AMMAN — Jordan today celebrates the National Flag
Day, as part of the centenary celebrations.
The Royal Court on Friday posted a video on its social media
accounts of the Jordanian fluttering flag, to mark the occasion.
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The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) was set on Friday to
raise the world’s longest flag, setting its sights on breaking a Guinness world
record.
The flag will be 2,132m long and 6m wide for a total area of
12,792sqm, according to privy sources at GAM.
The sources said that Guinness has been contacted and that a
private company has recorded the flag’s measurements, and backed GAM’s request
with the relevant supporting documents.
“The number 2,132 has strong symbolic ties to the centenary.
The numbers 3 and 2 denote the arrival of King Abdullah I to Marka in 1921,
whereas the numbers 1 and 2 refer to the end of the Kingdom’s first centenary
and its entry into the second one under His Majesty King Abdullah’s reign,” the
sources explained.
The flag is set to be hoisted today in the Munther Al-Masri
Street in Amman’s Abdoun Valley area, the sources noted.
In commemoration of the centenary, GAM personnel have hung
around 30,000 flags across various main roads and alleys in the 22 areas within
the municipality’s jurisdiction, in addition to 15,000 metal plaques bearing
the Jordanian flag, which have been installed in squares, at intersections and
on lampposts.
The municipality has also hoisted 700 flags at
intersections, along roads and in public squares.
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