Sweden Flag

How to identify it

A yellow cross on a mid-blue field, no outline. Compared with Finland the cross is thinner and the field is much darker.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

The blue and yellow cross is documented from the sixteenth century and was restated in the Flag Act of 1906.

History of the design

The civil flag uses a 5:8 proportion. Its colours derive from Sweden’s national arms rather than a modern symbolic code.

Similar flags

Compare the details that separate these designs.

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  Finland

  Finland uses a blue cross on white; Sweden uses a yellow cross on blue.

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