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data-file-height="216" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vexillological_symbol" title="Vexillological symbol">Use</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Civil_flag" title="Civil flag">Civil</a> and <a href="/wiki/State_flag" title="State flag">state flag</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Proportion</th><td class="infobox-data">2:3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Adopted</th><td class="infobox-data">14 November 1987</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Design</th><td class="infobox-data">Yellow lion in the center of a red square background of a white flag, with images of the Sun and the Moon to the left of the lion and "Central Province" written in three languages.</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>flag of Central Province</b>, was adopted for the <a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> on 14 November 1987. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Symbolism">Symbolism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Symbolism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a> flag, like many of the other provincial flags depicts the image of a yellow lion in the center. It is on a red square background and again bordered by a yellow border. The red square background is on a white flag yet again bordered by a dotted yellow pattern and red and brown stripes. To the left of the lion are the images of the Sun and the Moon, with a face on the Sun and a rabbit on the moon. The flag has the Central Province written on it three times, in <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>, at the top and <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> on the bottom. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Flag of Sri Lanka">Flag of Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_flags" title="List of Sri Lankan flags">List of Sri Lankan flags</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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