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Greece Flag
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How to identify it
Nine alternating blue and white horizontal stripes, with a white cross inside a blue square at the upper left.
Design and construction
- Adoption and legal status
- The striped sea flag became Greece’s sole national flag in 1978.
History of the design
Before then Greece used it alongside a separate land flag consisting of a white cross on blue.
Sources
References for the design and any additional notes on this page.
- Greece: flag history and construction; Flags of the World (FOTW)