Flag of Greece Flag of Greece The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "sky-blue - white" or the "blue-white" (), officially recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols, is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolises Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of Greece and Cyprus. The blazon of the flag is "Azure, four bars Argent; on a canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second." The official flag ratio
Flag of the West Indies Federation Flag of the West Indies Federation The flag of the West Indies Federation was used between 1958 and 1962. It bore four equally spaced narrow white stripes with a large orange-gold disc over the middle two lines in the center of the flag, undulating horizontally across a blue field representing the Caribbean Sea and the sun shining upon the waves. The flag was originally designed by Edna Manley. The flag is shown as 1:2; the upper two white stripes reflect the lower ones. The official description given in the West Indies Gazette is "Flag approved has blue ground with four