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A Finnish speciality is that any yachting club that is registered in Finland may apply to have a flag with the club emblem officially approved for use on yachts: the civil ensign with a white cross 3 ⁄ 5 of a unit wide superimposed on the blue cross and with the club emblem in the upper hoist corner. Most yachting clubs distribute those ...
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. Flags emblazoned with seals , coats of arms , and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.
UK Blue Ensign; Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom; UK Red Ensign; Royal Standard of the United Kingdom (except Scotland) Flag of the United Nations; Flag of the United States; Flag of the United States Air Force; Flag of the United States Army; Flag of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (1903–1940) Flag of the United States Bureau of ...
Greece's national flag between 1822 and 1970 featured a simple white cross on a blue background. It is not known why this version was adopted, and not a blue cross on a white background as was popular in the War of Independence. During the dictatorship, a navy blue version of the current flag with proportions of 7:12 was used. 1844–1922
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have showcased quite a bit of the red, white and blue colors that many of the national flags have.
On 15 March 1822, the Provisional Government, by Decree Nr. 540, laid down the exact pattern: white cross on blue (plain) for the land flag; nine alternate-coloured stripes with the white cross on a blue field in the canton for the naval ensign; and blue with a blue cross on a white field in the canton for the civil ensign (merchant flag).
Columbia adopted its current flag in 2020, a wash of white and different shades of blue alluding to the city’s unique positioning at the confluence of three rivers. It was picked as part of a ...