Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffffff
- #012169
- #c8102e
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Nothing the measurement has a word for. It reads eight shapes off a picture: bands, a canton, a wedge at the pole, a disc. This flag is not any of them, so the space is left empty rather than filled with a description nobody took. The finder says what else it cannot see.
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.
- tree
The flag also depicts a palm tree rising above the Tudor Crown.
Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory on Wikipedia
- crown
The flag also depicts a palm tree rising above the Tudor Crown.
Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The territory dates from 8 November 1965, when the Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches islands were amalgamated with the Chagos Archipelago; Queen Elizabeth II granted the flag on the 25th anniversary of that creation, in 1990. It is the flag of the commissioner, based at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London, and has only semi-official status as a territorial flag. Originally the crown on it was depicted as St Edward's Crown; the Tudor Crown preferred by King Charles III formally replaced it in October 2025.
Drafted from Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. British Indian Ocean Territory is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 600 × 300
Credit Unknown author Unknown author
From Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory 2025.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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