Flag of Japan ring around the red sun. It was later replaced by a flag that consisted of the 〒 postal mark in red on a white background. Two recently designed national flags resemble the Japanese flag. In 1971, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan, and it adopted a national flag that had a green background, charged with an off-centered red disc that contained a golden map of Bangladesh. The current flag, adopted in 1972, dropped the golden map and kept everything else. The Government of Bangladesh officially calls the red disc a circle; the red color symbolizes the blood that was shed to
Flag of Sri Lanka of Sri Lanka represents the country and its heritage as a rallying device. Most symbols in the flag have been given distinctive meanings. Flag of Sri Lanka The flag of Sri Lanka (; ), also called the Lion Flag or "Sinha" Flag, consists of a gold lion holding a "kastane" sword in its right fore-paw in a maroon background with four gold bo leaves in each corner. This is bordered by gold, and to its left are two vertical stripes of equal size in green and saffron, with the saffron stripe closest to the lion. The lion and the maroon