Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #0d5eaf
- #ffffff
Other flags with white or blue or all of 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.
- 9 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
- 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.
- cross
There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolises Christianity.
Flag of Greece on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1822; sole national flag since 1978
Nine stripes for the syllables of 'Eleftheria i Thanatos' (Freedom or Death); the cross for Greek Orthodoxy.
Source: Flag of Greece 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. Greece is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 600 × 400
Credit Unknown author Unknown author
From Flag of Greece.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
