Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #da251d
- #ffff00
Other flags with red or yellow or all of red and yellow 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.
- star
The golden star symbolizes the soul of the nation and the five points of the star represents the five main classes in Vietnamese society—intellectuals, farmers, workers, entrepreneurs, and soldiers.
Flag of Vietnam on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1945; nationwide 1976
A gold star for the five working classes united on revolutionary red.
Source: Flag of Vietnam on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 7 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. Vietnam is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of Vietnam.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
