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| Name = State Flag of <br>the Republic of the Union of Myanmar <br>{{lang|my|ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် <br>နိုင်ငံတော်အလံ}}
| Image = Flag of Myanmar.svg
| Nickname = {{hlist|The State Flag|{{lang|my|နိုင်ငံတော်အလံ}}}}{{hlist|The Union Flag|{{lang|my|ပြည်ထောင်စုအလံတော်}}}}{{hlist|Yellow Green Red|ဝါစိမ်းနီ}}
| Use = 110110
| Symbol = {{FIAV|110110}} {{FIAV|normal}} {{FIAV|Vertical normal}}
| Proportion = 2:3<ref name="UFL">{{cite act |type=law |index= |date=2010 |article=5(a) |article-type= |legislature=State Peace and Development Council |title=နိုင်ငံတော်အလံဥပဒေ |trans-title=The Union Flag Law |page= |url=https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do;jsessionid=940B4DECB83CA22C4FB3213CCC92AE53?lawordSn=7351 |language=my, en}}</ref>
| Adoption = {{start date and age|2010|10|21|df=yes}}
| Design = A horizontal [[triband (flag)|triband]] of yellow, green and red; charged with one large white [[five-pointed star]] at the centre.
| Designer = [[National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/myanmar-new-flag-ncgub-105690488/1241352.html|title=The new flag of Burma and the flag of the Burmese government-in-exile are the same|publisher=[[Voice of America|VOA Burmese]]|author= Kyaw Aung Lwin|language=Burmese|date= 25 October 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329041241/https://burmese.voanews.com/a/myanmar-new-flag-ncgub-105690488/1241352.html|archive-date=March 29, 2023}}</ref>
}}

<span lang="Myanmar " dir="ltr">The</span> State Flag of the [[Myanmar|Republic of the Union of Myanmar]] is a horizontal rectangular tricolor flag of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center. The current flag was adopted on 21 October 2010.<ref name=gnlm/>

== Current flag since 2010 ==
The State Flag<ref name=C08>Article 437 (a), Chapter {{rn|XIII}}, Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, (2008)</ref> described in the [[Constitution of Myanmar|2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar]] was adopted by enacting the 2010 Union Flag Law and the abolishment of the 1974 State Flag Law on 21 October 2010. It was hoisted for the first time at 3:00&nbsp;p.m. local time on 21 October 2010.<ref name=gnlm>{{cite news |title=Prime Minister attends hoisting of State Flag of Republic of the Union of Myanmar |url=https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs09/NLM2010-10-22.pdf |publisher=News and Periodical Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |newspaper=The Global New Light of Myanmar |date=22 October 2010 |access-date=31 March 2022 |archive-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127003823/https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs09/NLM2010-10-22.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Orders were also handed out to ensure all old national flags were [[flag burning|burned]].<ref name="Robert Birsel" />

Unlike the previous 1974 State Flag Law, the 2010 Union Flag Law includes the definition of the flag. The current flag is a horizontal tricolour flag of yellow, green, and red charged with a [[five-pointed star|five-pointed]] white star in the centre of the field. The background is a yellow, green, and red tricolor, meant to honour the tricolours used during the independence struggle. The yellow represents unity, conformity, wisdom, happiness, and unity of all national races amicably. The green symbolises fertility, conformity, fairness, and being a peaceful, pleasant, and green nation. The red represents bravery and decisiveness. The white star stands for purity, honesty, fullness of compassion, and power.<ref name="UFL"/><ref name="MT11">{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2011 |title=မြန်မာဖတ်စာ ဒုတိယတန်း (Grade-3)|trans-title=Myanmar Textbook for Second Standard (Grade-3) |url= |language=my |location= |publisher=Ministry of Education, Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar |page=1 |isbn=}}</ref>
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File:Flag of Myanmar.svg|State Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, in use since 21 October 2010.
File:Flag of Myanmar (construction sheet).svg|Detailed construction sheet.
File:Flag of Myanmar specifications.jpg|Specifications of the flag.
</gallery>

