French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Region
- Wide × tall
- 1.50 : 1
- Code
- TF
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #214d9b
- #ffffff
- #eb2e2e
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue 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.
- a canton
A rectangle in the top corner by the pole that is not what the rest of the flag is, and that stops cleanly on both its sides.
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.
- star
The monogram is surrounded by five white stars.
Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The lands became an overseas territory of France in 1955, and the first senior administrator, Xavier Richert, introduced a flag for his office in 1958, nearly identical to this one but with three stars instead of five, which may have been a reference to his rank of Vice admiral, represented by three stars in the French Navy. The official flag was adopted on 23 February 2007. The monogram, stylized to resemble an anchor, is surrounded by five stars; one for each of the five regions of the territory, it is sometimes thought, though the decree adopting the flag did not say so.
Drafted from Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands 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 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. French Southern and Antarctic Lands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 450 × 300
Credit Académie de Grenoble
From Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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