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The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America. It is part of Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code ( 4 U.S.C. § 5 et seq ). Although this is a U.S. federal law, [ 1] the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like "should" and "custom ...
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
The basic design of the current flag is specified by 4 U.S.C. § 1 (1947): "The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."
Current territory flags. These are the current official flags of the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States. Dates in parentheses denote when the territory's current flag was adopted by its respective political body. [citation needed] Flag of American Samoa. (April 17, 1960) Flag of Guam.
Flag of the United States (Francis Hopkinson).pdf. English: Three color flag with 13 stars of six points and 13 stripes with 7 white stripes and 6 red stripes, with seven stripes below the canton. Date. 31 August 2012.
This template displays a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name Template parameters This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Country identifier 1 Common name of the country (e.g. 'United States'), a common alias (e.g. 'US'), or a standard country code String required Variant 2 variant Identifies a flag variant to be used instead of the ...
This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flag icon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status No parameters specified This is the documentation for ...
The only non-rectangular or non-square national flag. Also the only flag with a decimal ratio below 1 (i.e. taller than it is wide). While the red inner part has a ratio of exactly 4:3 (0.75), [ 66] the complete flag has an irrational aspect ratio of approximately 1.21901:1 due to the blue border. [ Note 3][ 67]