Flag of Schleswig-Holstein flag on 18 January 1957. The plain tricolour is the state's civil flag. Government authorities use the state flag ("Landesdienstflagge"), where the flag is defaced by the state coat of arms. The tricolour was previously used for the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (1868-1946). It is almost identical to the flags of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia), as well as the flag of the Netherlands inverted. Flag of Schleswig-Holstein The flag of Schleswig-Holstein is a horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and red. Schleswig-Holstein is one of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy
Tricolour (flag) Qajar dynasty and the Russian Empire, respectively. The Indian independence movement in 1931 also adopted a tricolour (loan-translated as Hindi, तिरंगा "Tiraṅgā") in the traditional symbolism of "national unification" and republican "self-rule" (Purna Swaraj), adopted as the flag of the Indian Republic in 1947. In 1999, a red, green, and blue tricolour was proposed as the Flag of Mars. The design symbolizes liberty, and also the terraforming of Mars by humanity from a red planet to a green one, and eventually an Earth-like blue one. Tricolour (flag) A tricolour or tricolor is a type of flag or banner design with