Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
- Wide × tall
- 2.00 : 1
- Code
- AU
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #ffffff
- #e4002b
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
- a canton
A rectangle in the top corner by the pole that is not what the rest of the flag is, and that stops cleanly on both its sides.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
The national flag of Australia is based on the British Blue Ensign—a blue field with the Union Jack in the upper hoist quarter—featuring a large white seven-pointed star (the Commonwealth Star) and a representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of five white stars (one small five-pointed star and four larger seven-pointed stars).
Flag of Australia on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1901; current form 1908
Union Jack, the seven-pointed Commonwealth Star, and the Southern Cross.
Distinguish from New Zealand: six white stars vs. four red ones.
Source: Flag of Australia on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 3 of them, with the sentence that says so.
It flies the same design as
These are the same picture. There is no way to tell them apart by sight, so Flagory only ever asks you about one of them.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Australia or New Zealand?
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Australia is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1280 × 640
Credit Unknown (Vector graphics image by Ian Fieggen) (only minor code changes by uploader.)
From Flag of Australia (converted).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
