Flags often imitate or are influenced by other nations, creating “flag families.” For example, the Netherlands’ red, white and blue flag from the 1500s set a precedent.

Princess Kate, 43, honored the nation by wearing a double-breasted red Alexander McQueen coat — one of the shades of the Welsh national flag.

“The colors of Philadelphia are blue and gold,” Henry C. McCook wrote in advocating for a city flag in 1894. The Philadelphia ...

The red, white and blue represents the American flag, a reminder that slaves and their descendants were and are Americans. June 19, 1865, represents the day that enslaved Black people in Galveston ...

Ukraine adopted its first national flag in 1848; revolutionaries, who wanted the country's western entities to be freed from Austro-Hungarian rule, chose the colors based on the coat of arms of ...

On March 9, the former actress shared an artist’s rendering of her iconic scene in the film with her coat color changed from red to blue to represent Ukraine‘s blue and yellow flag, which she ...