Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #da291c
- #ffffff
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white 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 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.
- cross
The national flag of Switzerland displays a white Greek cross in the centre of a red field.
Flag of Switzerland on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1841 (federal); cross used since medieval times
The white cross on red goes back to the battle flags of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
One of only two square national flags (with Vatican City).
Source: Flag of Switzerland 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. Switzerland is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 512 × 512
Credit Unknown Vector graphics: Flag_of_Switzerland.svg: User:Marc Mongenet Credits: User:-xfi- User:Zscout370 derivative work: User:Zscout370 (Return fire)
From Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).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.
