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Flags of the World by Color Usage

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Shahee Ilyas has lots of fun and interesting projects on his site. One I found particularly interesting was a breakdown of all the flag colors in the world and how much each color is used in each flag.
With his permission here they are:

Each sector the pie-chart is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag

Click on an Image to Reveal the Country Flag

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See (Vatican City)
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Islands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe


All Flag Colors Combined

All Flags Colors
Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analyzed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colors on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colors on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colors for all the flags combined. (note: colors making up less than 1% may not appear)

Originaly Created By Shahee Ilyas 2007 | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Special thanks to Ayesh. All original flags are from Wikipedia contributors. Some information is obtained from other public domain sources such as The World Factbook database.

28 May, 2007
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velveteen
velveteen wrote:
28 May, 2007
this is so cool! :D

coxy
coxy wrote:
28 May, 2007
Geeks. I love it.

bijoulove…
28 May, 2007
this looks ver interesting - can't wait to read it after a proper nap - exhausting day in the sunshine!

retsof
retsof wrote:
28 May, 2007
Awww. They're in alphabetical order. I may get to see USA tomorrow.

bijoulove…
29 May, 2007
great article :)

the clickable icons are a nice touch! - like a whole set of flashcards to test our knowledge of world flags

bijoulove…
29 May, 2007
where are all these random comments coming from?

COLOURlov…
29 May, 2007
Those are linkbacks from other blogs that are linking to this post on COLOURlovers. You can click the bold part to view the blog entry that is mentioning this post.

bijoulove…
29 May, 2007
ah, sorry, just saw some random excerpt about harry potter master and slave and thought it was a spammer... :o

COLOURlov…
29 May, 2007
Oh... well actually that one was spam... and is now off to spamland.

despise
despise wrote:
29 May, 2007
this would have come in handy for me the other day! at my friends college graduation there were flags from quite a few countries lining the hill they walked down and my friends brother and I were trying to name them all. See I knew colourlovers would come in handy for something other than just strictly colors. thanks for making this!

maccise
maccise wrote:
29 May, 2007
Nice!

koavf
koavf wrote:
30 May, 2007
Why isn't Western Sahara on here?

greenie
greenie wrote:
1 Jun, 2007
pretty awesome.


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