Mongolia Flag Day
Mongolia Flag Day is held on July 10. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual. Help us
The Mongolia flag is three equal vertically striped with red on each side and a single blue in the middle. The red symbolizes freedom, prosperity, and progress. The blue represents the eternal blue sky. The national symbol Soyombo centers on the hoist side red. State Flag Day is celebrated with a central government-sponsored events including a military parade and a flag raising ceremony on Sükhbaatar Square in the capital of Ulaanbaatar.
In 2008, three MPs in the State Great Khural passed a law on the establishment of State Flag Day. The grounds for this holiday's selection was on the order of Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan on 10 July 1945 to revise the provisions in the "Law on the Design and Composition of the State Flag" at the 43rd Meeting of the State Little Khural of the Mongolian People’s Republic. As a result of its approval by the Bayar government, State Flag Day was celebrated for the first time on July 10 the following year during the inauguration of President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj.
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