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  2. Flag of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Four stripes of white, horizontal, diagonal, and vertical on a blue field, with a red cross in the middle. The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, [ 1][ 2] Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of the Kingdom of Great ...

  3. Flag of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. A white-fimbriated symmetric red cross on a blue field with a white-fimbriated counterchanged saltire of red and white. The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, also known as the Union Flag. [ a] The design of the Union Jack dates back to the Act of Union 1801, which united ...

  4. List of United Kingdom flags - Wikipedia

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    A blue ensign with the arms of Alderney . A red cross on a white field ( St George's Cross ). A golden cross within a red cross on a white field ( St George's Cross ). Guernsey is an autonomous Crown Dependency and is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

  5. Regional indicator symbol - Wikipedia

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    Regional indicator symbol. The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment. These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding ...

  6. Flag of England - Wikipedia

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    The flag of England is the national flag of England, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It is derived from Saint George's Cross (heraldic blazon : Argent, a cross gules ). The association of the red cross as an emblem of England can be traced back to the Late Middle Ages when it was gradually, increasingly, used alongside the Royal ...

  7. List of English flags - Wikipedia

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    Northern Irish flags. Scottish flags. Welsh flags. Cornish flags. Royal Standards. City, town and village flags. Former British Empire. This is a list of English flags, including symbolic national and sub-national flags, standards and banners used exclusively in England . The College of Arms is the authority on the flying of flags in England ...

  8. Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas ...

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    Numerous white and red stripes with the Union Jack of Great Britain in the canton. Accepted to be one of the inspirations for the Grand Union Flag that eventually evolved into the current flag of the United States. 1801–1858: Flag of the British East India Company: Numerous white and red stripes with the Union Jack of the United Kingdom in ...

  9. File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the United Kingdom.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 400 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 160 pixels | 640 × 320 pixels | 1,024 × 512 pixels | 1,280 × 640 pixels | 2,560 × 1,280 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 1,200 × 600 pixels, file size: 672 bytes) This is a local copy of an image on Commons ...