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The five points of the star stand for the farmers, workers, intellectuals,
youth and soldiers. Adopted 1955 (modified from 1945 flag). (Jos Poels,
Prisma vlaggenboek, 1990)
Mark Sensen - 1997-09-17
South Vietnam
The Republic of Vietnam, otherwise known as South Vietnam. Three horizontal
lines form the Chinese ideogram for the word 'south' so this is presumably
a punning reference to the country's name: Vietnam means 'south land'. Come
to think of it, this makes South Vietnam a candidate for our discussion earlier
on tautological names - it means 'South south land'.
Stuart Notholt - 1995-11-29
Vietcong (National Liberation Front)
The NLF of Vietnam (Vietcong) adopted a horizontally red over blue flag with
a yellow star in the centre. This flag was that of the (communist) Republic
of South Vietnam, adopted on 8 June, 1969. It became the only flag of South
Vietnam between April, 30, 1975 (when the anti-communist regime collapsed)
until 2 July 1975 (when North and South Vietnam were united as the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam). Ratio 2.3.
Jaume Ollé - 1996-06; and Mark Sensen - 1997-09-18
1945-1955 flag
The star in the 1945 flag is made in such a way that the inscribed circle (i.e., the one touching the inner angles) is half the diameter of the circumscribed circle (that touches the outer points). Adopted 29 September, 1945.
Annam, French Protectorate
The Empire of Anam was under French protection since 1886. I've seen an old
state flag, that was yellow with two "eastern" (chinese or annamite)
write-characters in black. After 1886 the yellow flag included the french
tricolor in the canton. The national flag was three horizontal strips yellow,
red, and yellow (Proportion 1:2:1).
Jaume Olle - 1997-09-23
For other parts of French Indo-China see :