Flag of South Vietnam

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The flag of South Vietnam was first introduced on 2 June 1948 as the official symbol of the French-associated Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, later served as the national flag of the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam (commonly known as South Vietnam) from 1949 up until the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The design consists of a yellow background with three red horizontal stripes through the middle, representing northern, central, and southern Vietnam. Although the Republic of Vietnam ceased to exist in 1975, the flag is still represented by the Vietnamese diaspora as a major anti-communist symbol. The display of the South Vietnamese flag, while not explicitly banned, is criminalized in Vietnam. Since June 2002, several American governmental bodies adopted resolutions recognizing the former flag as the Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag.

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