Talk:Flag of Nepal

Irregular flags
The first sentence of the article says: "The national flag of Nepal...is the world's only irregular flag acting as both the state flag and civil flag of a sovereign country." The word irregular links to the page for irregular polygons. Non-square rectangles are irregular polygons, though, so most flags would be be irregular polygons. Is there a different word that can be used here instead? — Preceding unsigned comment added by User.name.here (talk • contribs) 16:08, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Non-rectangular flags
I'm not sure, but as much as I know there are 2 other national flags that aren't rectangualar: The flag of Switzerland and the flag of the Vatican City.

Maybe somebody could check this and edit the main article accordingly. (I didn't do it, because I'm note sure.)

--Eddie2 13:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * sighs Vatican City's and Switzerland's flags are *SQUARES*. Squares are rectangles. Case closed. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 21:39, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but I added this to clarify:

"It is also one of only three national flags whose shape is not of a rectangle with unequal sides (the other two being Switzerland and Vatican City, which are square)."

Hope this is a good solution...74.108.140.119 04:58, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

If you look in the edit history of this page, you'll see that some information about the flag's meaning has been removed without comment. I haven't time to verify it, but since the editor wasn't even logged in, I think it would bear checking out. -- IMSoP 21:50, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * This is the guy: Special:Contributions/68.225.158.2. I don't get it either. --Menchi 23:54, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

The information given in the article about Flag of Nepal in www.wikipedia.org is not totally correct. The shape of the current national flag comes from the traditional heritage. Some temples built during the period of Malla dynasty rulars before 19th century in Kathmandu valley have metallic flags on their roofs very much similar to the present day national flag. The current flag was adopted from those symbols on the roofs of the temples and not as described in article.

Rectangle
I am not saying that the rectangle version is a farce but please provide some citation for it. thanks --Kushalt 17:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. I've looked up several pages of results on google with no evidence except on wikipedia. I suggest that it be removed until a source can be found.  S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s  ( Talk to Me  ) 00:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed the rectangular version, and it should stay that way until its existence can be proven. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 23:01, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Determination
I think we should determine once and for all what the sentence claiming that the Nepalese flag is the only [blah blah blah] should say, and then leave an invisible note on the actual article (ie a warning any potential editors what we have determined the sentence to say that someone just reading the article would not see). Keep in mind that a square is in fact a rectangle, and even if it wasn't a rectangle, listing any flags that are squares in the article would have to include not only Switzerland, but also the Holy See and most of the Swiss Cantons, thereby making the claim that the Nepalese flag is the only non-rectangular flag in the world besides 30 others kind of pointless.--Nkrosse (talk) 21:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

New flag
Any word on whether the new republican/communist government will change the flag? --Tocino 07:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC) They have changed the flag but I couldn't find the information anywhere on net. Nepal is also not Hindu Nation anymore.--Nikhil Sanjay Bapat (talk) 02:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Vague Descriptions of Symbolisms
A number of vague description of symbolisms exist in this article. Statements such as "the two triangles signify two religions/ mountains..." etc. are not verifiable and may not be suitable as encyclopedic content. It is proposed that they be removed. S&#124;O&#124;Y (talk) 02:48, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

World's only non-quadrilateral *national* flag
The point I'm trying to make is, Nepal isn't the only country with a non-... flag. Never forget the micronations! I think we should add something to this sentence signifying that it is the only non-... flag of a country that is internationally recognized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trppmdm (talk • contribs) 22:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see any non-quadrilateral flags in Flags of micronations. And even if there were any I don't think anyone considers micronations when talking about countries. SiBr4 (talk) 22:53, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Dilipdilufj
Dilipdilufj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2400:1A00:B040:EFD2:3D60:E183:8FC:AAE5 (talk) 15:46, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

"world's only irregular flag"
The vast majority of national flags are irregular, since they are not equilateral. Inequiangular might be a suitable alternative. National flag should also probably be clarified since flag by itself suggests any flag in any situation. 𝐗𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 talk sandbox contribs 02:57, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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