Malaysian flag

The national flag of Malaysia was adopted on September 16, 1963.

Design

Its design is very similar to the United States Flag, although it was probably not intended to imitate it but to recall the flag of the British East India Company, which also seems to have inspired the American one. The Malaysian flag features equal-sized horizontal stripes of red and white and a blue quadrant in the canton. The red and white stripes number fourteen and symbolize the thirteen Malay Federated States and the Malay Federation. In the canton there is a decreasing, an Islamic symbol, and a fourteen-pointed star (Venus) that represents, like the stripes, the Malay states and the federation they form. Both the crescent and the star are yellow, a symbol of the Malaysian monarchy and appear at the top of the national coat of arms.

On August 31, 1997, Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammad approved giving the flag a name, Jalur Gemilang, "Glorious Stripes& #3. 4;.

Other flags

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  Flag of the Navy

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  Flag of the Merchant Navy

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  Real standard

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  The first proposed flag

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  The second proposed flag

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  The third proposed flag

Historical flags

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  Flag of Majapahit

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  Flag of the Portuguese Fort of Malacca, a colony of the Portuguese Empire from 1511 to 1641

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  Flag of the Dutch East India Company in the Dutch City and Fort of Malacca from 1641 to 1795

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  Flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Used by British forces during the British occupation intermittent by Napoleonic wars from 1795 to 1801

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  Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1818

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  Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1818 to 1825

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  Flag of the British East India Company from 1826 to 1895

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  Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1870 to 1946

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  Flag of Northern Borneo from 1882 to 1948

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  Flag of the British North Borneo Colony from 1948 to 1963

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  Flag of the British Colony of Sarawak from 1946 to 1963

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  Flag of the British Colony of Labuan from 1912 to 1946

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  Flag of Straits Colonies from 1874 to 1942

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  Flag of Penang from 1946 to 1949

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  Flag of Malacca from 1946 to 1957

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  Flag of the Malay Federated States from 1896 to 1950

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  Flag of the Malay Federation from 1950 to 1963

Similar flags

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  United States flag

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  Flag of Liberia

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  Flag of the Bikini Atoll