Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #002a8f
- #ffffff
- #cb1515
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.
- 5 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
- a triangle at the pole
A wedge whose base is the whole pole edge, widest halfway down, in a colour the fly side is not painted in.
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 Cuba, also known as the Flag of the Lone Star (Spanish: Bandera de la Estrella Solitaria), 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.
Flag of Cuba on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Designed in 1849 by the poet Miguel Teurbe Tolón alongside López, the flag was first hoisted by Cuban rebels who took the coastal town of Cárdenas on May 19, 1850, and officially adopted on May 20, 1902. The three blue stripes stand for the three departments Cuba was divided into at the time, the white for the purity of the patriot cause, and the red triangle for strength and constancy. It has remained unchanged since a decree of 1906 fixed its specifications.
Drafted from Flag of Cuba 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.
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.
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. Cuba is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Miguel Teurbe Tolón and Narciso López
From Flag of Cuba.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
