United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Wide × tall
- 1.67 : 1
- Code
- GB
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #c8102e
- #ffffff
- #012169
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Nothing the measurement has a word for. It reads eight shapes off a picture: bands, a canton, a wedge at the pole, a disc. This flag is not any of them, so the space is left empty rather than filled with a description nobody took. The finder says what else it cannot see.
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.
- cross
The flag overlays three crosses, each representing a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
Union Jack on Wikipedia
- saltire
Patrick quartered per saltire counter changed argent and gules; the latter fimbriated of the second [viz., argent]; surmounted by the cross of St.
Union Jack on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1801
The Union Jack overlays the crosses of St George (England), St Andrew (Scotland) and St Patrick (Ireland).
Wales isn't represented. It was already united with England in 1801.
Source: Union Jack 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. United Kingdom is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 600
Credit Original: Acts of Union 1800 Vector: Yaddah
From Flag of the United Kingdom.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
