The national flag is bottle green in color and rectangular in size with length to width ratio of 10:6 bearing a red circle on the body of the green. The red circle has a radius of one fifth of the length of the flag. It's center is placed on the middle of the perpendicular drawn from the nine twentieth part of the length of the flag. The background color symbolize the greenery of Bangladesh with it's vitality and youthfulness while the red disc represents the rising sun of independence after the dark night of a blood drenched struggle. The National Emblem of the People's Republic of Bangladesh - The national flower Shapla (water Lily) is surrounded by two sheaves of rice (bottom left).