Last modified: 2013-02-20 by ian macdonald
Keywords: viet nam | asia | francophonie | star: 5-point | communist party |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
![[Viet Nam]](../images/v/vn.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Proportions: 2:3
Usage Code: ![[FIS Code]](../misc/fissumry.gif){kind=small}
Construction Sheet
![[Viet Nam]](../images/v/vn'.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Local Name: Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa
Việt
ISO Code: VN VNM 704
FIPS 10-4 Code: VM
MARC Code: vm
IOC Code: VIE
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 - 19 September 1997
I did not see any reference to the date on which they turned on the actual
pattern. Well, here it is: the current flag of Viet Nam was officially put
into use by the then North Viet Nam on 30 November 1955.
Pier Paolo Lugli, 10 October 1997
The adoption date given on FOTW is 30 September
1955. On the other hand, Smith [smi82]
gives date of "official hoisting 2 July 1976". This is explained, I
guess so - the 1955 was adoption of the flag by Democratic Republic of Viet
Nam (i.e. North Viet Nam), while in 1976 it was adopted by the united
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
Željko Heimer, 7 September 2003
New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark has just completed a brief state visit to Vietnam, prior to the APEC meeting in Thailand.
News footage here showed a motorcade with cars flying small NZ and
Vietnamese flags. The Vietnamese flag definitely had the gold star displaced
towards the hoist, I'd say about 2/5 of the way from hoist to fly, rather than
centred as in the usual national flag.
James Dignan, 19 October 2003
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags
and Anthems Manual London 2012) provides recommendations for national flag
designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for
their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm
version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the
official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC
believed the flag to be.
For Vietnam: PMS 186 red, 116 yellow. The vertical
flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 11 October 2012
![[Viet Nam Coat of Arms]](../images/v/vn).gif)
image contributed by Esteban Rivera, 15 April 2006
Source: Wikipedia
The legislation of Vietnam is available searchable on line at
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/Pages/search.aspx in Vietnamese, but parts are
also provided in English at
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/pages/vbpq.aspx. Several flag related
decisions and decrees may be found in the English part by searching for the
keyword flag, from which I copy:
Decree 10/2005/ND-CP 31/01/2005
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=7109
Providing for the customs sector's flag, pennant, symbol, emblem, insignia,
badges, uniforms, and identity card
Published Date: 31/01/2005
Validated
Date: 01/03/2005
(the English text provides only a dull summary)
Decision 12/2005/QD-BQP 12/01/2005
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=7160
Prescribing badges of defense army personnel, public employees and workers,
and national flags on commanders' working tables
Published Date: 12/01/2005
Validated Date: 15/02/2005
(the English text provides only a dull summary)
Decree 154/2004/ND-CP 09/08/2004
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=7758
On the State's rituals in organizing meetings and cerebrations; awarding and
receiving the State's honorable titles, orders, medals, the Government's
emulation flags, and the Prime Minister's diplomas of merit
Published Date:
09/08/2004
Validated Date: 06/09/2004
(the English text provides only a
dull summary)
Decree 18/2000/ND-CP 29/05/2000
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=429
Stipulating Vietnam's customs service flag, emblem, insignia, badges,
symbol, pennant and uniform
Published Date: 29/05/2000
Validated Date:
29/05/2000
(the English text provides only a slightly longer summary from
which is: Vietnam's customs traditional banner is used in meetings to mark
anniversaries and traditional days, receptions of the State's and the Party's
noble awards and other important activities of the customs service. The customs'
symbol is used for pinning on pennant, service flag and printed on a number of
papers, forms, working facilities or souvenirs,... of Vietnam Customs. Vietnam's
customs pennant is pinned on patrol and control means of Vietnam Customs. The
customs emblem is pinned on kepi. The customs insignia is pinned on lapel.
Vietnam's customs emblem, rank badges, insignia, pennant and uniform are made
for exclusive use by customs officials and employees on duty according to
regulations.)
Decree 86/1998/ND-CP 24/10/1998
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=1322
Stipulating the People's Police service flag, emblem, rank badges, insignia
and uniform
Published Date: 24/10/1998
Validated Date: 08/11/1998
(the
English text provides only a dull summary)
Decree 78/CP 18/06/1997
http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=2435
DETERMINING THE MILITARY SIGNALS, INSIGNIAS, FULL-DRESS UNIFORM, MILITARY
FLAG, SECURITY CHECK BADGES, DUTY PLATES, PENNANTS AND IDENTITY CARDS OF THE
BORDER GUARDS
Published Date: 18/06/1997
Validated Date: 01/07/1997
(the English text provides a full translation including:
"Article 3.- The
military flag of the Border Guards is the military flag of the Vietnam People's
Army. The military flag of each rank of the Border Guards shall be determined by
the Minister of Defense." ... and then in the Art. 4 under section 3: "3.
Pennants shall include the patrol pennant and urgency pennant. a/ The border
patrol pennant is green, in right- angled triangle shape with the symbol of the
military signal inside and the inscription below the signal: "TUAN TRA BIEN
PHONG" (Border Patrol), mounted on front of the vehicle being on duty. b/ The
urgency pennant is green, in isosceles triangle shape with yellow fringes at the
two sides, the symbol of the military signal and the yellow arrow in the middle,
mounted on front of the vehicle being on urgent duty."
Željko Heimer,
18 February 2012
![[Viet Nam vertical flag]](../images/v/vn_vert09.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 May 2010
The ratio is approx 2:1, the star’s centre is more or less at the bottom of
the first quarter from above. Source: based upon a photo, shot by Christian Timm
in Long Hai on 31 January 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 May 2010
![[Viet Nam (1945)]](../images/v/vn-1945.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Construction Sheet
![[Viet Nam (1945 Construction Sheet)]](../images/v/vn'1945.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
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.
image by Jaume Ollé, 16 September 2009
A Soviet style flag
Nozomi Kariyasu, 16 September 2009
