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Royal flag (Dutch: koninklijke vlag), or the royal standard, of the kingdom's monarch: A square orange flag, divided in four quarters by a nassau-blue cross with the small coat of arms of the Kingdom, surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of William.
The off-centred blue cross is based on the Nordic Cross, widely used on Nordic national flags. The blue colour is symbolic of blue skies, and the thousands of lakes in Finland. The white represents the winter snows. 1794–1814 1830– Flag of France See also: List of French flags: It was officially adopted on 15 February 1794.
In 1908, Eurico de Góes proposed going back to the imperial flag, but without a shield or crown, and instead a white star. [14] He later in 1922, proposed a similar flag but without the white star, or the globe, and the red cross and light blue circle being expanded and centered on the yellow rhombus. [citation needed]
A green flag bearing a blue Nordic cross fimbriated in white 1969 on: Flag of Shetland [31] [32] A white Nordic cross on a light blue field 2020 on: Flag of the Isle of Skye [31] [32] A yellow Hebridean Birlinn in upper hoist above a yellow Nordic Cross on a sky blue field interlaced with a white ring. 2009 on: Flag of the Isle of Wight [31]
A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 3:2). 1976–2020: An interchangeable lighter version of the national flag of the French Fifth Republic from 1976. [2] This version was abandoned by President Emmanuel Macron in July 2021 in favor of the version with darker shades. [3] [4] [5]
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
[23] Joan's standard led to the prominent use of white on later French flags. [23] From the accession of the Bourbons to the throne of France, the green ensign of the navy became a plain white flag, the symbol of purity and royal authority. The merchant navy was assigned "the old flag of the nation of France", the white cross on a blue field. [24]
The orange encircling the shield, along with its light blue field, allude to the colours of the Dutch monarchy. [7] The shield depicts a garland of yellow sage – the official flower of the territory – as well as the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten in Philipsburg and (top right) the Dutch–French friendship monument delineating the ...