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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 flag takes the form of a horizontal tricolour. The colours used are blue, yellow and black. The colours in the design are derived from the provincial coat of arms. The central element of the coat of arms is a shield carried by two lions. The left half shows a golden lion on a blue shield, while the right half shows the black lion of Jülich ...
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.
A blue flag with a white letter "L" on the hoist side. [29] [30] 2007 on: Flag of Orkney [31] [32] A blue Nordic cross outlined in yellow on a red field. 14 April 2010: Flag of the Isle of Portland (Registered by the Flag Institute) [33] The colours represent the landscape of the area: Portland stone, grass and the sea.
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]
[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 national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue Statenvlag ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch ...
The American flag or Stars and Stripes made a major contribution to the modern flag tradition and the idea of a flag representing both population and government, like the French flag after the Revolution. [2] The various blue, white, and red striped banners were adopted, somewhat changing the order and position of stripes (vertical and horizontal).