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The various blue, white, and red striped banners were adopted, somewhat changing the order and position of stripes (vertical and horizontal). The Russian flag was adopted by Peter the Great on the basis of the Dutch flag, during his effort to build a Western-oriented navy.
The flag of Serbia consists of three horizontal bands of red, blue and white, with the coat-of-arms located left of centre. By accident or design the colours are that of the Russian flag reversed. A flag with three horizontal bands of red, blue and white has been used as the national flag of Serbia and Serbs since 1815.
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. ...
Flag Date Use Description 1839–present Flag of the Netherlands: A horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue. 1976–present Flag of Aruba: A medium blue field with a white fimbriated (bordered) red four-pointed star in its upper hoist corner and two narrow horizontal yellow stripes in its lower half.
The bald eagle and the blue, white and red colors symbolize the country's ties to the United States. The eagle holds a staff and a war club, two traditional symbols of the Samoan chiefs. [2] According to the flag's designer, Uinifareti Rapi Sotoa, the white section represents the Manuʻa District.
Notably, the Union Jack features in many territorial and sub-national flags usually based on the Red Ensign (e.g., Bermuda) or Blue Ensign (e.g., New South Wales). The British Ensign in a few cases have backgrounds of other colours (e.g. British Antarctic Territory and Niue ) or a unique pattern in the field (e.g. British Indian Ocean Territory ...
A white field with a dark blue U.S. Great Seal. The shield on the eagle's breast has a blue chief over vertical red and white stripes. Inscribed in an arc above the eagle is "UNITED STATES COAST GUARD"; below the eagle is "SEMPER PARATUS" and beneath that are the Arabic numerals "1790". Designed by: United States Coast Guard
The red-white-blue tricolour has been used as the Croatian flag since 1848, and the pan-Slavic colours are widely associated with romantic nationalism. While the Banovina of Croatia existed within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it had a similar flag without the modern crown above the chequy. After the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded and Croatia ...