The flag is qualified to get a new breakable record under the Guinness Book of World Records and "again strengthening Bahrain's leading position on the region and world's maps," Noor said.

MANAMA, Bahrain — A Bahrain demonstrator was sentenced to three months in prison Thursday for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during a 2011 rally, a defense lawyer said, in one of the ...

"The flag is 169.5 metres long and 97.1 metres wide, thus covering an area of 1,6458.45 square metres," she said. "The previous record had been set in August by Pakistan which introduced a 1,6099. ...