Flag of the Empire of Manchukuo 滿洲國; 满洲国; 滿洲国 Mouse Mat

The flag of the Empire of Manchukuo had a mustard yellow field with four horizontal stripes of different colours in the upper-left corner. The colours of the flag were based on the colours on the Five Races Under One Union flags used by the Beiyang government and the Empire of China. Manchukuo (滿洲國; 满洲国; 滿洲国) was a puppet state in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. The area, collectively known as Manchuria by westerners and Japanese, was designated by China's erstwhile Qing Dynasty as the "homeland" of the ruling family's ethnic group, the Manchus, but the Manchus themselves never used "Manchuria" (滿洲) as a place name to refer to the area. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and a pro-Japanese government was installed one year later.