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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 ...
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. The color of text is almost entirely ignored.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
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.
The Anarchist black flag has been an anarchist symbol since the 1880s. Anarchists use either a plain black flag or a black flag with an "A" and an "O" around it, this symbol is a reference to a Proudhon quote "Anarchy is Order Without Power". [2] Since the Spanish Revolution of 1936, the diagonal red-and-black flag became more widely used.
Black American Heritage Flag; BAHF: Use: Ethnic Flag: Proportion: 2:3 or 3:5: Adopted: March 5, 1967 ; 57 years ago: Design: One diagonal black stripe centered between two red stripes. Superimposed on the black stripe is a blunted sword surrounded by a golden wreath of fig leaves. Designed by: Melvin Charles, Gleason T. Jackson
Saint Kitts and Nevis; Use: National flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: 19 September 1983; 41 years ago (): Design: A yellow-edged black diagonal band bearing two white five-pointed stars divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner: the upper triangle is green and the lower triangle is red.
Consequently, the flag designs of the two states were amalgamated to establish a new national flag. [3] [5] The green and black colours from the flag of Tanganyika were retained along with the blue from Zanzibar's flag, [4] with a diagonal design used "for distinctiveness". [3] This combined design was adopted on 30 June 1964. [4]