Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffffff
- #d67900
Other flags with white or orange or all of white and orange at once.
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.
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.
- leaf
The national flag features the shape of the map, with two olive branches below (a symbol of peace between the island's two communities) on white (another symbol of peace).
Flag of Cyprus on Wikipedia
- globe or map
The map on the flag is a copper-orange colour, symbolising the large deposits of copper ore on the island, from which it may have received its name.
Flag of Cyprus on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1960
The island in copper ('Cyprus' shares its root with the metal) above two olive branches of peace between Greeks and Turks.
Source: Flag of Cyprus 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. Cyprus is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 800
Credit İsmet Güney, SVG by User:Vzb83~commonswiki
From Flag of Cyprus.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
