Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #005293
- #fecb00
Other flags with blue or yellow or all of blue and yellow at once.
How it is put together
Nothing the measurement has a word for. It reads eight shapes off a picture: bands, a canton, a wedge at the pole, a disc. This flag is not any of them, so the space is left empty rather than filled with a description nobody took. The finder says what else it cannot see.
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
The national flag of Sweden (Sveriges flagga) consists of a yellow or gold Nordic cross (i.e. a horizontal cross extending to the edges, with the crossbar closer to the hoist than the fly) on a field of light blue.
Flag of Sweden on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1906; design centuries older
A gold cross on blue from the national coat of arms, in the Nordic cross layout borrowed from Denmark.
Source: Flag of Sweden on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 6 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.
Nordic Crosses
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Sweden is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1600 × 1000
Credit Jon Harald Søby and others.
From Flag of Sweden.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
