Southern Europe
Greece
Nine horizontal stripes of blue and white with a white cross on a blue canton. The design emerged during the Greek War of Independence and became the sole national flag in 1978.
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Adopted
1978
Proportion
2:3
Colours
2
Colours & their meaning
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Blue
No official symbolism.
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White
No official symbolism.
Symbols & emblems
Cross
The white cross represents Greek Orthodoxy, the traditional religion of Greece.
Did you know?
A common popular explanation links the nine stripes to the nine syllables of the slogan “Elefthería í Thánatos” (“Freedom or Death”), though this is not an official legal meaning.