Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffffff
- #002f6c
Other flags with white or blue or all of 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 national flag of Finland, also known in Finnish as the siniristilippu ('Blue Cross Flag'), dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
Flag of Finland on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1918
A blue Nordic cross for the thousand lakes, on white for the snow.
Source: Flag of Finland on Wikipedia.
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.
Nordic Crosses
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Finland is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1800 × 1100
Credit Unknown
From Flag of Finland.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
