The flag of Kyrgyzstan was adopted on March 3, 1992. It consists of a red field with a yellow sun in the center having 40 rays representing the 40 Kirghiz tribes; on the obverse side the rays run counterclockwise, on the reverse, clockwise; in the center of the sun is a red ring crossed by two sets of three lines, a stylized representation of the roof of the traditional Kirghiz yurt. Image File history File links Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan. ... FIAV usage code 48 See Vexillological symbols for its meaning File links The following pages link to this file: Flag of Aruba Flag of the Netherlands Antilles Flag of Guernsey Flag of England Flag of Scotland Flag of Kyrgyzstan Flag of Singapore Flag of Gibraltar Flag of Andorra Flag of... The tricolor flag of France A flag is a piece of coloured cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually for purposes of signalling or identification. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Kirghiz (also Kyrgyz and Kirgiz) are a Turkic-Mongoloid ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. ... A Yurt is a traditional felt home of the nomads who live on the cold, barren steppes of Central Asia. ...
The state flag of the Republic of Kyrgystan is a horizontal rectangle of red colour, in center of which is set a circular solar disk with fourty regularly distributed rays of yellow colour.
The sheet showes obverse and reverse of the flag attached on a flagstaff topped with a spearhead ornamented with an ornament that is almost certainly a hammer and sickle (though it may alos be a crescent and star, it is hard to tell!).
The Standard (flag) of the President of the Kyrghyz Republic consists of a red cloth (color of the State flag of the Kyrghyz Republic), framed with gold tape (width 50 mm) and fringed in gold.
Kyrgyzstan, sometimes dubbed "the Switzerland of Central Asia," is famous for its dramatic landscape of snowcapped mountains, glaciers and high-altitude lakes.
Kyrgyzstan is a republic, with a president who acts as chief of state and a prime minister who heads the government.
Kyrgyzstan prides itself on a strong universal education system; the government estimates that, since the 1970s, almost two-thirds of the country's adult population has received at least a secondary education.