LANGUAGE, SCRIPT, NATIONAL EMBLEM, NATIONAL FLAG, NATIONAL ANTHEM AND CAPITAL CITY
Article 75. The Lao language and Lao script are the language and script officially used.
Article 76. The National Emblem of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is a circle depicting in the bottom
part one- half of a cog wheel and red ribbon with the inscription "Lao People's Democratic
Republic", and decorated with crescent-shaped ears of rice on the two sides and red ribbon
stretched between the middle of the rice ears with the inscription "Peace, Independence,
Democracy, Unity and Prosperity". A picture of that Luang Pagoda is located between the t.i.ps of
the rice ears. A road, a paddy field a forest, and a hydroelectric dam are depicted in the middle of
the circle.
Article 77. The National Flag of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is dark blue with red edges and a white
moon. The width of the flag is two-thirds of its length. The area of the red edges on each side is
one-half of the dark blue area. The area of the white moon is equal to four-fifths of the dark blue
area.
Article 78. The national anthem of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is "Xat Lao" song.
Article 79. The Capital city of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is Vientiane
