ASEAN flag

The current Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) flag was adopted in November 1993. Set upon a blue background, ten paddy or rice stalks are drawn in the middle of a red circle. The stalks symbolize ASEAN's ten members. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A paddy field in Japan A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. ... Binomial name Oryza sativa L. Rice (Oryza sativa) is a species of grass in the genus Oryza, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia, where it grows in wetlands. ... Main languages See Languages of ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong of Singapore Area  - Total 4,480,000 km2 Population  - Total (2004)  - Density 550,000,000 122. ...

ASEAN's previous flag is similar. It had six paddy stalks representing the five founding members and Brunei and the word ASEAN written under the stalks. The background was white instead of blue, the border of the circle along with the word ASEAN was turquoise, and the circle was bright yellow. The stalks themselves were brownish in color. White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation) Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420–490 nanometers) of the three additive primary colors. ... Turquoise (or turquois) is opaque, blue-to-green hydrated copper aluminium phosphate mineral according to the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·5H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been enjoyed as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique... Yellow is a color with a wavelength 565-590 nanometers. ... Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green, orange and blue, or yellow and purple pigment. ...

External link

• ASEAN - Official description of the flag
• Flag of the World - Description at FotW along with history