Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #005430
Other flags with green.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
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.
- writing
The national flag of Saudi Arabia is a green background with Arabic inscription and a sword in white.
Flag of Saudi Arabia on Wikipedia
- sword
The national flag of Saudi Arabia is a green background with Arabic inscription and a sword in white.
Flag of Saudi Arabia on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1973
The green of Islam bearing the shahada (declaration of faith) above a sword.
Never flown at half-mast, because it carries the shahada.
Source: Flag of Saudi Arabia on Wikipedia.
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. Saudi Arabia is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit The Shura Council
From Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