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! Scheme !! style="background-color:#FECB00"|Yellow !! style="background-color:#34B233"|<span style="color:white;">Green</span> !! style="background-color:#EA2839"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
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| '''[[Pantone]]''' || 116 || 361 || 1788 || Safe
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| '''[[RGB color model|RGB]]''' || 254-203-0 || 52-178-51 || 234-40-57 || 255-255-255
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| '''[[Hexadecimal]]''' || #FECB00 || #34B233 || #EA2839 || #FFFFFF
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| '''[[CMYK color model|CMYK]]''' || 0, 20, 100, 0 || 76, 0, 100, 0 || 0, 98, 82, 0 || 0, 0, 0, 0
|}

== Obsolete flags (1948–2010) ==
The two flags used by the country immediately before the 2010 flag both originated in the Burmese Resistance, which adopted [[#The Resistance Flag|a red flag with a white star]] when fighting the [[Japanese occupation of Burma|occupying Japanese forces]] during [[World War II]].

=== 1948 flag ===
{{See also|#1947 proposals}}
[[File:Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg|thumb|National Flag of the [[Post-independence Burma, 1948–62|Union of Burma]] <br>(4 January 1948 – 3 January 1974).<br />Proportion 5:9; civil and state flag. {{FIAV|110000}}{{FIAV|Historical}}]]

The National Flag of the Union of Burma was designed by Maung Win and adopted by the Constituent Assembly of the Union of Burma in August 1947.<ref name=NNS13/> It was hoisted for the first time at 4:25 AM on 4 January 1948 when [[Union of Burma|Burma]] gained its independence from the [[United Kingdom]]. The flag consisted of a red field defaced with a blue canton. The blue canton was charged with one large white star surrounded by five smaller stars between its rays. The big white star in the canton and the red field honour the [[#The Resistance Flag|Resistance Flag]] and indicate the anti-fascist struggle. The five small white stars between the rays of the big white star symbolize the unity of various ethnicities of the republican union founded as a result of the resistance. The red represents courage, determination and unity. The blue canton means the nature of the sky, having deep meanings, the fresh and clear mind, and the light emitted in the night sky. The usage of stars is for the nature of the stars: never stopping, never cancelling the chosen path, always moving forward, being a guide for travellers, and existing since the beginning of the world indicating that Burma is with its rightful glory as an independent republic on the earth, while the colour white represents purity, righteousness and steadfastness.<ref name="BAM"/> This flag has a ratio of 5:9 in which the canton has a ratio of 2{{frac|1|2}}:4.<ref name=AFPFLN>{{cite news |title=ပြည်ထောင်စု သမတမြန်မာငံနိုင် အလံတော် |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=9 August 1947 |work=ဖဆပလ သတင်းစဉ်}}</ref>{{rp|8}}<ref>[https://www.fotw.info/flags/mm-old.html#oldflag Myanmar (Burma): former flags]. Fotw.net. Retrieved on 27 May 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429004112/https://www.fotw.info/flags/mm-old.html#oldflag |date=29 April 2011 }}</ref> On 3 January 1974, it was replaced by the State Flag of the [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma]].<ref name=dd>{{cite book |title=ဒီဟာအစ ဒီလိုဗျ |author=မောင်အုန်းဖေ |date=May 2004 |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/%28X%281%29%29/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/135 |access-date=31 March 2022 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221085453/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/(X(1))/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/135 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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! Colours scheme !! style="background-color:#2042A1"|<span style="color:white;">Blue</span> !! style="background-color:#DA2D1C"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
|-
| '''[[RGB color model|RGB]]''' || 32-66-161 || 218-45-28 || 255-255-255
|-
| '''[[Hexadecimal]]''' || #2042A1 || #DA2D1C || #FFFFFF
|-
| '''[[CMYK color model|CMYK]]''' || 80, 59, 0, 37 || 0, 79, 87, 15 || 0, 0, 0, 0
|}

=== 1974 flag ===
[[File:Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg|thumb|State Flag of the [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma]] (3 January 1974 – 18 September 1988) and the [[State Peace and Development Council|Union of Myanmar]] (18 September 1988 – 21 October 2010).<br />
Proportion 5:9; civil and state flag and state ensign. {{FIAV|110010}}{{FIAV|Historical}}]]

