The National Flag of Sri Lanka
The National Flag of Sri Lanka represents the country and her heritage as a rallying device that integrates the minorities with the majority race.
Sri Lanka National Flag is an improvisation of the civil
standard of the last king of Sri Lanka, Sri Wickrama Rajasingha. The
civil standard had a passant royal lion with a sword in its right fore
paw at the center and a bo-leaf on each of the four corners on a plain
border.
When Sri Lanka gained her
independence from Great Britain on February 04, 1948, it was the lion
flag of the last king of Sri Lanka was hoisted once again. The first Prime Minister of
independent Sri Lanka, D.S.Senanayake, appointed a committee to advise
the government on the design of a new national flag. The design approved
by the committee in February 1950 retained the symbol of the lion with
the sword and the bo-leaves from the civil standard of the last king of
Sri Lanka, with the inclusion of two verticle stripes green and orange
in color. the significance of each symbol of the national flag is as
follows:
