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Flag of Denmark

Denmark

Kingdom of Denmark

Wide × tall
1.32 : 1
Code
DK

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Colours

Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.

  • #c8102e
  • #ffffff

Other flags with red or white or all of red and white 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.

  • cross

    The flag is red with a white Nordic cross, which means that the cross extends to the edges of the flag and that the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side.

    Dannebrog on Wikipedia

What we know about it

Adopted In use since the 14th century

The Dannebrog. Legend says it fell from the sky at the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219; the oldest continuously used national flag.

Source: Flag of Denmark on Wikipedia.

Its days

The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 2 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.

Nordic Crosses

Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.

Quiz yourself

Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Denmark is one of the flags in each of these.

The picture

Drawn at
512 × 387

Credit Madden and others

From Flag of Denmark.svg on Wikimedia Commons.

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