基本介紹
- 中文名：冰島國旗
- 外文名：íslenskifáninn
- 採用日期：1944年6月17日
- 外觀：藍色底色配以白色及紅色的十字
- 國旗比例：比例18:25
國旗元素,英文介紹,
國旗元素
這面旗幟在1918年冰島從丹麥獨立時被定為冰島的國旗。對於冰島人來說這面旗幟的色彩象徵著冰島的景色，三種色彩分別象徵著組成冰島的三種元素：紅色象徵冰島火山中的火焰；白色象徵覆蓋冰島的冰雪；藍色則象徵大西洋。
英文介紹
The flag of Iceland (Icelandic: Íslenski fáninn) was officially described in Law No. 34, set out on 17 June 1944, the day Iceland became a republic. The law is entitled "The Law of the National Flag of Icelanders and the State Arms" and describes the Icelandic flag as follows:
The civil national flag of Icelanders is blue as the sky with a snow-white cross, and a fiery-redcross inside the white cross. The arms of the cross extend to the edge of the flag, and their combined width is 2/9, but the red cross 1/9 of the combined width of the flag. The blue areas are right angled rectangles, the rectilinear surfaces are parallel and the outer rectilinear surfaces as wide as them, but twice the length. The dimensions between the width and length are 18:25.
Iceland's first national flag was a white cross on a deep blue background. It was first paraded in 1897. The modern flag dates from 1915, when a red cross was inserted into the white cross of the original flag. It was adopted in 1918 and became the national flag when Iceland gained independence from Denmark in 1944. For the Icelandic people the flag's coloring represents a vision of their country's landscape. The colors stand for 3 of the elements that make up the island. Red is the fire produced by the island's volcanoes, white recalls the ice and snow that covers Iceland, and blue for the Atlantic Ocean.
The state flag (Tjúgufáni) differs from the civil one, that the outer rectangles are three times longer than the hoist side rectangles and split at the end, cut directly from the outer corners to its center line. Cutting the inner edges of the outer rectangles at 4/7 of outer length and 3/7 of inner length of the outer rectangles. When this cut encounters the edge of the red cross it is cut vertically.
