Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffbe29
- #8d153a
- #eb7400
- #00534e
Other flags with red, green or orange or all of red, green and orange at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a border
A frame of one colour round the whole edge, with something else inside every corner 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.
- lion
The national flag of Sri Lanka, also called the Singha Flag or Lion Flag (Sinhala: සිංහ කොඩිය, romanised: singha kodiya, Tamil: சிங்கக் கொடி, romanised: ciṅkak koṭi), consists of a golden lion holding a kastane sword in its right fore-paw in a maroon background with four gold bo leaves, one in each corner.
Flag of Sri Lanka on Wikipedia
- leaf
The lion and the maroon background represent the Sinhalese race, while the saffron border and four bo leaves represent the concepts of meththa, karuṇā, muditā and upecka respectively.
Flag of Sri Lanka on Wikipedia
- sword
The national flag of Sri Lanka, also called the Singha Flag or Lion Flag (Sinhala: සිංහ කොඩිය, romanised: singha kodiya, Tamil: சிங்கக் கொடி, romanised: ciṅkak koṭi), consists of a golden lion holding a kastane sword in its right fore-paw in a maroon background with four gold bo leaves, one in each corner.
Flag of Sri Lanka on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1972 (lion flag from the Kingdom of Kandy)
The golden lion with sword and four bo leaves, plus orange and green stripes for the Tamil and Muslim communities.
Source: Flag of Sri Lanka 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. Sri Lanka is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Original: Sri Lanka Vectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht
From Flag of Sri Lanka.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
