<span lang="Myanmar " dir="ltr">The</span> State Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a horizontal rectangular tricolor flag of saffron, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center. The current flag was adopted on 21 October 2010. described in the 2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar was adopted by enacting the 2010 Union Flag Law and the abolishment of the 1974 State Flag Law on 21 October 2010. It was hoisted for the first time at 3:00 p.m. local time on 21 October 2010. Orders were also handed out to ensure all old national flags were burned.
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File:Flag of Myanmar.svg|State Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, in use since 21 October 2010.
File:Flag of Myanmar (construction sheet).svg|Detailed construction sheet.
File:Flag of Myanmar specifications.jpg|Specifications of the flag.
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! Scheme !! style="background-color:#FECB00"|Saffron !! style="background-color:#34B233"|<span style="color:white;">Green</span> !! style="background-color:#EA2839"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
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| Pantone || 116 || 361 || 1788 || Safe
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| RGB || 254-203-0 || 52-178-51 || 234-40-57 || 255-255-255
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| Hexadecimal || #FECB00 || #34B233 || #EA2839 || #FFFFFF
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| CMYK || 0, 20, 100, 0 || 76, 0, 100, 0 || 0, 98, 82, 0 || 0, 0, 0, 0
|}
Historical flags (1948–2010)
The two flags used by the country immediately before the 2010 flag both originated in the Burmese Resistance, which adopted a red flag with a white star when fighting the occupying Japanese forces during World War II.
1948 flag
thumb|National Flag of the [[Post-independence Burma, 1948–62|Union of Burma <br>(4 January 1948 – 3 January 1974).<br />Proportion 5:9; civil and state flag. ]]
The National Flag of the Union of Burma was designed by Maung Win and adopted by the Constituent Assembly of the Union of Burma in August 1947. On 3 January 1974, it was replaced by the State Flag of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma.
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! Colours scheme !! style="background-color:#2042A1"|<span style="color:white;">Blue</span> !! style="background-color:#DA2D1C"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
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| RGB || 32-66-161 || 218-45-28 || 255-255-255
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| Hexadecimal || #2042A1 || #DA2D1C || #FFFFFF
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| CMYK || 80, 59, 0, 37 || 0, 79, 87, 15 || 0, 0, 0, 0
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1974 flag
thumb|State Flag of the [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (3 January 1974 – 18 September 1988) and the Union of Myanmar (18 September 1988 – 21 October 2010).<br />
Proportion 5:9; civil and state flag and state ensign. ]]
The State Flag designed by Mya Thaung and adopted on 3 January 1974
After the 1988 coup, the new juntas, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and its successor the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), continued to use this flag as the State Flag of the Union of Myanmar. But they removed the reference to socialism by replacing "the socialist system" with "the State" in the school lesson about the State Flag; peasants and workers became the fundamental social classes of building the State.
The 14-star flag was hung upside down during the 8888 Uprising of 1988 by demonstrators as a sign of protest against the military government. Despite its association with the periods of military rule, the 1974 flag is used by demonstrators in the 2021 Myanmar protests, alongside the 1948 flag.
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! Colours scheme !! style="background-color:#2042A1"|<span style="color:white;">Blue</span> !! style="background-color:#DA2D1C"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
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| RGB || 32-66-161 || 218-45-28 || 255-255-255
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| Hexadecimal || #2042A1 || #DA2D1C || #FFFFFF
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| CMYK || 80, 59, 0, 37 || 0, 79, 87, 15 || 0, 0, 0, 0
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Vertical style
Current flag
When hanging or depicting vertically, the yellow must be on left and the star must point to left. <br>125px|centre
Obsolete flags
1948 flag
When hanging or depicting vertically, the blue canton must be in the upper hoist, and the stars in the canton must point to the left.
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In 1935, a peacock was added in the centre of the tricolour. In 1938, the leftists from Dobama Asiayone replaced the peacock with a hammer and sickle. Both of the tricolours were widely used by anti-colonialists during British rule. The peacock flag was also used by the Burma Independence Army and the State of Burma adopted it as the national flag from 1943 to 1945. In 1943, a stylized version of the peacock was introduced. This version was used by the Burma Defense Army (with the peacock in red) and as a variant of the national flag by the State of Burma (with the peacock in gold). There are two songs with the same name, "" (meaning: "Tricolour Song"), composed by two different composers about the meaning behind the Tricolour symbolism and the hope of Burmese people. The resistance flag is alluded to and honoured by the 1948–1974 flag, There was a dispute at the committee's meeting in August 1947 whether or not the peacock should be added further to the proposed State flag; but after long discussions, the committee decided that the peacock should be rejected.
In September 2007, another new design was proposed with a larger white star in the middle and with the stripes in a different order, namely: yellow, green, and red.
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Flag of Myanmar (2006 proposal).svg|2006 proposal
Flag of Myanmar.svg|2007 proposal
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Former 2019 proposals
Two years before the 2021 coup, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) proposed a series of constitutional amendments in July 2019, including one to change the national flag. Four political parties, the NLD, Shan Nationalities League for Democracy(SNLD), Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) and National United Democratic Party (NUDP) proposed four new designs for the flag. The NLD proposed changing the national flag as they do not believe that the flag adopted in 2010 has the full support of the people of Myanmar. Their proposed flag was based on the flag adopted by the country at independence and consisted of a red field with a blue canton in the upper hoist. Within the blue canton is a large white star representing the union which is surrounded by 14 smaller white stars representing the states and regions of the country.
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Flag of Myanmar (2019 proposal).svg|The NLD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD)'s proposal 2019.svg|The SNLD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD)'s proposal 2019.svg|The ZCD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - The National United Democratic Party (NUDP)'s proposal 2019.svg|The NUDP's proposal
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Historical flags before 1948
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File:Golden Hintar flag of Burma.svg|Flag used in the Hanthawaddy kingdom (–1552)
File:Flag of Konbaung Dynasty (Nonrectangular).svg|Flag used as national flag of Burma under Konbaung Dynasty (–1885)
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|Flag of the United Kingdom used as the colonial flag of British Burma (1886 – 1942 ; 1945 – 4 January 1948)
File:British Burma 1937 flag.svg|Colonial flag of British Burma (6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941; 1945 – 3 January 1948)
File:Flag of Burma (1941–1942).svg|Provisional colonial flag of British Burma (30 March 1941 – 1942)