Flag of North Macedonia

Republic of North Macedonia

Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	5 October 1995; 29 years ago (1995-10-05) (as established in the Constitution of North Macedonia)
Design	A stylized yellow sun on a red field, with eight broadening rays extending from the centre to the edge of the field.
Designed by	Miroslav Grčev

The flag of North Macedonia (Macedonian: Знаме на Северна Македонија, romanized: Zname na Severna Makedonija) depicts a stylized yellow sun on a red field, with eight broadening rays extending from the center to the edge of the field. It was created by Miroslav Grčev and was adopted on 5 October 1995.

The eight-rayed sun derives from the national emblem^[1] and represents the "new sun of Liberty" referred to in "Denes nad Makedonija" ("Today over Macedonia").^[2] The first post-Yugoslav flag of the country, adopted in 1992, known as the Kutlesh flag, featured the Vergina Sun, a symbol that had been discovered at Aigai, the first capital and burial ground of the ancient kings of Macedon. Greece imposed a year-long economic embargo in order to persuade the country to remove it from its flag, resulting in the current design.