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The national symbol of Nepal[a] is the world's only non-rectangular symbol which is used as both the state and civil flag of a sovereign country.[2] The symbol is a simplified combination of two single pennants, known as a double-pennon. Its crimson red is the symbol of bravery and it also represents the color of the rhododendron, Nepal's national flower, while the blue border is the color of peace. Until 1962, the symbol's emblems, both the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces, but they were removed to modernize the symbol.
The current symbol was adopted on 16 December 1962, along with the formation of a new constitutional government.[3] Shankar Nath Rimal, a civil engineer, standardised the symbol on the request of King Mahendra.[4] It borrows from the original, traditional design,[5] used throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a combination of the two individual pennons used by rival branches of the ruling dynasty.[2] It is the only current national flag that is not a quadrilateral.[6]