Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #cf142b
- #ffffff
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 2 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.
- cross
It is the only national flag to feature English-language text ("For Gallantry" on the George Cross).
Flag of Malta on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1964
White and red attributed to the Knights of Malta, with the George Cross awarded to the island for WWII bravery.
Source: Flag of Malta on Wikipedia.
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. Malta is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of Malta.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
