List of flags of Laos
The following is a flag list of Laos.[1][2][3]
National
[edit]Present
[edit]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2 Dec. 1975 to present | State flag and civil ensign | 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. Ratio is 2:3. |
Historical flags
[edit]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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3 Oct. 1893 - 8 Apr. 1945 19 Jul. 1949 - 22 Oct. 1953 |
Protectorate flag of Kingdom of Laos | Ratio is 2:3. Influences:  
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12 Oct. 1945 - 24 Apr. 1946 | 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. Ratio is 2:3. Influences: 
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22 Oct. 1953 - 2 Dec. 1975 | State flag and civil ensign of Kingdom of Laos | Ratio is 2:3. Influences: 
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Royal standards
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1893 - 1949 | Royal standard of Laotian kingdom.[6] | Ratio is 2:3. Influences: 
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1949 - 1975 | Royal standard of Kingdom of Laos. | Ratio is 2:3. Influences: 
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1949 - 1975 | Personal standard of the kings. | Ratio is 1:1. Influences:
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Military flags
[edit]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| 2018 - | Flag of the Lao People's Armed Forces | National flag of Laos defaced with the Emblem of the Lao People's Armed Forces at the centre, "1.20" inscription at the top left corner represents the foundation of the Lao People's Armed Forces on January 20, 1949, and Lao inscription "Lao People's Armed Forces" (ກອງທັບປະຊາຊົນລາວ) at the bottom stripe. Influences: 
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| 2018 - | Flag of the Lao People's Navy | White and dark blue flag defaced with the Emblem of the Lao People's Armed Forces at the centre, "1.20" inscription at the top left corner and Lao inscription "Lao People's Navy" at the bottom stripe. Influences: 
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| 2018 - | Flag of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force | Light blue and dark blue flag defaced with the Emblem of the Lao People's Armed Forces at the centre, "1.20" inscription at the top left corner and Lao inscription "Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force" (ອຸບັດເຫດຍົນກອງທັບອາກາດຕົກ) at the bottom stripe. Influences: 
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Subjects
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Viangchan (1707–1828) -
Champasak (1713–1947) -
Luang Phrabang (1707–1893) -
Luang Phrabang (1893–1945, 1946–1949) -
Luang Phrabang (1945–1946)
Organizations
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Lao Front for National Construction (1945 - now) -
Lao Women's Union (1991 - now) -
Lao Buddhist Association (1920s - now) -
Pathet Lao Armes Forces (1950 - 1975)
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Lao People's Revolutionary Party (22 Mar. 1955 - now) -
Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union (14 Apr. 1955 - now)
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Forces Armées Neutralistes (1960 - 1975) -
Laotian Royalist Movement (1975 - now)
Under foreign domination
[edit]- Khmer Empire
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Laotian countries under the Khmer empire (802 - 1431)
- Burmese Empire
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Lan Xang under the 2nd Burmese Empire (1583 - 1591) -
Kingdom of Vientiane under the 3rd Burmese Empire (1765 - 1779)
- Chinese (2 AD - 1885)
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Han dynasty 2 - 220 -
Han dynasty (2 - 220) -
Tang dynasty (669 - 907) -
Tang dynasty (669 - 907) -
Tang dynasty (669 - 907) -
Tang dynasty (669 - 907) -
Tang dynasty (669 - 907) -
Yuan dynasty (1294 - 1368) -
Yuan dynasty (1294 - 1368) -
Yuan dynasty (1294 - 1368) -
Yuan dynasty (1294 - 1368) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
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Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
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Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Qing dynasty (1659 - 1862) -
Qing dynasty (1862 - 1885)
- Siamese (1707 - 1893)
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1707 - 1782 -
1782 - 1817 -
1817 - 1843 -
1843 - 1893
- Vietnamese (334 BC - 1848)
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1802 - 1848 -
1802 - 1848 -
1802 - 1848
- Indochinese (1893 - 1953)
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Laotian countries under the Indochinese union (3 Oct. 1893 - 8 Apr. 1945, 24 Apr. 1946 - 22 Oct. 1953) -
Laotian countries under the Indochinese union (Vichy France) (1940 - 1941) -
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North Vietnam during the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos (1958 - 1959)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxôn Lao
- ^ Drapeau du Laos
- ^ Flag of Laos
- ^ Murashima, Eiji (December 2015). "Thailand and Indochina, 1945-1950" (PDF). Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (Waseda University). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
- ^ Evans, Grant (1998). The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 0-8248-2054-1.
- ^ Unknown author(s) (1941). Hymnes et pavillons d'Indochine (in French). Retrieved 9 March 2021.
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