The national flag of Singapore was adopted in 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. The design is a horizontal bicolour of red above white, overlaid in the canton by a white crescent moon facing a pentagon of five small white five-pointed stars. The elements of the flag denote a young nation on the ascendant, universal brotherhood and equality, and national ideals.
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The national flag of Singapore was adopted in 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. It was reconfirmed as the national flag when the republic gained independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965. The design is a horizontal bicolour of red above white, overlaid in the canton by a white crescent moon facing a pentagon of five small white five-pointed stars. The elements of the flag denote a young nation on the ascendant, universal brotherhood and equality, and national ideals. Rules defined by the Singapore Arms and Flag and National Anthem Act govern the use and display of thenational flag. These have been relaxed to allow citizens to fly the flag from vehicles during national holidays and from homes at any time of the year. During the second half of the 20th century, the star and crescent represents a waxing crescent and white symbolises everlasting purity and virtue. The five stars stand for the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, justice and equality. The flag was hoisted on Singapore by the Malaysian Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on 16 September 1962, when the people voted to join the Federation of Malaysia. Prior to its independence, it was the only state flag in Malaysia not to have a 1: 2 ratio. The rules define the flag’s composition and the composition of its elements: red symbolisesuniversal brotherhood and equality of man, white symbolic of peace and justice, and five stars symbolises the waxing crescent moon and white five pointed stars, and the pentagon symbolises purity and everlasting purity and virtue.
Vessels at sea do not use the flag as an ensign. Non-military government vessels such as coast guard ships fly a state ensign of blue with a red compass rose emblem in the lower fly. Naval warships fly a naval ensign similar to thestate ensign, but in white with an eight-pointing red and white compass rose in the upper fly. The Japanese national flag was used on land by the military and during public events during the Second World War, and was used in Singapore during the occupation of the city by the Japanese during the 1940s. The settlement of Singapore had no separate flag, although the city was granted a coat of arms which featured a lion in 1911. The flag that was used to represent the Settlements was a red diamond containing three gold crowns—one for each settlement separated by a white inverted pall, which resembles an inverted Y. Soon after the Second WW War, Singapore became an independent Crown colony and adopted its own flag. It was modified from the Straits Settlements flag to reduce the number of crowns from three to one. Six months later, upon the installation of the new Yang di-Pertuan Negara on 3 December 1959, the nationalflag was officially adopted, along with the state coat of Arms and the national anthem Majulah Singapura.
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