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Line 32: The '''National Flag of the Philippines''' ({{lang-fil\|Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas}}) is a horizontal flag [[List of flags by design#Bicolour\|bicolor]] with equal bands of [[royal blue]] and [[Scarlet (color)\|scarlet]], and with a white, equilateral triangle at the [[hoist (flag)\|hoist]]. In the center of the triangle is a golden-yellow [[Sun (heraldry)\|sun]] with eight primary rays, each representing a Philippine province.<ref group=lower-alpha name=rays /> At each vertex of the triangle is a five-pointed, golden-yellow star, each of which representing one of the country's three main island groups—[[Luzon]], [[Visayas]], and [[Mindanao]], the central star originally referred to [[Panay]] (where Iloilo is located, the first province outside Luzon to have raised this flag) which is commonly mistaken to be the whole island group of [[Visayas]]. Panay, which recent interpretations call as ''"as representative of the entire Visayas region"''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gov.ph/2015/06/12/english-speech-of-president-aquino-at-the-celebration-of-independence-day-2015/\|title=[English] Speech of President Aquino at the celebration of Independence Day\|date=June 12, 2015\|work=Official Gazette\|publisher=Government of the Philippines}}</ref> A unique feature of this flag is its ability to indicate a state of war if it is displayed with the red side on top.<ref name="flag blunder">[http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100927-294642/RP-flag-blooper-in-New-York-not-intentionalUS-embassy RP flag blooper in New York not intentional—US embassy - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930115234/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100927-294642/RP-flag-blooper-in-New-York-not-intentionalUS-embassy \|date=2010-09-30 }}</ref> ==Design== Line 175: \| style="text-align:center" \| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg\|border\|100px]] \|\| 1912–1919 \|\| Variant after [[Arizona]] and [[New Mexico]] achieved statehood \|- \| style="text-align:center" \| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg\|border\|100px]] <br /> {{break}} [[File:Flag of the Philippines (1919-1936).svg\|border\|100px]] \|\| 1919–1936 \|\| rowspan=2 \| From October 30, 1919,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Today in History\|url=http://tumblr.malacanang.gov.ph/post/65498286244/above-the-philippine-flag-as-used-from\|publisher=Presidential Museum and Library\|accessdate=12 June 2016\|date=30 October 2013\|deadurl=yes\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510045843/http://tumblr.malacanang.gov.ph/post/65498286244/above-the-philippine-flag-as-used-from\|archivedate=10 May 2016\|df=}}</ref> two flags were flown in the Philippines, the American flag and the flag conceived by Emilio Aguinaldo which was made the national flag of the Philippines with the repealing of Act No. 1697.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Act No. 1696, s. 1907\|url=http://www.gov.ph/1907/08/23/act-no-1696-s-1907/\|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines\|publisher=Supreme Court Library\|accessdate=12 June 2016\|date=23 August 1907}}</ref> \|\| The American flag remained unchanged since 1919. For the Philippine flag, the design conceived by Emilio Aguinaldo remained but the shades of blue and red were adopted from the American flag. The sun's face was removed, but its stylised rays were retained. It should be noted that there existed many versions of the flag as no official design had been codified. \|- \| style="text-align:center" \| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg\|border\|100px]] <br /> {{break}} [[File:Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg\|border\|100px]] \|\| 1936–1946 \|\| Specifications codified; Defined under Executive Order No. 23, s. 1936 which was signed on March 25, 1936. The shade of blue used was [[navy blue]], following suit from the American Flag. The triangle was made equilateral and the sun's rays were also further simplified, achieving its present form. Also used by the [[Commonwealth of the Philippines\|Commonwealth]] government-in-exile from 1942–1945. Line 205: ===Sun's rays=== Prior to the 1998 independence centennial celebrations, the provincial government of [[Zambales]] lobbied that the sunburst design accommodates a ninth ray, reasoning that their province was also in a state of rebellion in 1896. The Centennial Commission however refuted this change, based on research by the National Historical Institute.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.fotw.us/flags/ph-hist2.html#rays\|title=Adjusting the rays of the flag?\|accessdate=2008-06-15\|date=1998-03-09\|work=Flags of the World\|deadurl=yes\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627224822/http://www.fotw.us/Flags/ph-hist2.html#rays\|archivedate=2008-06-27\|df=}}</ref> In August 2003, then Foreign Affairs Secretary [[Blas Ople]] also lobbied for a ninth ray, saying that [[Quezon province]] should be added. He reasons that the first uprising against the Spaniards happened at the foot of [[Mount Banahaw]] which was led by [[Hermano Pule]] in 1841.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Mallari\|first1=Delfin\|title=Ople urges putting of Quezon in rays of Philippine flag\|accessdate=2014-07-23\|work=Philippine Daily Inquirer\|date=2003-08-20\|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2479&dat=20030820&id=uERaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3144,16334224}}</ref> In 2009, Senate Bill No. 3307 was introduced to add an additional ray to represent the [[Moro people]] in Mindanao who also fought the Spanish and was never occupied by the Spanish colonial government. As of September 24, 2009.<ref>Michael Lim Ubac, [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090924-226635/RP-flag-to-have-9th-ray-to-the-sun RP flag to have 9th ray to the sun] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927052216/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090924-226635/RP-flag-to-have-9th-ray-to-the-sun \|date=2009-09-27 }}, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 24, 2009.</ref> On October 14, 2009, the Senate approved the Conference Committee Report on the bill. {{as of\|2014}}, the Ninth Ray movement is among the prominent groups pushing for the addition of a ninth ray to the flag's sun. Proponents of the movement believe that a ninth ray should be added to represent the Muslim and indigenous people of the country who kept colonizers away from their lands.<ref name=fourthstar>{{cite news\|last1=Cabreza\|first1=Vincent\|title=Place for Sabah in flag sought\|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/69001/place-for-sabah-in-flag-sought/\|accessdate=22 October 2014\|date=13 March 2013}}</ref> ===Fourth star===