In the past few days we found new readers from Iceland and Finland. This increases the country count to 46. Very Exciting! Must be the Sturgis reporting!!
The flag of Iceland was officially described in Law No. 34 when it became a country on 17 June 1944. The description is pretty, well, precise! "The civil national flag of Icelanders is blue as the sky with a snow-white cross, and a fiery-red cross inside a white cross. The arms of the cross extend to the edge of the flag, and their combined width is 2/9, but the red cross 1/9 of the combined width of the flag. The blue areas are right angled rectangles, the rectilinear surfaces are parallel and the outer rectilinear surfaces as wide as them, but twice the length. The dimensions between the width and length are 18:25." Wow! I have visited there and actually dived the frigid waters and of course, Silfra!
The flag of Finland has several variants with an interesting history. For the blog, according to Finnish law the ratio of the flag is 11:18 [height:width]. The cusp width of the blue cross is three units of measure, giving a ratio of 4:3:4 [vertical] and 5:3:10 [horizontal]. Interestingly, when flown from a flagpole, the flag is recommened to have a width equaling one sixth the height of the pole.
Be all that as it may, welcome dear readers from Iceland and Finland!!
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