Editing Hexagram (section)

==Other uses==
[[File:Flag of Northern Ireland.svg|thumb|Ulster Banner]]
[[File:Aerial photograph of Heathrow Airport, 1955.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Aerial photograph of [[Heathrow Airport]], London, 1955]]
[[File:Flag of Dardania.svg|thumb|A hexagram appears on the Dardania Flag, proposed for Kosovo by the Democratic League of Kosovo.]]
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[[File:Worthing Station 03.JPG|thumb|Worthing railway station platform 2 canopy]]

===Flags===
* The [[flag of Australia]] had a six pointed star to represent the six federal states from 1901 to 1908.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Australian Flags (3rd ed.)|last=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|publisher=Australian Government|year=2022|isbn=978-0642471345|page=6}}</ref>
* The [[Ulster Banner]] flag of Northern Ireland, used from 1953 to 1972. The six pointed star, representing the six counties that make up Northern Ireland. The star of the Ulster Banner is not the compound of two equilateral triangles. The intersection is not a regular hexagon.
* A flag used by rebels during the [[Whiskey Rebellion|Whiskey Insurrection]] in South-Western Pennsylvania, 1794.
* A hexagram appears on the Dardania Flag, proposed for Kosovo by the [[Democratic League of Kosovo]].
* The [[Flag of Nigeria (1914–1960)|flag of Nigeria]] depicted a green hexagram surrounding a crown from with the white word "Nigeria" under it on a red disc from 1914 to 1960.
* The [[flag of Israel]] has a blue hexagram in the middle.
* The former [[Flag of Portland, Oregon|flag]] of [[Portland, Oregon]] (from 1970 to 2002) features a small six point star in the seal in the canton.

===Other symbolic uses===
* A six-point interlocking triangles has been used for thousands of years as an indication a sword was made, and "[[Proof test|proofed]]", in the [[Damascus]] area of the [[Middle East]]. Still today, it is a required proof mark on all official [[UK]] and [[United States]] [[military]] [[sword]]s though the [[blade]]s themselves no longer come from the [[Middle East]].
* In southern Germany the hexagram can be found as part of tavern anchors. It is symbol for the tapping of beer and sign of the brewer's guild. In German this is called "Bierstern" (beer star) or "[[Brauerstern]]" (brewer's star).
* A six-point star is used as an identifying mark of the [[Folk Nation]] alliance of US street gangs.
* The Indian sage and seer [[Sri Aurobindo]] used it—e.g. on the cover of his books—as a symbol of the aspiration of humanity calling to the Divine to descend into life (the triangle with the point at the top), and the descent of the Divine into the Earth's atmosphere and all individuals in response to that calling (the triangle with the point at the bottom). (This was explained by the Mother, his spiritual partner in Her 14-volume Agenda and elsewhere by Sri Aurobindo in his writings.){{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}
* The [[Seal of Portland, Oregon|seal of the city of Portland, Oregon]] features a small six point star above the head of [[Portlandia (statue)|Lady Commerce]]. The star represents the "crown achievement of Portland's historical leadership."<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1878 |title=SEAL OF THE CITY |work=[[The Oregonian|The Morning Oregonian]] |pages=3}}</ref>

===Man-made and natural occurrences===
* The main runways and taxiways of [[Heathrow Airport]] were arranged roughly in the shape of a hexagram.<ref>[http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44490000/gif/_44490901_heathrow_man_4165.gif bbc.co.uk] and see [[:File:Aerial photograph of Heathrow Airport, 1955.jpg]]</ref>
* A hexagram in a circle is incorporated prominently in the supports of [[Worthing railway station]]'s platform 2 canopy (UK).
* An extremely large, free-standing wood hexagram stands in the central park of the Municipality of [[El Tejar, Chimaltenango|El Tejar, Guatemala]]. Additionally, every year at Christmastime the residents of El Tejar erect a giant artificial Christmas tree in front of their municipal building, with a hexagram sitting at its peak.

===Unicode===
* In [[Unicode]], the "Star of David" symbol ✡ is encoded in U+2721.