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Norway

Norge, Noreg, Kongeriket Norge (Kingdom of Norway)

Civil Flag
image by António Martins
Proportions: 8:11
Usage Code:

State and War Flag
image by Jan Oskar Engene
Usage Code:

ISO Code: NO NOR 578
FIPS 10-4 Code: NO
MARC Code: no
IOC Code: NOR

Fact Sheet
Flag Pole
Dimensions of the flag
About dimensions in Scandinavian flags

See also:

External links:

Riksvåpenet (in Norwegian)
Øystein Imsen: Flaggsak og flaggbruk i 1890-a°ra - fra Stortinget till Ilevolden (flag usage in the 1890s; in Norwegian)

Flag Pole

Norwegian legislation does not say anything about the flagpole. Most often, there will be an ordinary knob on top of a flag pole, sometimes a spearhead. The flagpole itself is usually white.
Jan Oskar Engene, 03 May 1996

Dimensions of the flag

The official proportions of the flag are 16:22, being divided horizontally 6:1:2:1:12 and vertically 6:1:2:1:6.
Yngvar Lundh, 29 August 1995

The dimensions of the swallow-tail flag are 6:1:2:1:6:11 horizontally and 6:1:2:1:6 vertically.
Mark Sensen, 25 September 1995

About dimensions in Scandinavian flags

by Edward Mooney, Jr.

Scandinavian crosses are measured by the width of the color, as shown in the diagram above. In the case of Norway, horizontally there are 6 units of red, 1 unit of white, 2 units of blue, 1 unit of white, and 12 units of red. Vertically the flag has 6 units of red, 1 unit of white, 2 units of blue, 1 unit of white and 6 units of red.
Edward Mooney, Jr., 20 December 1999