Flag of South Vietnam
Officially Republic of Vietnam
Locally Việt Nam Cộng hòa
What the flag looks like
A yellow field with three thin horizontal red stripes across the center.
What it means
Yellow represented the Vietnamese people and land, and the three red stripes the three regions of Vietnam: north, center and south.
How to remember it
South Vietnam
is yellow with three thin red stripes through the middle; the Vietnam
that absorbed it in 1975 flips the scheme to a yellow star on red.
Fun facts
- The flag is still widely flown by Vietnamese communities abroad, especially in the United States, as the "Heritage and Freedom Flag".
- After reunification, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976.
South Vietnam at a glance
- Existed
- 1955–1975
- Flag used
- 1949–1975
- Today
- Southern Vietnam, reunified in 1976
- Capital
- Saigon
- Region
- 1955–1975
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Currency
- South Vietnamese đồng
- Flag adopted
- 1949