BEIRUT (AFP) - 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.

Now Lebanon's bid for the title has been displayed at Rayak air base in the east of the country, in the presence of a representative of the "Guinness World Records" book.

The country's green cedar emblem in the flag's centre alone covers an area of 10,452 square metres, the same figure as the country's surface area in square kilometres.

Picture - A handout picture released on the Lebanese Army's official website shows an aerial view taken from a military helicopter of what the army said is the world's largest national flag photographed at the Rayak air base in the eastern Bekaa valley. Having breezed through several world records in the culinary field Lebanon has now gone for the big one -- the world's largest national flag.