🚩 Flag of Iceland

The flag of Iceland is defined in Law No. 34/1944, adopted on 17 June 1944, the day Iceland became a republic. The law, …

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The national flag of Iceland

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The story of this flag

The flag of Iceland is defined in Law No. 34/1944, adopted on 17 June 1944, the day Iceland became a republic. The law, entitled The Law of the National Flag of Icelanders and the State Arms, describes the flag as follows:The civil national flag of Icelanders is sky-blue with a snow-white cross and a fiery-red cross inside the white cross. The arms of the crosses extend to the edges of the flag and their width is 2⁄9, and the red cross 1⁄9 of the width of the flag. The blue sections are rectangles: the hoist sections are equilateral, and the outer sections are the same width as them but twice as long. The ratio between the width and length of the flag is 18:25.

Quoted from Flag of Iceland on English Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 — the article lists the sources it was written from. Summary retrieved 2026-10-29.

Iceland at a glance

Official nameIceland
CapitalReykjavik
ContinentEurope · Northern Europe
Population385,663
Area103,000 km²
LanguagesIcelandic
CurrencyIcelandic króna (ISK)
Internet TLD.is
Calling code+354

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