A Guide To Blue, Red & White Flags

Today we have a fascinating guide created by the Facebook page called Civixplorer that shows a selection of current flags from around the world that predominantly use the colours blue, red and white. Check out this design to learn about flags that feature blue, red and white including the flags for 19 different countries and 1 archipelago.

 

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And here we have some high quality pictures of the blue, red and white flags in the guide along with a little bit of information about them from Wikipedia for you to read with links to where you can find more.

 

Flag of the United States

 

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The American flag consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars. (More info)

 

The Union Jack

 

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The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George, edged in white, superimposed on the red saltire of Saint Patrick, also edged in white, superimposed on the saltire of Saint Andrew. (More info)

 

Flag of France

 

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The national flag of France is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. The design was adopted after the French Revolution, whose revolutionaries were influenced by the flag of the Netherlands. (More info)

 

Flag of Russia

 

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The national flag of the Russian Federation is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The design was first introduced by Tsar Peter the Great in 1693. (More info)

 

Flag of Iceland

 

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The civil national flag of Icelanders is blue as the sky with a snow-white cross, and a fiery-red cross inside the white cross. The flag was adopted on the 17th of June 1944. (More info)

 

Flag of Norway

 

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The national flag of Norway is red with a navy blue Scandinavian cross bordered in white that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the flag of Denmark. (More info)

 

Flag of the Netherlands

 

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The national flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The flag was adopted 450 years ago in 1575. (More info)

 

Flag of Luxembourg

 

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The national flag of Luxembourg consists of three horizontal stripes, watermelon red, white and light blue and can be in 1:2 or 3:5 ratio. It was first used between 1845 and 1848 and officially adopted in 1993. (More info)

 

Flag of Costa Rica

 

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The national flag of Costa Rica is based on a design created in 1848 and consists of two blue stripes, two white stripes and a central red stripe which is twice as wide as each of the other four. (More info)

 

Flag of Thailand

 

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The flag of Thailand shows five horizontal stripes in the colours red, white, blue, white and red, with the central blue stripe being twice as wide as each of the other four. The design was adopted on 28 September 1917. (More info)

 

Flag of Slovenia

 

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The national flag of Slovenia features three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue and red, with the coat of arms of Slovenia located in the upper hoist side of the flag centred in the white and blue bands. (More info)

 

Flag of Slovakia

 

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The current form of the national flag of the Slovak Republic was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on 3 September 1992. The flag, like many other flags of Slavic nations, uses Pan-Slavic colours (red, white, and blue). (More info)

 

Flag of Australia

 

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The national flag of Australia is based on the British Blue Ensign - a blue field with the Union Jack in the upper hoist quarter - augmented with a large white seven-pointed star (the Commonwealth Star) and a representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of five white stars. (More info)

 

Flag of New Zealand

 

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The flag of New Zealand is based on the British maritime Blue Ensign - a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton or upper hoist corner – augmented or defaced with four red stars centred within four white stars, representing the Southern Cross constellation. (More info)

 

Flag of Croatia

 

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The national flag of the Republic of Croatia, also known in Croatian as the Tricolor (Trobojnica), is one of the state symbols of Croatia. It consists of three equal size, horizontal stripes in colours red, white and blue anchored by the coat of arms of Croatia. (More info)

 

Flag of Serbia

 

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The flag of Serbia, also known as the Tricolour, is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands, red on the top, blue in the middle, and white on the bottom (on civil flag), with the lesser coat of arms left of centre (on state flag). (More info)

 

Flag of the Czech Republic

 

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The flag of the Czech Republic is the same as the flag of the former Czechoslovakia. Upon the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in December 1992, the Czech Republic kept the Czechoslovak flag while Slovakia adopted its own flag. (More info)

 

Flag of the Philippines

 

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The national flag of the Philippines is a horizontal bicolour flag with equal bands of royal blue and crimson red, with a white, equilateral chevron at the hoist. In the centre of the triangle is a golden-yellow sun with eight primary rays. (More info)

 

Flag of Cuba

 

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The national flag of Cuba consists of five alternating stripes (three navy blue and two white) and a cherry red chevron at the hoist, within which is a white five-pointed star. It was designed in 1849 and officially adopted May 20, 1902. (More info)

 

Flag of Puerto Rico

 

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The flag of Puerto Rico consists of five equal horizontal stripes, alternating from red to white, with a blue equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bearing a large, sharp, upright, five-pointed white star in the centre. (More info)