Flag of Vietnam
Asia
Quick Facts
- Capital
- Hanoi
- Flag adopted
- 1955
- Population
- 101,343,800
- Area
- 331,212 kmยฒ
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Currency
- Vietnamese ฤแปng (โซ) โ VND
- Demonym
- Vietnamese
- Government
- communist party-led state
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Driving side
- Right
- Timezones
- UTC+07:00
- Independence
- 1945
Religions
- None 86.3%
- Roman Catholic 6.1%
- Buddhist 5.8%
- Protestant 1%
- Other 0.8%
About This Flag
The flag of Vietnam features a solid red field with a large golden-yellow five-pointed star at its center. The red represents the blood shed during the country's struggle for independence, particularly against French colonialism and during the wars of the 20th century.
The gold star symbolizes the five classes of Vietnamese society โ intellectuals, farmers, workers, traders, and soldiers โ united in building socialism. The flag was first used by the Viet Minh in 1940 during the resistance against Japanese occupation and French colonial rule, and was formally adopted as the national flag of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) on November 30, 1955.
After reunification in 1976, it became the flag of the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
What the colors & design mean
Red symbolizes the revolution, the blood of patriots, and the struggle for independence. The golden star represents the unity of the five social classes: intellectuals, farmers, workers, business people, and military personnel, all working together under socialism.
Pattern: Solid Field
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Fun Facts
- The flag was designed by Nguyen Huu Tien, a revolutionary who was executed by French colonial authorities in 1941 โ he reportedly designed the flag while in prison.
- South Vietnam used a different flag (a yellow field with three red horizontal stripes) from 1955 to 1975, and this flag remains a symbol of the Vietnamese diaspora community worldwide.
- Vietnam's flag is one of the few national flags to explicitly represent social classes in its design, with the five points of the star each assigned to a specific segment of society.
- Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence on September 2, 1945, reading a declaration that quoted directly from the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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