Ukraine
Adopted1992
Design classBicolor
RegionEurope
Blue and yellow horizontal bands.
History and symbolism
The blue and yellow bicolour, traced to the arms of the medieval principality of Galicia, was raised by the republic of 1918 and restored in 1992. Blue is the sky and yellow the wheat field.
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