Posted on September 28, 2019
There was a national flag in Thailand for a long time. Most of them were red, and several of them included a chakra, or a picture of an elephant, or both.
There was this particular flag - the current one - in Thailand for years and years. It was adopted on this date in 1917.
What there hasn't been until recently was a holiday celebrating the flag. In time for the flag's 100th birthday, the holiday began in 2017.
The Thai flag, like so many other flags in the world, has three colors, red, white, and blue. But it isn't considered a tricolor flag by the dictionary definitions I've consulted of the word tricolor, because the latter is always a triband flag, with three parallel stripes (bands) of different colors (either horizontal, like Russia's flag, or vertical, like France's flag).
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| Above, Russia's flag. Below, France's flag. |
Thailand's flag has five stripes; yet, Thais call it Trairanga, which means "Tricolor Flag"!
The colors are supposed to stand for nation-religion-king, with red representing the land and the people, white representing religions (I guess all of them), and blue representing the monarchy.
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| Thais have a long history, rich traditions, and a strong cultural identity. Yet Thailand is a modern nation, and its capital, Bangkok, has lots of skyscrapers. |
Also on this date:
Teachers Day in Taiwan
National Good Neighbor Day
(4th Saturday in September)
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(4th Saturday in September)
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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Flag of Thailand
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