Today, the flag of Bangladesh flies in celebration of its declaration of Independence from Pakistan on March 26, 1971. The nation’s struggle for independence was completed on what is now celebrated as Victory Day, December 16, 1971,
The Cabinet Division of the President’s Secretariat of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh publishes a Flag Rules document which describes the flag as follows, “The ‘National Flag’ will be in bottle green and rectangular in size in the proportion of length to width 10: 6 bearing a red circle on the body of the green. The red circle will have a radius of one-fifth of the length of the flag. Its center will be placed on the intersecting point of the perpendicular drawn from the nine-twentieth part of the length of the flag and the horizontal line drawn through the middle of its width.”
When the country declared independence from Pakistan, the original flag design superimposed an outline of the nation’s borders on the red circle, but it was removed shortly after independence.
Also flying today, for no particular reason is the flag of Bhutan.
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