Northern Province

Use	Civil andstate flag
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	22 May 2007
Design	A red, white, green tricolour with the sun depicted in the centre, surrounded by a blue border.

Theflag of Northern Province was adopted for theNorthern Province ofSri Lanka on 22 May 2007.^[1][2]

With theSupreme Court ruling that by 2007 the 1987 order of merging the two provinces, under theIndo-Sri Lanka Accord,Northern andEastern was illegal and therefore the two provinces must be administered separately. This meant two separate flags for the Northern and Eastern provinces.^[3]

The Northern Province flag was unveiled along with theflag of Eastern Province inTrincomalee, in May 2007. Thegovernor of the Eastern ProvinceRear AdmiralMohan Wijewickrama, also at the time the actinggovernor of the Northern Province, handed over the two flags to each of the province's respective council's chief secretary,S. Rangarajah of the North andHerath Abeyeweera of the East, at a ceremony at the Governor's Secretariat.^[1]

The flag has a symbol of the Sun in the middle of the flag, indicating synergy of power and natural energy sources of the province. It has three vertical stripes, red indicating labour and industriousness, white fraternity, peace and co-existence and green for the greenery and agriculture in the province. The flag is surrounded by a blue border symbolising the north's ocean resource.^[4][5]

The size of the flag is 126 X 72 cm.

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