The national flag of Vietnam, formally the National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Quốc kỳ nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) [1] [2], locally recognized as the Gold-Starred Red Flag (cờ đỏ sao vàng) [a] or the Motherland flag (cờ Tổ quốc), was designed in 1940 and used during an uprising against the French and Japanese in Southern ...