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flag of Canada

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flag of Canada
Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barrister at Wikimedia Commons. The current SVG encoding is a rewrite performed by MapGrid. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

flag of Canada is a national flag[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of national flag entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,909 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: George Stanley[3]
  • Instance of: triband[4]
  • Genre: Canadian pale[5]
  • Depicts: maple leaf[6], field[7], pale[8]
  • Designed by: George Stanley[9]
  • Commons category: National flag of Canada[10]
  • Color: red[11], white[12]
  • Unicode character: 🇨🇦[13]
  • Inception: February 15, 1965[14]
  • Has cause: Great Canadian Flag Debate[15]
  • Commons gallery: Flags of Canada / Drapeaux du Canada[16]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: Canada[17]
  • Replaces: Canadian Red Ensign[18]
  • Nickname: l'Unifolié[19]
  • Aspect ratio (W:H): 2:1[20]
  • Has part(s) of the class: stripe[21]

Why It Matters

flag of Canada has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Canada national flag

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . canada.ca. canada.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Designed by → George Stanley
    Genre → Canadian pale
    Local thumb → —
    Inception → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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