Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #ffffff
- #c8102e
- #2a7fff
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 we know about it
The islands were given a flag of their own in 1876: a Blue Ensign carrying the seal of the islands, which showed HMS Hebe in Falkland Sound overlooked by a bullock. A new coat-of-arms was introduced on 16 October 1925, with a sea lion and the Desire (the ship of John Davis, reputed to have discovered the islands in 1592) under the motto Desire the Right; on 29 September 1948 the flag was updated to include it, superimposed upon a white disc. The arms were then enlarged and the white disc removed, and the current flag was adopted on 25 January 1999.
Drafted from Flag of the Falkland Islands 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 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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Falkland Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Original: Government of the United Kingdom Vector: Nightstallion and Echando una mano
From Flag of the Falkland Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
