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Adoption of current flag design First use of current flag design Last change to current flag design Denmark: 1625 [1] 1219: 1893 (proportions formalized) Netherlands: 1660 [2] 1574: 1937 (colours formalized) United Kingdom: 1 January 1801: 1801: 1801 (merged with Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) Argentina: 27 February 1812: 1812: 2011 ...
Netherlands: 1581 / 1652 1795 1806 1810 1814 Netherlands: New Zealand: 1769 1834 1840 1867 1869 New Zealand: Nicaragua: 1524 1823 1825 1839 1858 1889 1893 1896 1908 1971 Nicaragua: Niger: 1922 1959 Niger: Nigeria: 1886 1900 1960 Nigeria: 1967 North Macedonia: 1844 1903 1903 1912 1918 1941 1944 1946 1992 1995 North Macedonia: Norway: 1536 1814 ...
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.
Nordic flag designs very similar to Denmark's, Sweden's, and Norway's national flags were proposed as Germany's national flags in both 1919 and 1948, after World War I and World War II, respectively. Today, the Nordic cross is a feature in some city and district flags or coats of arms.
Flag of the Netherlands See also: List of flags of the Netherlands: The flag of the Netherlands was officially adopted on 19 February 1937. At one time this tricolour flag was orange, white, and blue, as those were the livery colours of William of Orange, a Dutch prince. In the 17th century, red replaced the orange as a flag colour, because the ...
These stripes of orange, white, and blue became the first flag of the Netherlands. [16] In the 17th century, the orange was replaced by red. [17] Tsar Peter the Great personally designed a merchant flag of Russia based on the colors of the flag of the Netherlands. [18] The Russian flag, in turn, inspired many flags of countries in the Slavic ...
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 ...
Flag Date Use Description 2025—present: Royal Standard of Denmark [1], used by King Frederik X: Royal flag with the greater coat of arms: 2025—present The Flag of Queen Mary of Denmark