The State Flag<ref name=C74>Article 191, Chapter {{rn|XIV}}, Constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma, 1974</ref> designed by [[Mya Thaung]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15pZNHTxdz/|title=ရွှေတံဆိပ်သုံးဆု ပိုင်ရှင် အိမ်ခြေမဲ့ ဦးမြသောင်း &#124; ရွှေတံဆိပ်သုံးဆု ပိုင်ရှင် အိမ်ခြေမဲ့ ဦးမြသောင်း ~~~ # ပန်းချီပန်းပု #ပညာရှင် #ဦးမြသောင်း #လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ #rfaburmese &#124; By RFA Burmese|website=[[Facebook]] }}</ref> and adopted on 3 January 1974<ref name=dd/> upon the coming into force of the [[Constitution of Myanmar#1974 Constitution|Constitution]] of the [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma]] has a similar ratio and background colours as the previous flag but with different charge in the canton. The colour representations are also different: white is for purity and virtue, red for bravery and decisiveness, blue for peacefulness and steadfastness. It depicts 14 equal-sized white stars encircling a pinion with 14 cogs and ear of paddy with 34 grains superimposed on it (each star on each cog of the pinion) in a blue canton against a red field. The paddy represents peasants while the pinion represents workers; the combination symbolizes the peasants and workers as the foundation social classes for building the State. The 14 equal-sized white stars represent the equality and unity of the [[administrative divisions of Burma|14 members (7 states and 7 divisions)]] of the Union.<ref>{{cite book |title=မြန်မာ့ စွယ်စုံကျမ်း |trans-title=Burmese Encyclopedia |volume=14 |pages=293–294 |publisher=Burma Translation Society |location=Rangoon |language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2006 |title=မြန်မာဖတ်စာ ဒုတိယတန်း (Grade-3) |trans-title=Myanmar Textbook for Second Standard (Grade-3) |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/7116 |language=my |location= |publisher=Ministry of Education, Government of the Union of Myanmar |page=1 |isbn= |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001085230/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/7116 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 14-star flag was hung upside down during the [[8888 Uprising]] of 1988 by demonstrators as a sign of protest against the military government. Despite its association with the period of military rule under Ne Win and later the [[State Peace and Development Council]], the 1974 flag is used by demonstrators in the [[2021 Myanmar protests]], alongside the 1948 flag.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Myint-U|first=Thant|date=11 June 2021|title=Myanmar's Coming Revolution|language=en-US|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/burma-myanmar/2021-06-11/myanmars-coming-revolution|access-date=11 June 2021|issn=0015-7120|archive-date=30 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230161431/http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/burma-myanmar/2021-06-11/myanmars-coming-revolution|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1 February 2021|title=Japan's Myanmar community express shock and concern after Aung San Suu Kyi's detention|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/01/national/myanmar-community-japan/|access-date=11 June 2021|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|archive-date=27 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127003823/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/01/national/myanmar-community-japan/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=In Pictures: Myanmar military seizes power|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/2/1/innpischd|access-date=11 June 2021|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921231532/https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/2/1/innpischd|url-status=live}}</ref>

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! Colours scheme !! style="background-color:#2042A1"|<span style="color:white;">Blue</span> !! style="background-color:#DA2D1C"|<span style="color:white;">Red</span> !! style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|White
|-
| '''[[RGB color model|RGB]]''' || 32-66-161 || 218-45-28 || 255-255-255
|-
| '''[[Hexadecimal]]''' || #2042A1 || #DA2D1C || #FFFFFF
|-
| '''[[CMYK color model|CMYK]]''' || 80, 59, 0, 37 || 0, 79, 87, 15 || 0, 0, 0, 0
|}

