Red, white and blue flags
44 flags are made of exactly red, white and blue, with no other colour measured on them. That is 17.6 percent of the 250 flags on Flagdex: 28 belong to sovereign states and 16 to territories and dependencies. Another 9 flags carry all three colours plus at least one more, and are listed further down.
The largest group comes from the Americas, with 15 of the 44, followed by Europe (14), Oceania (5), Asia (4), Africa (3) and the Antarctic (3). Measured against the size of each region, the share is highest in the Antarctic, where 3 of its 5 flags use this palette and nothing else.
Read from the same flag images, the layouts split three ways: 12 with horizontal stripes (Russia, Netherlands), 2 with vertical stripes (France, Saint Martin) and 30 with another design (United States, Philippines). Plain stripes account for 14 of the 44, or 31.8 percent; the other 30 arrange the three colours as a cross, a canton, a disc, an emblem or another pattern the stripe test does not treat as bands.
The same 44 flags appear in the gallery with red, white and blue and “Only these colours” selected, where you can narrow them further by region or layout.
Red, white and blue with other colours
9 more flags carry red, white and blue together but add at least one further colour, so the exact filter leaves them out. The additions are green on 7, yellow on 4 and black on 3 of them. Together with the 44 above, 53 flags include all three colours; the gallery filter without “Only these colours” shows them as one set.
Red, white and blue flags by region
How the 44 exact matches and the 9 flags with extra colours are spread over the regions, against the number of flags each region holds.
| Region | Only red, white and blue | With other colours too | Flags in region | Share, exact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Americas | 15 | 2 | 56 | 27% |
| Europe | 14 | 0 | 53 | 26% |
| Oceania | 5 | 0 | 27 | 19% |
| Asia | 4 | 0 | 50 | 8% |
| Africa | 3 | 7 | 59 | 5% |
| Antarctic | 3 | 0 | 5 | 60% |
Red, white and blue flags by layout
Layout comes from the same build-time measurement as the colours: a flag counts as striped when almost every line across it, or down it, is a single colour and there are at least two such bands. Each row opens the gallery with that layout applied.
| Layout | Flags | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Horizontal stripes | 12 | 27% |
| Vertical stripes | 2 | 5% |
| Other designs | 30 | 68% |
Where the meaning is documented
19 of the 44 flags have a sourced explanation of their design on Flagdex: Australia, Cape Verde, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czechia, Dominican Republic, France, Iceland, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Russia, United Kingdom and United States. Shared colours do not mean a shared story, so each explanation sits on the country’s own page, and the flag meanings list gathers all of them.
How this list is defined
A flag is on the main list when red, white and blue each cover at least 7 percent of its opaque area and no other colour family does, measured at build time from the official public-domain SVG. It is the same test as the gallery’s “Only these colours” filter, so the two always agree. The full method is on the data page.
The threshold cuts both ways. Thin borders and small emblem details do not count, which keeps outlines from adding a colour, but it also means a flag can look red, white and blue to the eye and still be measured as two of the three. Single colours have their own pages: flags with red, flags with white and flags with blue.
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Colours and layouts are computed from each official public-domain flag SVG, not curated by hand. Full sources and vintage on the data page. Last updated . Report a correction.