Cambodia Flags – Cambodian Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

The Cambodian flag: Angkor Wat on red

Cambodia’s flag is a horizontal triband of blue, red and blue, the red band twice the depth of the blue ones, with a white outline of Angkor Wat in the centre showing the three towers of the temple’s front elevation. It is the only national flag to carry a building. Red stands for the nation, blue for the monarchy and white for religion, the three words of the Khmer motto Nation, Religion, King. The design was first used in 1948 under King Norodom Sihanouk, set aside through the republic and the years that followed, and restored on 30 September 1993 when the monarchy returned under the new constitution. Angkor Wat itself, built in the twelfth century under Suryavarman II near Siem Reap, has appeared on every Cambodian flag since the 1850s in one form or another. Our Cambodia flag keeps the 1:2:1 band proportions and prints the temple with its five towers reduced to the three visible from the front, as the official drawing specifies.

Independence Day, Khmer New Year and the Water Festival

Independence Day on 9 November recalls the end of French rule in 1953 and is marked by a ceremony at the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh with the flag on every street. Khmer New Year, Chaul Chnam Thmey, falls over three days in mid-April, Pchum Ben in September or October honours ancestors, and Bon Om Touk, the Water Festival in November, brings boat races on the Tonlé Sap in front of the Royal Palace. In the UK the Cambodian community gathers at the Khmer Buddhist temples in and around London and at New Year events, where the flag flies beside the Buddhist flag. In sport Cambodia hosted the 2023 Southeast Asian Games at the new Morodok Techo stadium, the national football side are the Angkor Warriors, and the traditional martial art of kun Khmer and the national boat-racing crews carry the colours.

Sizes, grades and fittings

Choose the 5ft x 3ft for a flagpole, a temple hall or a restaurant wall; the 3ft x 2ft for a window, a shop or a desk wall; the 8ft x 5ft for a stage backdrop or a large fixed pole; and the 20x12in for a car or a hand pole. Flagtex is the printed woven polyester for indoor use and short spells outside, and DuraFlag the heavier knitted polyester with double-stitched edges for a flag that stays on a mast all year. Both have a sewn header and brass eyelets, and the DuraFlag can be ordered with clips or rope and toggle.

Cambodia bunting

Cambodia bunting is a tape of rectangular pennants carrying the blue, red and Angkor Wat design, in 3m and 9m lengths. Three metres frames a doorway, a shrine table or a classroom display; nine metres goes down a temple hall, a marquee or a restaurant frontage for New Year. Each pennant is printed through on both faces and will sit out through a wet afternoon.

Hand flags and table flags

Cambodia hand flags on wooden sticks come in 9x6in and 18x12in for New Year processions, football and school assemblies. The Cambodia table flag is 6x4in on a base for an office, a restaurant counter or a dinner table, and the large wooden table flag at 18x12in suits an embassy desk or a reception. Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar flags are under world flags.

Cambodian flag FAQs

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• Cambodia Flag (20x12in to 8x5ft, Flagtex or DuraFlag)from £6.99
• Cambodia Bunting (3m or 9m)from £9.98
• Cambodia Hand Flags (9x6in, 18x12in)from £5.99
• Cambodia Table Flag 6x4in with Basefrom £1.98
• Cambodia Large Wooden Table Flagfrom £3.98