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Greece Flag
Greece's national flag combines a blue canton with a white cross and nine alternating blue and white horizontal stripes. The combination creates a busy...
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About Greece and its flag
Greece's national flag combines a blue canton with a white cross and nine alternating blue and white horizontal stripes. The combination creates a busy but highly structured design that is distinct among European flags. It is used as the unified national flag on land and at sea.
Flag design and meaning
The flag has nine equal horizontal stripes alternating blue and white. In the upper hoist corner, a blue canton contains a white cross. The repeated striped field and the cross-bearing canton must appear together for the standard Greek national flag design.
- Striped field and cross-bearing canton: Together, the nine stripes and the blue canton with its white cross form the national arrangement described in official Greek material.
History and adoption
Greece used related flags for merchant and naval purposes during its early national period. In 1828, official material records a merger of merchant and naval designs. It also records later changes with changes of regime, so this entry does not treat 1828 as a single adoption date for the present flag.
How to recognise this flag
- Count the narrow horizontal stripes and then check for the white cross in the blue upper-left canton.
- Do not confuse Greece with a simple blue-and-white cross flag: the striped field is essential.
Greece flag quiz context
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