Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #d31624
- #ffffff
- #008c3e
Other flags with red, white or green or all of red, white and green at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 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.
- tree
Centered on the white stripe is a green cedar of Lebanon tree (Cedrus libani), touching both red stripes.
Flag of Lebanon on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1943
The cedar of Lebanon (symbol of holiness and eternity) between red bands of sacrifice.
Source: Flag of Lebanon on Wikipedia.
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. Lebanon is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 2880 × 1920
Credit Henri Pharaon
From Flag of Lebanon.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
