Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #002868
- #ce1126
- #ffffff
- #fcd116
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 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 the Turks and Caicos Islands features a blue ensign with the Union Flag in the canton, defaced with the coat of arms of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the centre-right.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Wikipedia
- shield
The coat of arms, which was granted on 28 September 1965, takes the shape of a yellow shield which contains a queen conch shell, lobster, and a Melocactus.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Wikipedia
- fish
The coat of arms, which was granted on 28 September 1965, takes the shape of a yellow shield which contains a queen conch shell, lobster, and a Melocactus.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The current flag was adopted on 7 November 1968, and modified in 1999: the shield gained a white outline, and the badge grew to approximately half the hoist width. The coat of arms, granted on 28 September 1965, contains a queen conch shell, lobster, and a Melocactus, the cactus being visually similar to the traditional Turkish fez, which gives the islands the first half of their name. Whether the lobster should have eight or ten legs has been disputed; it is thought to be a Caribbean spiny lobster, which does indeed have ten.
Drafted from Flag of the Turks and Caicos 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 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. Turks and Caicos Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Unknown author Unknown author
From Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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