Flag of the Republic of Vietnam
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| Name | Flag of the Republic of Vietnam (Heritage and Freedom Flag – Lá cờ Tự do và Di sản), Gold Flag with Three Red Stripes Cờ vàng ba sọc đỏ |
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| Use | Civil and state flag |
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | June 14, 1949 |
| Design | Yellow flag with three red stripes. |
| Designed by | Lê Văn Đệ |
Variant flag of Republic of Vietnam
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| Name | Flag of the RVNMF. |
| Use | War flag |
| Design | Yellow flag with three red stripes, and the emblem of RVNMF (gold eagle) in the middle. |
| Designed by | Design is a variant of the flag of South Vietnam. |
Flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (1969-1976)
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| Name | Flag of the Viet Cong |
| Use | State and war flag, civil and state ensign |
| Design | A large yellow star centered on a bi-colored red and azure field. |
| Designed by | Flag used by Viet Cong |
The flag of South Vietnam served as South Vietnam national flag between 1948 and 1975 . The flag is no longer officially used in Vietnam today, but is still shown by many exiled Vietnamese, especially in the US. (see also: Boat People) .The flag was originally inspired by Emperor Thành Thái in 1890, and was revived by Lê Văn Đệ and re-adopted by Emperor Bảo Đại in 1948. It was the flag of the former State of Vietnam (the French-controlled areas in both Northern and Southern Vietnam) from 1949 to 1955, and later of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) up until 1975, after the fall of Saigon. The flag consists of a yellow field and three horizontal red stripes and can be explained as either symbolising the unifying blood running through northern, central, and southern Vietnam, or as representing the symbol for "south" (as in, south from China (Viet Nam itself) and also nam meaning south), in Daoist trigrams.
Although the South Vietnamese state ceased to exist in 1975, today the South Vietnamese flag still finds use among private citizens in other countries. Many Vietnamese expatriates (Viet Kieu), particularly former South Vietnamese citizens who fled Vietnam in the late 1970s and 1980s as Boat People, consider the current Vietnamese flag representative of the Communist regime they fled. From June 2002 onward, in the United States, at least 13 state governments, seven counties and 85 cities in 20 states have adopted resolutions recognizing the yellow flag as the Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag. In Vietnam, attempts to display this flag had resulted in prosecutions for "propaganda against the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".
During the reign of Emperor Gia Long (1802–1820), the yellow flag was also used as the symbol of the Empire of Vietnam. This was continued as the Emperor's flag when the Court of Hue became a French protectorate.
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