== Vertical style ==
=== Current flag ===
When hanging or depicting vertically, the yellow must be on left and the star must point to left. <br>[[File:Flag of Myanmar (vertical).svg|125px|centre]]
<ref>{{cite web
|title=President Obama Promises Support for the People of Burma
|date=19 November 2012
|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/11/19/president-obama-promises-support-people-burma
|website=obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
|access-date=25 March 2022
|archive-date=2 March 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302103043/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/11/19/president-obama-promises-support-people-burma
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://library.olympics.com/Default/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionInlineDownloadHandler.ashx?documentId=157629&_cb=1528675200 |title=London 2012 Flags and Anthems Manual |access-date=25 March 2022 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328142325/https://library.olympics.com/Default/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionInlineDownloadHandler.ashx?documentId=157629&_cb=1528675200 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Obsolete flags ===
==== 1948 flag ====
When hanging or depicting vertically, the blue canton must be in the upper hoist, and the stars in the canton must point to the left.
[[File:Vertical flag of Burma (1948–1974).svg|125px|centre]]
<ref name="BAM"/>

== Influence of pre-independence flags ==
=== The Tricolours ===
In 1930, the [[Dobama Asiayone]] adopted a [[Tricolour (flag)|tricolour]] ({{langx|my|သုံးရောင်ခြယ်}}, {{literal translation|three colour painted}}) of yellow, green and red.<ref name="BAM">{{cite book |url=https://m.facebook.com/shwethwayjournal/posts/692795517793258?locale2=ms_MY |title=နိုင်ငံတော်အလံနှင့်နေ့ထူးများ THE NATIONAL FLAG AND THE SIGNIFICANT DAYS OF THE UNION OF BURMA |author=ဗိုလ်အေးမောင် |language=my |publisher=Burma Translation Society |location=Rangoon |date=1955 |access-date=26 March 2022 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221085453/https://m.facebook.com/shwethwayjournal/posts/692795517793258?locale2=ms_MY |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1935, a peacock was added in the centre of the tricolour.<ref name="DAH">{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1976 |title=တို့ဗမာအစည်းအရုံးသမိုင်း |trans-title=Dobama Asiayone history |language=my |url= |location= |publisher=စာပေဗိမာန် |page= |isbn=}}</ref> In 1938, the leftists from Dobama Asiayone replaced the peacock with a [[hammer and sickle]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Khin Yi |date=1988 |title=The Dobama Movement in Burma (1930-1938) |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780877271185/the-dobama-movement-in-burma-19301938/#bookTabs=1 |location= |publisher=Cornell University Press |page=39 |isbn= |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=8 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208085238/https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780877271185/the-dobama-movement-in-burma-19301938/#bookTabs=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Both of the tricolours were widely used by anti-colonialists during British rule. The peacock flag was also used by the [[Burma Independence Army]] and the [[State of Burma]] adopted it as the national flag from 1943 to 1945. In 1943, a stylized version of the peacock was introduced. This version was used by the Burma Defense Army (with the peacock in red) and as a variant of the national flag by the State of Burma (with the peacock in gold). There are two songs with the same name, "{{lang|my|သုံးရောင်ခြယ်သီချင်း}}" (meaning: "Tricolour Song"), composed by two different composers about the meaning behind the Tricolour symbolism and the hope of Burmese people.<ref name="DAH"/>

<gallery widths="180">
File:National flag of Third Burmese Empire (Konbaung Dynasty).svg|Flag of Third Burmese Empire (Konbaung Dynasty) (1826–1885)
File:Flag of Imperial India.svg|Burma as part of British India (1930–1935)
File:Burmese Nationalist Flag.svg|Dobama Asiayone (1930–1935)
File:Flag of the State of Burma (1943–1945).svg|Dobama Asiayone (1935–1938)
File:Hammer and Sickle flag of Burma.svg|Dobama Asiayone (1938–1939)
File:Black Hammer and Sickle flag of Burma.svg|Dobama Asiayone (Variant) (1938–1939)
File:Flag of Burma (1939–1941, 1945–1948).svg|Flag of British Burma (1939–1941)
File:Flag of Burma (1941–1942).svg|Flag of British Burma (1941–42)
File:Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg|Period of Japanese military administration (1942–1943)
File:Flag of Burma 1943.svg|Burma Independence Army (1942)
File:Flag of Burma 1943.svg|The State of Burma (1943–1945)
File:Flag of the State of Burma (Stylized version).svg|The State of Burma (stylized) (1943–1945)
File:Burma Defence Army Flag.svg|Burma Defence Army (1943)
File:Flag of Burma (1939–1941, 1945–1948).svg|Flag of British Burma (1945–1948)
</gallery>

