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Description of the Hawaiian flag. The official description of the Hawaiian flag as authorized to represent the State of Hawaii on land and sea, and authorized for executive state agencies, second to the stars and stripes of the United States shall be:
Today, the current State of Hawaii flag (with variations) was adopted in 1896 and officially adopted in 1945. Inverted national flags signify distress. The inverted Hawaiian flag has come to symbolize a nation in distress and is the main symbol of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
I'm also not counting what the flag stands for (such as Turkey's flag) as long as it's been in continuous use. The FotW's Adoption Dates of Flags is a good reference for this, but they list the date the flag was last changed, rather than when it was first used. Even by this standard, Hawaii's flag dates from 1843, and is still older than most:
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The Flag of Hawaii, or Hawaii Flag, is the official flag of the U.S. state of Hawaii, consisting of a field of eight horizontal stripes, in the sequence white, red, blue, white, red, blue, white, red with a Union Flag in the upper-left corner, or canton.