Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #db171b
- #ffffff
- #028002
Other flags with red, white or green or all of red, white and green 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 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.
- sword
The national flag of Oman (Arabic: علم عُمان) consists of two horizontal stripes of upper white and lower green, separated by a red horizontal "T" shape in the centre that contains the national emblem of Oman (crossed swords over a khanjar, a traditional curved dagger).
Flag of Oman on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Oman flew a plain red banner until 1970; after Sultan Qaboos bin Said overthrew his father that year, white and green bands were added to the fly and the Al Bu Said dynasty's badge went in the canton. White is associated historically with the Imam, Oman's religious leader, and green with the Jebel Akhdar, the Green Mountains toward the north of the country. The proportions have moved twice since: from 3:4 to 1:2 on 25 April 1995, and to 4:7 on 22 May 2004.
Drafted from Flag of Oman on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-09-04, 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 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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Oman is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- OGL-om 1.0
- Drawn at
- 512 × 293
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of Oman.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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