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The red represents the blood spilled to maintain Thailand's independence.

The white stands for purity and is the color of Buddhism.

And the Blue represents the Thai monarchy.

The pattern repeats so that the flag can be flown without ever appearing upside down.

The old Siam (former name of Thailand) flag was a solid red with a white elephant in the middle. In 1917, King Rama the VI witnessed the national flag with a white elephant flown upside down by mistake. To solve the problem, the King declared to use the red flag with horizontal white stripes as the national flag. The red flag with white stripes was changed again in the same year. The reasons for the changing were that blue was the color of the King and the red white blue colored flag, which was similar to the national flags of alliances, would remind the participation of Thailand in the World War I. http:/flagspot.net/flags/th_his.html

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