Flag of Canada
The flag of Canada, adopted in 1965 and flown in a 1:2 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
Colours of the flag of Canada
The flag of Canada uses 2 colours: red, white. The swatches below are sampled from the flag artwork itself, so they are the exact values used in the file rather than an approximation.
Flags often confused with Canada
Canada is genuinely easy to mix up with 1 other flags. Compare them side by side here — the difference is usually a ratio, a shade, or the order of two bands.
About the flag of Canada
The flag of Canada — officially Canada — is flown in a 1:2 ratio. Canada sits in North America, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1965. Canada has its capital at Ottawa and a population of about 41.7 million, figures that come from the same dataset the quizzes are built on.
As an emoji the flag is 🇨🇦, produced from the regional indicator letters for CA. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Canada
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