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Asia

Mongolia

Ratio: 2:1 Adopted: 1992 Usage: Civil and State

The soyonbo Originally
device the color of
combines a communism,
number of today red
Buddhist represents
emblems progress

Sky blue is the national
color of Mongolia

Asia
2USSIAN &EDERATION Mongolia is a remote state that has been under
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The current national flag replaced days of Genghis Khan. The flag
the Red flag of revolution in 1940. bears a 17th-century Buddhist
The red field is retained at the fly and emblem at hoist called the soyonbo.
hoist, although the color’s original The soyonbo comprises various
socialist connotations have given way ideograms representing different
to more general themes elements from the Buddhist view
of progress and prosperity. The of the world. The communist star
sky-blue panel represents the people which appeared above the soyonbo
of Mongolia and invokes the imperial was removed in 1992.

THE SOYONBO The tongues of the flame stand
for past, present, and future
The sun and moon represent
ancestors of the Moguls

The vertical columns illustrate the
Mongolian proverb “Two friends
Horizontal bars indicate that are stronger than stone”
vigilance is required from the
highest and lowest in society The fish stand for vigilance
because fish never sleep

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