Mongolia Flags – Mongolian Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

The Mongolian flag and the Soyombo

Mongolia’s flag is three vertical bands, red, blue and red, with the Soyombo in gold on the band nearest the pole. The blue is the eternal blue sky that Mongols have revered since the time of the khans, the red stands for progress and prosperity, and the Soyombo is a stacked emblem from the 17th-century script of Zanabazar: a flame for growth, the sun and crescent moon for the nation’s eternity, two downward-pointing triangles as spearheads against enemies, two horizontal bars for honesty, a taijitu of the two fishes for vigilance, and two upright bars for the strength of a fortress wall. The red-blue-red layout dates from 1940, and the present version was adopted on 12 February 1992 when the five-pointed star that had sat above the Soyombo during the socialist decades was removed. The ratio is 1:2. Our Mongolia flag prints the Soyombo in a proper gold on the hoist band only, so it reads correctly on the obverse.

Naadam, Flag Day and Tsagaan Sar

The flag’s great week is Naadam, the festival of the three manly games of wrestling, archery and horse racing, held on 11 to 13 July in Ulaanbaatar and in every aimag, and preceded by National Flag Day on 10 July, instituted in 2009. Independence from the Qing was declared on 29 December 1911, and Tsagaan Sar, the lunar new year in February, is the family holiday when the flag appears beside the ger door. Britain’s Mongolian community is centred on London, with a summer Naadam of its own, a Buddhist temple and a steady flow of students, and the flag also travels with the Mongol Rally crews who set off from Britain each July. In sport it is waved for the wrestlers, judoka and boxers who have won most of Mongolia’s Olympic medals, for the grand champions who dominated Japanese sumo for two decades, and for the country’s archers and cross-country riders.

Choosing a Mongolia flag

The Mongolia flag is stocked in 20x12in, 3ft x 2ft, 5ft x 3ft and 8ft x 5ft in two grades. Flagtex is the lighter printed woven polyester for a classroom, a restaurant or a few weeks on a pole; DuraFlag is the knitted heavyweight with a double-stitched hem that will stand up to a British winter on a mast. 5ft x 3ft is the standard garden pole size, 3ft x 2ft fits a bracket or a window, 8ft x 5ft is for a stage, a festival gate or a tall fixed pole, and 20x12in fits a hand pole or a vehicle. Each has a sewn header with brass eyelets, and clips or a rope and toggle can be specified on the DuraFlag.

Mongolia bunting

Mongolia bunting is supplied in 3m and 9m strings of rectangular flag pennants sewn to a tape. 3m is enough for a doorway or a buffet table at a Tsagaan Sar gathering; 9m dresses a hall, a ger or a sports pavilion for a Naadam day. The pennants are printed polyester, so they can stay out in the rain, and lengths knot together for a long run. Matching red and blue strings are in the plain bunting range.

Hand flags and table flags

Mongolia hand flags on wooden sticks come in 9x6in and 18x12in for the wrestling, the judo mat and the parade. For a desk, the Mongolia table flag is a 6x4in flag on a base, the 9x6in wooden table flag and the 18x12in large wooden table flag are for a reception or a delegation table, and the sleeved satin table flag suits a formal dinner. China, Kazakhstan, Russia and the rest of Asia are under world flags.

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