The flag of the Russian Federation is a rectangular cloth of three equal horizontal stripes: upper - white, middle - blue and lower - red.
Another example is the flag of France, which features three vertical stripes of blue, white, and red.
Slovenia, Russia, and Slovakia
The two flags most closely resembling the Russian standard are those of Slovakia and Slovenia, which differ mainly in being longer than the Russian flag and incorporating their respective country's coat of arms into the flag design.
It's quite common that 28 countries around the globe have such a combination. But there are specific reasons why countries designed its flags using that trio of colors.
At the disintegration of the USSR on 25 December 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from Kremlin and then replaced by the tricolour flag. The modern era flag underwent a proportion change from 1:2 to 2:3 in 1993 and has been most recently provided for by a 2000 law.
national flag consisting of a red field with a crossed gold hammer and sickle in the upper hoist corner and beneath a gold-bordered red star. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.
The modern flag of Russia is a tricolor flag consisting of three horizontal fields: the top is white, the middle is blue, and the bottom is red. Initially, the flag was used only for Russian merchant ships but in 1696 it became the official flag of the Tsardom of Russia until the year 1922.
Central Africa
The Central African Republic uses five colors in their flag: blue, white, green, yellow, and red.
It consists of three equal size, horizontal stripes in colours red, white and blue. In the middle is the coat of arms of Croatia. A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue with the coat of arms of Croatia in the centre.
The Flag of Indonesia
Since 1950, Indonesia has flown its national flag. Its design is a very simple bicolor with two equal horizontal stripes featuring red on top and white on the bottom.
Why do New Zealand and Australia use a similar pattern of stars on their flags? Both Australia and New Zealand chose the Southern Cross constellation for their flags. The stars on the Australian Flag are white and have more points than the New Zealand Flag to show their brightness in the sky.
The flag is similar to that of the Austrian state of Lower Austria, the German city of Chemnitz, historical Kingdom of Dalmatia (now Croatia) and the Hungarian city of Pécs, but all of those flags have a darker shade of blue.
The design and symbolism of the flag of the Soviet Union all emerged during the Russian Revolution. The flag is also an international symbol of the communist movement as a whole.
Two national flags (Indonesia and Monaco) have the red stripe above the white one. In Poland, many flags based on the national design also feature the national colours. It is one of five flags that use the 5:8 ratio. The other four flags include those of Argentina, Guatemala, Palau, and Sweden.
The Yugoslavia flag was adopted in 1918 and remained the country's flag until its breakup in 1992. The flag has a horizontal tricolour of blue, white and red, with a red five-pointed star outlined in yellow in the centre.
The flag of the Republic of Hungary is a tricolour consisting of horizontal red, white and green bands of equal width. The three colours represent three virtues: red is for strength, white is for faithfulness and green is for hope.
There is no flag in the world that is unicolor. Unicolor means that there is only one colour used, and there are no letters or any symbol displayed on the flag. However, until 2011, the Libyan flag was plain green!
Purple is one of the least used colours in vexillology and heraldry. Currently, the colour appears in only four national flags: that of Dominica, El Salvador, Spain, and Nicaragua, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia).
Only Two National Flags Use the Color Purple
In fact, only two countries, Dominica and Nicaragua, have purple in their flag. This is because purple dye was very expensive in the past. Purple dye was made from collecting the mucus from thousands of sea snails.
This decision is a stance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is supported by the international governing bodies of tennis, including the grand slams, ATP and WTA Tours, and ITF.
horizontally striped blue-black-white national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 7 to 11. The Estonian students' association Vironia was founded on September 29, 1881, when the country was part of the Russian Empire.
According to custom and tradition, white signifies purity and innocence; red, hardiness and valor; and blue signifies vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
The flag's design and symbolism are derived from several sources, but emerged during the Russian Revolution. The flag is also an international symbol of the communist movement as a whole. A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton.
The flag of the Soviet Union incorporated a yellow-outlined red star and a yellow hammer and sickle on red. The flags of Transnistria, Vietnam, China, North Korea, Angola, and Mozambique would all incorporate similar symbolism under communist rule.
The national flag of the People's Republic of China is red in color, rectangular in shape, with five stars. The proportion between the length and height of the flag is three to two. The five five-pointed yellow stars are located in the upper left corner.