillological word for a pennant. Its crimson red is the colour of the rhododendron, the country’s national flower. Red is also the sign of victory in war.[citation needed] The blue border is the colour of peace. Until 1962, the flag’s emblems, the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces. They were removed to modernize the flag.The flag was adopted, with the formation of a new constitutional government, on December 16, 1962. The individual pennants had been used for the preceding two centuries and the double pennant since the 19th century. The flag borrows the basic design from the original design, which has been in use for more than 2,000 years. - See more at: http://www.kantipurvdo.com/videos/the-national-flag-of-nepal/#sthash.9EGdb9yx.dpuf
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