Nepalese Attempt World’s Largest Human Flag Record!

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More than 35,000 Nepalese made a bid Saturday to form the world's largest "human national flag" as they sought to set a new international record.

As the country's anthem played, participants held up crimson, blue and white colored cardboard for 10 minutes on an open ground in Kathmandu's city center to form the national flag.

Cries of "Nepal!" rang out as participants threw the cardboard pieces in the air to celebrate after the attempt.

Nepal's flag is the world's only one which is not a quadrilateral. Instead it is comprised of two triangles.

"We conceived this idea to spread the message that all our countrymen are united under one flag," said Bhawesh Khanal, president of Human Values for Peace and Prosperity, the group that spearheaded the event.

Nepal is in the process of drafting a new constitution, a key step in a stalled peace process begun after the end of a ten-year civil war in 2006. Leaders have promised an inclusive constitution and federalism, ending gender and caste-based discrimination.

Numbered tickets were handed out to participants to keep a count of how many took part in the flag event.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team