SRI LANKA    (Democratic Socialist Republic of)    (Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya / Ilangai Jananayaka Socialisa Kudiarasu)    [www.lk]

            slavery unit : rupee        tongues : Cinghaleze + Tamul        21284000 idiot monkeys on 65610 kmē

            puke sects : budist 70%    hindu 15%    X 8%    muslim 7%

          From 1391 the flag of Kingdom of Raigam was red with a golden symbolic animal on it. By 1412 the flag of Kingdom of Kotte was red with a golden symbolic lion holdin a whip in his right hand. In 1469 the flag of Kingdom of Kandy was red with a golden lion holdin a sword in his right hand. In 1521 the flag of Kingdom of Sitawaka had a very similary flag. So it's quite naturaly that the country adopted a red (turned 3 yearz later into crimson/red-brown) flag with a yello lion when Ceylon (the former name of Sri Lanka till 1972) became independent from the UK in 1948. The 4 very weird stufs in the corners are to be 4 yello silhouettes of a budist pagoda named "koth". In 1951 two bands were added to satisfy both fuckin sects of muslims (green) & hindu tamils (orange). When the country was renamed Sri Lanka in 1972 (Sri means "venerable" in Cinghaleze and Sri Lanka might mean "Venerable Lion") four leaves of a pipul tree (a budist symbol) were put in the corners to replace the 4 weird former silhouettes. The present pattern was adopted on 22 MAY 1972.


                                                                                                                                                              capital : COLOMBO



                1972    (ratio 1:2)    FLAG OF CONVENIENCE OF SHIT                    naval ensign
                                                                                                                                                                                     Fuckin colonial tradition : please get rid of it - Pleaze notice SRI LANKA has made some effort by givin up their red ensign !!

                1951    (idiot ratio 5:9 instead of 1:2 !!)

                1948    (independence)    (notice the color is red insted of crimson/red-brown)

                colonial 1875

                colonial 1801

                colonial 1796   (UK)

                colonial 1638   (Nederland)

                colonial 1580

                colonial 1578   (Portugal)

                colonial 1508   (Portugal)

                KINGDOM OF SITAWAKA   (1521-1594)

                KINGDOM OF KANDY   (1469-1815)

                KINGDOM OF KOTTE   (1412-1597)

                KINGDOM OF RAIGAMA   (1391-1412)

                KINGDOM OF JAFFNA   (1215-1624)    (This royal flag was readopted 2005 : www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org)

                or        PANDYA EMPIRE    (600 - 1345)

                CHOLA EMPIRE    (300 BC - 1280)

            

            PANDYA EMPIRE is always dezigned YELLO with 2 VERTICAL YELLO fishes but here can we see another version dezigned GREEN with 2 HORIZONTAL WHITE fishes. Who knows which one shall be the right one ? 2 different eras ??


            AS USUAL WIKIMERDIA IS JUST SHIT :

Indeed :

www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/lk~.html

WikiMERDIA show a "1972" (SIC !!!) undefaced blue ensign.

But this flag has 2 crossed golden ankors since 1978 :

www.rbvex.it/asiapag/srilanka.html

Anyhow.... this 1978 ensign is not uzed any+ !!!!

Theres neither red nor blue ensigns for years : it was confirmed to me by the Sri Lanka embassy in Paris but I cant find that m@il any+. I think I threw it....



+ AN EXHAUSTIN MASTURBATION ABOUT THE 1948 FLAG :

Some people show it ratio 2:3 with a white central fimbriation : www.rbvex.it/asiapag/srilanka.html

THEY ARE WRONG.

Some people show it both CORECT + another one ratio 1:2 with a blak central fimbriation : www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/lk.html

THEY ARE WRONG.

Some people like WIKIMERDIA just copy SHIT FOTW : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_flags

THEY ARE WRONG.

Some people show it ratio 1:2 with a yello central fimbriation : flaglog.com/post/123881715044/ffactory-national-flag-of-ceylon-1948-1951

And thou I must say I realy DO prefer this latter version :

THEY ARE WRONG.

THE CORECT SRI LANKA 1948 SHALL BE 2:3 WITH NO CENTRAL FIMBRIATION :


Stamp dated 1949 showing the 1948 Sri Lankan flag. Scan provided by Ralph KELLY, the BEST vexillolog on Planet Earth.

Look at this video here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UosArxZtK_c

at 5:40 U can C PERFECTLY both the Sri Lankan flag 2:3 aside the British royal standard 1:2. END OF MASTURBATION.



 

                                                                                                                                                                           9 PROVINCES :

                                                                                  
            CENTRAL    (1:2)                                                                                                         EASTERN    (2:3)                                                                               NORTH CENTRAL    (1:2)

                                                                  
            NORTH WESTERN    (1:2)                                                                                          NORTHERN    (idiot ratio 5:9)                                                           SABARAGAMUWA   (2:3)

                                                                                                 
            SOUTHERN    (3:5)                                                                                                     UVA    (2:3)                                                                                         WESTERN    (1:2)

               
            About EASTERN                                                 MARKO's project for EASTERN    (For a by far much better look, dear Sri-Lankans from the Eastern Province, get rid of that unseemly & UGLY triple blue bordure !!!!    -    Stutiyi / ස්තුතියි !!)



                WESTERN    -    The flag is extremely elegant with its triple bordure made of white, green, ornaments but.......... it kills the spirit of wot a flag shall be.

                WESTERN MARKO's project    -    BTW I love the royal cobra with 3 heads !!!

            NOTE : The purpose of a flag is to make a flag, not embroidery, doilies or comics. And, sometimes, the elegance of the whole dezign must be sacrificed for the sake of the "essential core" proper.






         





A beautiful explaining chart for a beautiful flag