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Average Colour Hue of Country & US State Flags

January 3, 2015 5 Comments

Average colour hue of world flags

Map by reddit user delugetheory

Here’s the last post for awhile about flag colours. Previous posts have looked at The Shade of Red Each Country Has On Its Flag and Countries Whose Flags Contain Red and/or Blue. The map above looks at what happens when you blend all the colours from each country’s flag proportionally.

Somewhat surprisingly there is a relatively large variety of colours, given that red and blue so often appear on flags.

Below you can see what happens when you do the same thing for individual US state flags:

average colour hue of US state flags

Map by reddit user delugetheory

Interestingly, the US seems to have far less variation than that seen in the rest of the world, with most being somewhere along the red-blue continuum. New Mexico in yellow and Washington in green are probably the biggest departures from the norm.

You can read more about flags here:

  • Flags of the Fifty States: Their Colorful Histories And Significance
  • Flags Over America: A Star-Spangled Story
  • Complete Flags of the World

See any surprising colour mixtures? Let us know below:

Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: flags

Comments

  1. silvia says

    January 15, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    Kosovo is recognized by most countries while Western Sahara is not, what criterion do you use?

    Reply
    • Brilliant Maps says

      January 16, 2015 at 9:00 am

      Unfortunately this map was not created by us so you’d have to ask the map creator. However, I do agree it’s odd.

      Reply
  2. David Pike says

    June 9, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    Wales?

    Reply
    • H says

      February 9, 2020 at 4:01 pm

      It isn’t a country.

      Reply
  3. Sarosh Sanjar says

    January 17, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    Illinois,Rhode Island And Massachusetts flags are white and Florida And Alabama And California

    Reply

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