Where are Nepal's flag-construction instructions set out?
Schedule 1 of the Constitution of Nepal gives the geometric instructions for drawing the national flag.
Flag of Nepal
Its colour palette includes red, blue, and white.
Current flag
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Nepal
Flag facts
- Legal basis
- Constitution of Nepal, Article 8 and Schedule 1
Flag design
- Layout
- Complex layout
- Symbols
- Crescent – In the field and Sun – In the field
- Shapes
- Triangle – In the field
- Colours
- Red, blue, and white
Sources
Why Nepal’s national flag is not rectangular
Nepal’s national flag is formed from two crimson pennants joined vertically, each with a dark-blue border. The upper pennant carries a white crescent moon and the lower one a white sun, giving the flag its distinctive double-pennant outline.
Nepal’s Constitution includes a construction schedule that specifies how to draw the flag, including its unusual proportions and symbols. The moon and sun are traditional national emblems; the constitutional schedule defines their shapes rather than assigning each one a separate modern political meaning.
Frequently asked questions
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Nepal
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Kathmandu
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- NP
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- NPL
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 524
- Top-level domain
- .np
- Area
- 140,800 km²
- Population
- 29,618,118 (2025)
- Currency
- NPR
- Calling code
- +977
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Nepal (1768–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