In these tricolours, the color yellow symbolizes the ''[[Śāsana]]'' ([[Buddhism in Myanmar|Buddhism]]) and education, green represents staple grains, crops, minerals and jewelry, red signifies bravery or courage, and the peacock represents the [[Konbaung Dynasty|Konbaung]].<ref name="DAH"/> The hammer and sickle represent workers and peasants, respectively.

===The Resistance Flag===
[[File:Flag of the AFPFL.svg|thumb|The Resistance Flag (1945)]]
In 1945, when the [[Burma Independence Army#Change of sides|Burma National Army]] changed sides and fought together with local resistance forces against the Japanese. A new flag, with a red field charged with a white star in the upper hoist, was adopted as the "Resistance Flag."<ref name="BAM"/>

=== Influences ===
The tricolours and the resistance flag have been depicted as "national flags" together with the pre-colonial and post-independence national flags.<ref>{{cite book |title=မြန်မာ့သမိုင်းဝင်အလံများနှင့် မြန်မာခေါင်းဆောင်များ |trans-title=Myanmar's Historical Flags and Myanmar Leaders |author=ဝရဇိန် (ဆရာစံမြေ) |date=September 2011 |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/20045 |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106040621/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/20045 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lostfootsteps.org/storage/app/media/images/4th_of_january_1948_-_the_rangoon_daily-2.jpg |title=ရန်ကုန်နေ့စဉ်သတင်းစာ THE RANGOON DAILY အတွဲ င။ ၁၃၀၉ ခု။ ပြာသိုလဆုတ် ၉ ရက် တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့။ SUNDAY 4 January 1948 အမှတ် ၅၃ |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=9 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909212745/https://www.lostfootsteps.org/storage/app/media/images/4th_of_january_1948_-_the_rangoon_daily-2.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stampboards.com/download/file.php?id=97356 |title=A stamp issued on 2 March 1974 |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=9 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909212745/https://www.stampboards.com/download/file.php?id=97356 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.popularmyanmar.com/popularnews/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9-768x510.jpg |title=Flags flown in Maha Bandula Park on 2 January 2018 |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811195533/https://www.popularmyanmar.com/popularnews/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9-768x510.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> The resistance flag is alluded to and honoured by the 1948–1974 flag,<ref name="BAM"/> while all the tricolours are referred and honoured by the current flag.<ref name="UFL"/><ref name="MT11"/>

== Proposals ==

=== 1947 proposals ===
In 1947, the Constituent Assembly of the Union of Burma formed a preparatory committee for State flag, State seal and State anthem. That committee held a flag design contest, and the flag designed by Maung Win won the first prize.<ref name=NNS13>{{cite book |author=နန်းညွန့်ဆွေ |date=September 2013 |title=သုံးရောင်ခြယ်နှင့် စစ်တွင်းခေတ် လွတ်လပ်ရေးကြိုးပမ်းမှုစာစု |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/29261 |language=my |location= |publisher= |isbn= |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221085453/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/29261 |url-status=live }}</ref> There was a dispute at the committee's meeting in August 1947 whether or not the peacock should be added further to the proposed State flag; but after long discussions, the committee decided that the peacock should be rejected.<ref name=AFPFLN/>

<gallery widths=180>
File:Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg|Flag designed by Maung Win, which won the first prize at the flag design contest (1947)
</gallery>

=== 2006–2007 proposals ===
A new design for the national flag was proposed on 10 November 2006 during a [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]]. The new flag would have consisted of three equally sized green, yellow, and red horizontal stripes, with a white star in the hoist end of the green stripe.<ref name="globalflag">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalflag.idv.tw/zy/mmr.htm|title=緬甸 Myanmar/Burma|last=Tai|first=Yu-liang|language=zh|access-date=23 October 2010|archive-date=4 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204132522/http://www.globalflag.idv.tw/zy/mmr.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In September 2007, another new design was proposed with a larger white star in the middle and with the stripes in a different order, namely: yellow, green, and red.<ref name="globalflag"/> The proposal was a version of [[#Influence of pre-independence anti-colonial flags|Burmese Tricolour]] with the white star. This proposal is also based on the flag of the [[National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma]].

