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Every other country on the planet flies a rectangle. Nepal's flag is built from two triangles, a 19th-century family rivalry, and eight steps of…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 31, 2026
Look at almost any national flag and you'll see the same basic shape: a rectangle. Then there's Nepal. Its flag is the only national flag on Earth that isn't a rectangle or a square — two stacked crimson triangles, taller than they are wide — and by law it…
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What this means for you You'll see this flag everywhere on a Nepal trip, and now you'll know why it looks the way it does — snapping from a bamboo pole over a teahouse in the Khumbu, painted on a porter's jacket, strung above Kathmandu's Durbar Square, or…
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