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No. 187 / 195Flag of United States of America
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Continent
North America
Flag adopted
1960[1]
Designer
Not individually credited

United States of America

What the source says

Checked against the constituting document
The flag of the United States shall have thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white, and a union consisting of white stars on a field of blue. [...] The flag prescribed by Executive Order No. 10798 of January 3, 1959, shall be the official flag of the United States until July 4, 1960, and on that date the flag prescribed by Part I of this order shall become the official flag of the United States.
[1] Executive Order 10834 of 21 August 1959, sections 1 and 31 (National Archives, Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders), read on 2026-07-17. Backs the adoption year, which colors the flag has and the description of the design on this page.

Checked means compared against the quoted text, not read by a person. What the marks mean.

Colors and meaning

  • Red[1] #B31942

    Valor and hardiness, per widely cited (if informally adopted) tradition

  • White[1] #FFFFFF

    Purity and innocence

  • Blue[1] #0A3161

    Vigilance, perseverance and justice

What the law specifies[1]

The executive order prescribes thirteen horizontal stripes, alternately red and white, and a union of white stars on a field of blue, and fixes the day the fifty-star flag became official: 4 July 1960. It states no meaning for the stripes or the stars.

Symbolism and history

Thirteen alternating red-and-white stripes represent the original thirteen colonies, while fifty white stars on a blue canton represent the fifty current states, the star count last updated in 1960 to add Hawaii.

Most similar flags

The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.

Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.

Sources

Further reading: Flag of the United States on Wikipedia

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