The flag proposed in September 2007 was included in the [[Constitution of Burma#2008 Constitution|new constitution]], and was accepted with the [[2008 Burmese constitutional referendum|2008 referendum]].<ref name="Robert Birsel">{{cite news|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE69K2HM20101021|title=Myanmar gets new flag, official name, anthem|last=Birsel|first=Robert|date=21 October 2010|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=23 October 2010|archive-date=27 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427194356/http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE69K2HM20101021|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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Flag of Myanmar (2006 proposal).svg|2006 proposal
Flag of Myanmar.svg|2007 proposal
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=== Former 2019 proposals ===
Two years before the 2021 coup, the ruling [[National League for Democracy]] (NLD) proposed a series of constitutional amendments in July 2019, including one to change the national flag. Four political parties, the NLD, [[Shan Nationalities League for Democracy|SNLD]], [[Zomi Congress for Democracy|ZCD]] and [[National Unity Party (Myanmar)|NUP]] proposed four new designs for the flag.<ref>{{cite news|title=မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အလံကိုပြောင်းချင်သူတွေ|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/burmese/burma-49024283|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=17 July 2019|access-date=22 October 2019|archive-date=19 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219085155/https://www.bbc.co.uk/burmese/burma-49024283|url-status=live}}</ref> The NLD proposed changing the national flag as they do not believe that the flag adopted in 2010 has the full support of the people of Myanmar.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cho |first1=Phyo Thiha |title=NLD Wants Military Lawmakers Out of Parliament By 2035… And a New National Flag |url=https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/nld-wants-military-lawmakers-out-of-parliament-by-2035-and-a-new-national-flag |access-date=10 December 2019 |work=Myanmar Now |date=24 July 2019 |language=en |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221090057/https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/nld-wants-military-lawmakers-out-of-parliament-by-2035-and-a-new-national-flag |url-status=live }}</ref> Their proposed flag was based on the flag adopted by the country at independence and consisted of a red field with a blue canton in the upper hoist. Within the blue canton is a large white star representing the union which is surrounded by 14 smaller white stars representing the states and regions of the country. <ref>{{cite news |last1=Thar |first1=Hein |title=NLD among four parties seeking new national flag |url=https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/nld-among-four-parties-seeking-new-national-flag |access-date=10 December 2019 |work=Frontier Myanmar |date=24 July 2019 |language=en |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221085455/https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/nld-among-four-parties-seeking-new-national-flag/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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Flag of Myanmar (2019 proposal).svg|The NLD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD)'s proposal 2019.svg|The SNLD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD)'s proposal 2019.svg|The ZCD's proposal
File:Flag of Myanmar - The National Unity Party (NUP)'s proposal 2019.svg|The NUP's proposal
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== Historical flags before 1948 ==
{{Main|List of Burmese flags#Historical flags}}
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File:Golden Hintar flag of Burma.svg|Flag used in the [[Hanthawaddy kingdom]] ({{circa|1287}}–1552)<ref>{{Cite web|title=crwflags.com|url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/mm-hist.html|access-date=27 November 2021|archive-date=21 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221090127/https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/mm-hist.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
