Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ed1c24
- #006035
Other flags with red or green or all of red 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.
- 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.
- coat of arms
The version without laurels of the country’s national coat of arms stands in the middle of the Portuguese armillary sphere and shield, centered over the colour boundary at equal distance.
Flag of Portugal on Wikipedia
- shield
The sphere and shield in the middle of the current flag are an integral part of the design, which has historically been centred on the royal arms, usually over fields of blue and white.
Flag of Portugal on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1911
Green for hope, red for the blood of the 1910 revolution, with the armillary sphere of the Age of Discovery.
Source: Flag of Portugal on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 3 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. Portugal is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Original: Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro Vector: Vítor Luís Rodrigues, António Martins-Tuválkin
From Flag of Portugal (official).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
