Prescribed sizes of the flag for buildings are 305cm X 183cm, 152cm
X 91cm and 76cm X 46cm and for vehicles are 38cm X 23cm and 25cm
X 15cm. |
Flag adopted 13 January 1972, coat of arms adopted February 1971.
The national flag is bottle green in color and rectangular in size
with the length to width ratio of 10:6 bearing a red circle on the
body of the green. The red circle has a radius of one fifth of the
length of the flag. Its center is placed on the middle of the perpendicular
drawn from the nine twentieth part of the flag. The background color
symbolizes the greenery of Bangladesh with its vitality and youthfulness
while the red disc represents the rising sun and the sacrifice our
people made to obtain our independence. |
This is the first flag of the independence movement.
Initially, the flag had a map of Bangladesh in gold at the center
of the red circle. This was the original design of the flag of Bangladesh
under which the valiant freedom fighters fought during our liberation
war. On the 3rd of March 1971, ASM Abdur Rab, the then Vice
President of Dhaka University Students´ Union, hoisted the flag
for the first time at the historic Dhaka University location known
as bawt-tawla. This flag was also raised at the
then Ramna Racecourse (now a park renamed as Shuhrawardy Uddayan)
when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave his historic speech proclaiming
"this struggle is the struggle for liberation." |
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The approximate colour shades are:
Green: CMYK 100-0-70-40, Pantone 342c
Red: CMYK 0-100-80-5, no Pantone given.
(by Zeljko Heimer, courtesy Flags
of the World  )
Civil Ensign
(by Zeljko Heimer, courtesy Flags of the
World )
The President's Flag
(by Zoltán Horváth, courtesy Flags
of the World )
All following images are by Zeljko Heimer, courtesy Flags
of the World )
Naval Ensign
Chief of Naval Staff Flag
Masthead Pennant
Airforce Flag
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