File:Flag of Konbaung Dynasty (Nonrectangular).svg|Flag used as national flag of Burma under [[Konbaung Dynasty]] ({{circa|1752}}–1885)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/%28X%281%29%29/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/16017 |title=ဒေါင်းဋီကာ |trans-title=Peacock Details |author=[[Thakin Kodaw Hmaing|Mister Maung Hmaing]] |date=1914 |access-date=28 March 2022 |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106040612/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/(X(1))/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/16017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/20045 |title=မြန်မာ့သမိုင်းဝင်အလံများနှင့် မြန်မာခေါင်းဆောင်မျာ |trans-title=Myanmar's Historical Flags And Myanmar Leaders |author=ဝရဇိန် (ဆရာစံမြေ) |date=September 2011 |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106040621/http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/MyanmarBooks/BookDetails/20045 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=475026862992950&id=100014569205043&set=a.136703043492002&source=48 Page 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221144314/https://m.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D475026862992950%26id%3D100014569205043%26set%3Da.136703043492002%26source%3D48&refsrc=deprecated&_rdr |date=21 December 2022 }}, Part 2, Treatise about State Seals and State Flags Used Through Successive Periods In Myanmar. <br>Presenter = Yi Yi Nyunt, Director, Nationalities Youth Resources Development Degree College Sagaing, Department of Education and Practising, Ministry of Border Affairs, Republic of the Union of Myanmar</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://heavenmall.net/products/product_category_name-book-15537 |title=မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်သမိုင်း |trans-title=Myanmar State History |author=[[:my:ဗန်းမော်တင်အောင်|ဗန်းမော်တင်အောင်]] |access-date=28 March 2022 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210051452/https://heavenmall.net/products/product_category_name-book-15537 |url-status=live }}</ref>
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|[[Flag of the United Kingdom]] used as the colonial flag of [[British Burma]] (1886 – 1942 ; 1945 – 4 January 1948<ref name="BP">{{cite AV media |date =1948 |title =Burma Celebrates Independence 1948 |type = |language = |url =https://www.britishpathe.com/video/burma-celebrates-independence |publisher =British Pathé |id =VLVA9I02D6F29HT6UH95ALQGCYMK |isbn = |oclc = |quote = |access-date =1 April 2022 |archive-date =21 December 2022 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20221221090956/https://www.britishpathe.com/video/burma-celebrates-independence |url-status =live }}</ref>)
File:British Burma 1937 flag.svg|Colonial flag of [[British Burma]] (6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941;<ref name="HHN2">{{cite web |title=Myanmar Burma Part 2 |url=http://www.hubert-herald.nl/Myanmar1.htm |website=hubert-herald.nl |author=Hubert de Vries |date=27 March 2012 |access-date=31 March 2022 |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118235142/http://www.hubert-herald.nl/Myanmar1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> 1945 – 3 January 1948)
File:Flag of Burma (1941–1942).svg|Provisional colonial flag of [[British Burma]] (30 March 1941 – 1942)<ref name="HHN2"/>
File:Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg|Provisional flag of [[Japanese occupation of Burma|Japanese Military Administration of Burma]] (1942–1943)
File:Flag of Burma 1943.svg|State flag of the State of Burma (1 August 1943<ref name="HHN2"/> – 1945)
File:Flag of the State of Burma (Stylized version).svg|Stylized variant design of the flag of the State of Burma (1943–1945)
</gallery>

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180>
File:Myanmar Presidential Palace.jpg|Flag of Myanmar flown on the [[Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw]]
File:Flag of Myanmar at Byint Naung Statue Garden Park.jpg|Flag of Myanmar flown at Bayint Naung Statue Garden Park in [[Kawthaung]].
File:Flag of Myanmar and Tanintharyi Region at 1199 Mountain Peak.jpg|The flag of Myanmar flown alongside the flag of [[Tanintharyi Region]]{{clarification needed|date=June 2024|This does not appear to be the flag of Tanintharyi Region}} on 1199 Mountain Peak in Kawthaung.
File:Barack Obama speaks at University of Yangon.jpg|Barack Obama addressing the Burmese public during a speech at the University of Yangon on 19 November 2012. The vertical version of the Union Flag was depicted on the wall behind.
</gallery>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Heraldry|Myanmar}}
* [[List of Burmese flags]]
* [[State Seal of Myanmar]]
* The similar [[flag of Lithuania]] and [[flag of Ethiopia]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
{{commons category|Flags of Myanmar}}
* {{FOTW|id=mm|title=Myanmar}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406101349/http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar/myanmar-flag-emblem.htm Timeline Flag of Myanmar]

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