What is the most uncommon color found on a world flag?

The most uncommon flag colors are… purple and pink. Take a look at the few flags that actually feature these uncommon flag colors in their flag design.
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What is the least common colour in flags?

Purple is the least common colour on any world flag, only appearing on the flags of Dominica and Nicaragua.
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Which color is not found in any flag?

There are 196 countries in the world today and virtually none of them have purple on their national flag. So what's wrong with purple? After Skool explains how the color was worth more than gold.
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Do any flags have purple?

Did you ever notice that you rarely see purple on national flags? In fact, only two countries, Dominica and Nicaragua, have purple in their flag. This is because purple dye was very expensive in the past. Purple dye was made from collecting the mucus from thousands of sea snails.
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Is there a flag with pink on it?

Bisexual Pride Flag — Created in 1998 by Michael Page, the bisexual pride flag has a is pink on the top and royal blue on the bottom, with an overlapping purple stripe in the middle.
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What is the most uncommon color found on a world flag?



Why is purple not on any flags?

Believe it or not, the reason there aren't more purple in flags is primarily due to sea snails. By the 19th century, the only way to produce purple dye was from an esoteric species of sea snails found only in a small part of the Mediterranean. It took 10,000 of these snails to produce just a single gram of die.
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What flag has only one colour?

In 1977 Libya broke free of the merger and became the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. A plain green flag, the only plain coloured flag in the world, was chosen to represent Gaddafi's political philosophy. When Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 the United Nations chose the original flag of Libya as the national flag.
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Which flag has no red white or blue?

Conversation. The flag of Jamaica is the only national flag without red, white or blue.
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Which country has 2 Colours on its flag?

Japan. The Japanese flag is easily the simplest two colored flag design.
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Which country has 6 Colours on its flag?

As the only nation to use six colors in their flag's primary design, South Africa gets first place on our list of the world's most colorful flags. The flag's design is made up of a green horizontal Y, positioned so that the Y touches both the upper and lower left corners of the flag.
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What flag has ak47?

"Mozambique's flag is the only one to feature a modern automatic weapon," Berry says. The AK-47 on Mozambique's flag is symbolic of the war for its independence, which was finally granted in 1975, in which the Russian firearm was used.
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Who has a turquoise flag?

flag of Kazakhstan | Britannica.
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Are there 196 flags in the world?

There are 196 sovereign nations in the world, and, in turn, 196 national flags. But this one color is rarely seen on any of them.
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What color does not exist?

Magenta doesn't exist because it has no wavelength; there's no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn't like having green (magenta's complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing.
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Is purple a rare color?

An exotic colour at the far end of our visible spectrum and often associated with royalty, purple is relatively rare in nature.
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What country has black flags?

Since May 22, 1990, Yemen has used only the simple tricolour: black is said to stand for the dark days of the past, while white represents a bright future and red the blood of the struggle to achieve independence and unity. Similar flags have been used by Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and The Sudan.
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How many LGBT flags are there?

Did you know that there are more than 20 different Pride Flags?
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What flag is green with yellow diamond?

national flag consisting of a green field (background) with a large yellow diamond incorporating a blue disk with a white band and stars.
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Which country's flag is not tricolor?

The correct answer is Switzerland.
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What flag color is pink?

The colours are said to represent the green of Ireland, the pink of England's rose, and the white of the Scottish thistle. In the early 20th century the myth expanded to include the Newfoundland Natives' Society (NNS), a non-denominational organization founded in 1840 to promote the advancement of the native-born.
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What does pink mean on a flag?

Flags and Symbols. Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul.
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Why do most flags have 3 colors?

They have come to represent liberty, equality and fraternity — the ideals of the French Revolution. Blue and red are also the timehonoured colours of Paris, while white is the colour of the Royal House of Bourbon.
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