Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #ef3340
- #fdda25
Other flags with red, yellow or black or all of red, yellow and black 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 we know about it
Adopted 1831
Black, gold and red come from the arms of Brabant: a gold lion with red claws on black.
Vertical stripes were chosen to differ from the Dutch flag after independence.
Source: Flag of Belgium 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. Belgium is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 780
Credit Dbenbenn and others
From Flag of Belgium.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
