Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffffff
- #da000c
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 2 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
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.
- coat of arms
The flag of Gibraltar is an elongated banner of arms based on the coat of arms of Gibraltar, granted by Royal Warrant from Queen Isabella I of Castile on 10 July 1502.
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
- shield
"An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured".
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
- building
"An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured".
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
- key
"An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured".
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
- chainthe only one here
"An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured".
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
What we know about it
It is an elongated banner of arms; Queen Isabella I of Castile granted the arms themselves to Gibraltar, by Royal Warrant, on 10 July 1502, and it was regularised in 1982. Among the British Overseas Territories it is unique: no other has a flag without the Union Jack in some form, although the Union Jack is widely flown as a standalone flag within the colony. No castle in Gibraltar resembles the one on it, which is supposed to represent the fortress; the key is said to symbolise its significance, the Moors and Spanish having seen Gibraltar as the key to Spain, and the British later as the key to the Mediterranean.
Drafted from Flag of Gibraltar 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 day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one 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. Gibraltar is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 500
Credit Created on behalf of Isabella I of Castile in 1502; this version uploaded by Denelson83 (talk · contribs)
From Flag of Gibraltar.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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