Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #4997d0
- #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.
- 3 vertical bands
The foot changes colour going along, the fly edge does not, and every change is a straight line top to bottom.
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
In the center of the flag is the Guatemalan coat of arms.
Flag of Guatemala on Wikipedia
- bird
It includes the resplendent quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala that symbolizes liberty; a parchment scroll bearing the date of Central America's independence from Spain, 15 September 1821; crossed Remington Rolling Block rifles, indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be; a bay laurel crown, the symbol for victory; and crossed swords, representing honor.
Flag of Guatemala on Wikipedia
- book
It includes the resplendent quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala that symbolizes liberty; a parchment scroll bearing the date of Central America's independence from Spain, 15 September 1821; crossed Remington Rolling Block rifles, indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be; a bay laurel crown, the symbol for victory; and crossed swords, representing honor.
Flag of Guatemala on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The flag of the Federal Republic of Central America was flown here until 1851, when a pro-Spanish faction added the Spanish colours to it; the original colours came back on 17 August 1871, restored as vertical rather than horizontal stripes so that the flag could be told apart from others, and with a new coat of arms. That coat of arms carries the resplendent quetzal, a parchment scroll bearing the date 15 September 1821, crossed Remington Rolling Block rifles, a bay laurel crown and crossed swords, one of only four flags among UN member states to show a firearm.
Drafted from Flag of Guatemala 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. Guatemala is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 960 × 600
Credit K21edgo
From Flag of Guatemala.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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