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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 ...
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.
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."
10:19. Adopted. June 14, 1777 (13-star version) July 4, 1960 (50-star version) Design. Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 50 white stars on a blue field. Designed by. Unknown, possibly Francis Hopkinson. The ensign of the United States is the flag of the United States when worn as an ensign (a type of maritime ...
Flag of the United States.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 421 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 168 pixels | 640 × 337 pixels | 1,024 × 539 pixels | 1,280 × 674 pixels | 2,560 × 1,347 pixels | 1,235 × 650 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,235 × 650 pixels, file size: 899 bytes) The source code of this ...
US Letter paper size is 8.5x11. Fold 1/2 inch to get 10.5 inches. Thats your "B" and you can get one flag out of a paper: A = 5.5 inch (this is your height of the flag) B = 10.5 inch. L = 27/64 inch (height of each stripe) C = 2 15/16 inches or 7 stripes. D = 4 3/16 inch. E = F = 19/64 inch.
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]
This diagram of the flag of the United States was given in Executive Order 10834, by Dwight D. Eisenhower, on August 21, 1959 (see w:List of United States federal executive orders). It appears in the United States Code, title 4, chapter 1 The law specifies the lengths in the diagram as follows: Hoist (width) of flag: A = 1.0