Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #fff200
- #ffffff
Other flags with white or yellow or all of white and yellow at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 2 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.
- key
The flag of Vatican City, also referred to as the flag of the Holy See, consists of vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half charged with the emblem of the Holy See (a papal tiara and the crossed keys of Saint Peter).
Flag of Vatican City on Wikipedia
- crown
The flag of Vatican City, also referred to as the flag of the Holy See, consists of vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half charged with the emblem of the Holy See (a papal tiara and the crossed keys of Saint Peter).
Flag of Vatican City on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The state flag of the soon to be independent Vatican City was to be the merchant flag of 1825–1870, papal authorities decided after the signing of the Lateran Treaty in 1929; the treaty came into effect on 7 June that year. That merchant flag replaced a white one on 17 September 1825, which took its colours from the materials of the two keys, gold and silver, and was the first bicolour used by the Papal States. Along with Switzerland's, it is one of only two national flags at a 1:1 aspect ratio.
Drafted from Flag of Vatican City 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 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. Vatican City is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 1000
Credit Goran_tek-en
From Flag of Vatican City (2023–present).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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