Flag of Luxembourg Flag of Luxembourg The flag of Luxembourg (, , ) consists of three horizontal stripes, red, white and blue, and can be in 1:2 or 3:5 ratio. It was first used between 1845 and 1848 and officially adopted on 23 June 1972. Luxembourg had no flag until 1830, when patriots were urged to display the national colours. The flag was defined as a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue in 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1972. The tricolour flag is almost identical to Flag of the Netherlands, except that it is longer and its blue stripe
Newfoundland Tricolour (SOSA). It is one of the very few and perhaps one of the oldest popularly recognized flags in the world to use the colour pink. However, the true Newfoundland tricolour flag is the red(at the hoist)-white(in the centre)-green(on the fly) flag of the Newfoundland Natives' Society which was founded in 1840 in St. John's. Historical evidence indicates that the "Pink, White and Green" flag first appeared in the 1880s to 1890s as the flag of the Roman Catholic fraternal group the Star of the Sea Association, which was formed in St. John's in 1871. It bears a strong resemblance to