Organised by Rotary International | Participants 43,830 | |
Date December 7, 2014 (2014-12-07) Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Footage rotarymyflagmyindia.com | ||
Largest Human Flag of India was an event organised to form the world's largest human national flag in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was organised on 7 December 2014 by Rotary International in India with a slogan -Rotary My Flag My India. More than 50,000 Indians gathered in YMCA Grounds, Chennai to form the world's largest human national flag.
It is the official attempt to break the previous world record was in the name of Sports Club of Lahore, Pakistan. They made their national flag by gathering 28,957 human on February 2014.
Bangladesh has smashed a record set by Pakistan last year by forming the world's largest human flag, Guinness World Records has confirmed. Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi students and armed forces held up red and green coloured placards in Dhaka's National Parade Ground last month to create the huge Bangladeshi national symbol. The formation broke a record set in October 2012, in Pakistan, when 24,000 people assembled a flag in the city of Lahore. On December 16, a total of 27,117 people held the flag together for at least five minutes, following instructions provided by Guinness World Records.
Guinness official Syeda Subasi-Gemici, adjudicator of Guinness World Records Ltd., presented the certificate validating the attempt.
The event saw about one hundred fifty thousand (1.5 Lakh) volunteers, mainly youth, turn up for the event at YMCA Grounds here even as 50,000 of them formed the tricolour, Governor of Rotary 3230.