Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #007749
- #001489
- #e03c31
- #ffffff
- #000000
- #ffb81c
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 5 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
red ones · white ones · blue ones · green ones · black ones · orange ones
What we know about it
Adopted 1994
Six colors in a sideways Y, two streams converging into one, for the post-apartheid 'rainbow nation'.
Source: Flag of South Africa on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 3 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. South Africa is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Flag design by Frederick Brownell, image by Wikimedia Commons users
From Flag of South Africa.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
