Lebanon flags up world record
- Published: 10/10/2010 at 10:43 PM
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Having breezed through several world records in the culinary field Lebanon has now gone for the big one _ the world's largest national flag, and so huge it needed an airfield.
The Lebanese military on Sunday released a picture taken from the air of the massive flag, stitched in Kuwait, assembled in Lebanon and covering 65,000 square metres (645,600 square feet) "unfurled.''
Morocco is the current holder of the Guinness world record for the largest flag, at a mere 60,000 square metres, a Lebanese military spokesman said.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
