🚩 Flag of Laos

The national flag of the Lao People's Democratic Republic consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe i…

⬇ SVG (scalable) ⬇ PNG 640 px ⬇ PNG 160 px ⬇ PNG 1280 px

Image files come from flagcdn.com, which publishes national flags free for any use — the SVG scales to billboard size without blurring.

The story of this flag

The national flag of the Lao People's Democratic Republic consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top and bottom red stripes. In the middle is a white disc, the diameter of the disc is 4⁄5 the height of the blue stripe. The flag ratio is 2:3. The flag was first adopted in 1945 under the Lao Issara government of 1945–46, then by the Pathet Lao.

Quoted from Flag of Laos on English Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 — the article lists the sources it was written from. Summary retrieved 2026-10-29.

Laos at a glance

Official name	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Capital	Vientiane
Continent	Asia · South-Eastern Asia
Population	7,664,993
Area	236,800 km²
Languages	Lao
Currency	Lao kip (LAK)
Internet TLD	.la
Calling code	+856