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Flag of France
The French flag

The Flag of France is called the "Tricolour" (French: le drapeau tricolore). It was adopted 15 February 1794. It is blue, white and red. The current colors are the ones that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing chose.

Flag of Europe.svg Flags of Europe
Sovereign
states

Albania • Andorra • Armenia1 • Austria • Azerbaijan2 • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus1 • Czech Republic • Denmark4 • Estonia • Finland • France4, 5, 6 • Georgia2 • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Iceland • Republic of Ireland • Italy • Kazakhstan3 • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Republic of Macedonia • Malta • Moldova • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands4 • Norway • Poland • Portugal6 • Romania • Russia3 • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain6 • Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey3 • Ukraine • United Kingdom (England • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales)
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Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories

Abkhazia 2 • Adjara1 • Adygea • Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Azores • Bashkortostan • Chechnya • Chuvashia • Crimea • Dagestan • Faroe Islands • Gagauzia • Gibraltar • Guernsey • Ingushetia • Jan Mayen • Jersey • Kabardino-Balkaria • Kalmykia • Karachay-Cherkessia • Republic of Karelia • Komi Republic • Kosovo • Madeira7 • Isle of Man • Mari El • Mordovia • Nagorno-Karabakh1 • Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic1 • North Ossetia-Alania • Northern Cyprus1 • South Ossetia 2 • Svalbard • Tatarstan • Transnistria • Udmurtia • Vojvodina
Italics indicates an unrecognised or partially recognised country.  1 / 7 Entirely in Asia / on the African Plate, but historically considered European.  2 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the border definitions.  3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Has part of its territory in Asia / North America / South America / Africa.

Images for kids

  • Drapeaux français

    Multiple French flags as commonly flown from public buildings.

  • Lar7 cogniet 001z

    The White flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution, painting by Léon Cogniet (1830).

  • Lar9 philippo 001z

    Lamartine, before the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, rejects the Red Flag, 25 February 1848. By Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.

  • Vigiles du roi Charles VII 32

    The French soldiers started to use white crosses, during the Hundred Years' War, to distinguish themselves from the English soldiers wearing red crosses (battle of Formigny).

  • Grenadier Pied 1 1812 Revers

    Regimental flag of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard (1812).

  • Drapeaux 1RE et 2REI Paris 2003

    Current regimental flags of the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the French Foreign Legion

  • Flag of the Franco-Nunavois

    Flag of Franco-Nunavois


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