Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #00297b
- #c62139
- #92dbfc
Other flags with red or blue or all of red 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.
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.
- coat of arms
The coat of arms in the center is twenty-four inches tall and sixteen inches wide.
Flag of Guam on Wikipedia
- ship
In the center of the flag is the seal of Guam; almond in shape, it depicts a proa sailing in Hagåtña Bay near Hagåtña, and GUAM in red letters.
Flag of Guam on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The wife of a U.S. naval officer stationed in Guam, Helen L. Paul, designed the flag in 1917 without the red border; the territorial government adopted it on July 4 that year, American Independence day, and it was formally adopted in 1930. Her emblem followed the slingshot stones the Chamorros used for hunting and sport, and set it on blue, so that the flag would resemble those of other US territories and states. The version with the red border was approved in 1948 by military governor Charles Alan Pownall; it commemorates the suffering of the Japanese occupation during World War II.
Drafted from Flag of Guam 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. Guam is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 738 × 396
Credit Xrmap
From Flag of Guam.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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