Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #006847
- #ce1126
- #ffffff
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 vertical bands
The foot changes colour going along, the fly edge does not, and every change is a straight line top to bottom.
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 national flag of Mexico (Spanish: bandera nacional de México) is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red with the national coat of arms charged in the center of the white stripe.
Flag of Mexico on Wikipedia
- bird
It recalls the legend of a golden eagle sitting on a nopal cactus while devouring a serpent that signaled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan.
Flag of Mexico on Wikipedia
- eagle
It recalls the legend of a golden eagle sitting on a nopal cactus while devouring a serpent that signaled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan.
Flag of Mexico on Wikipedia
- other animal
It recalls the legend of a golden eagle sitting on a nopal cactus while devouring a serpent that signaled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan.
Flag of Mexico on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1821; current arms 1968
Green, white and red of independence, centered on the Aztec omen: an eagle on a cactus devouring a serpent.
Source: Flag of Mexico 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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Mexico is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 980 × 560
Credit Alex Covarrubias, 9 April 2006. Based on the arms by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán.
From Flag of Mexico.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
