Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #02529c
- #dc1e35
- #ffffff
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, 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 arms of the crosses extend to the edges of the flag and their width is 2⁄9, and the red cross 1⁄9 of the width of the flag.
Flag of Iceland on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1915; republic 1944
Blue for the sky and sea, white for the ice, red for volcanic fire, in a Nordic cross.
Source: Flag of Iceland on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 2 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.
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. Iceland is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1250 × 900
Credit Original: Matthías Þórðarson Vector: Árni Dagur and Magasjukur2
From Flag of Iceland.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
