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Suomi, Finland, Suomen Tasavalta, Republiken Finland (Republic of Finland)

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[](../images/f/fi.gif)image by Željko Heimer

Proportions: 11:18
Usage code: [](../misc/fissumry.gif)
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

ISO Code: FI FIN 246
FIPS 10-4 Code: FI
MARC Code: fi
IOC Code: FIN

• Fact Sheet
• State Flag and Ensign
• Swallow-tailed State (War) Flag and Ensign
• National Flag at the London 2012 Olympics
• Roundel
• About dimensions in Scandinavian flags

See also:

• Finland: Index of Pages
• Flag dates: by country
• Flag Related Stamps issued by Finland
• Denmark
• Iceland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Åland Islands
• Faroe Islands (Denmark)
• Scanian cross flag (Sweden)

Outside links:

• The flag and arms of Finland (English)
• The Flag at This is Finland (English)

State Flag and Ensign

image by Željko Heimer
Proportions: 11:18 = (4:3:4):(5:3:10)
Usage Code: [](../misc/fissumry.gif)
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

Rectangular state flag. Blue cross on white with coat of arms of the state in the middle square of the cross. The coat of arms has a yellow contour (width 3/40 units) to avoid touching of the blue and red colour.
Ossi Raivio, 25 September 1996

Swallow-tailed State (War) Flag and Ensign

[image by Željko Heimer
Proportions: 11:19 = (4+3+4):(5+3+6+5)
Usage Code: [](../misc/fissumry.gif)
Adopted: 26 May 1978
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

Swallow-tailed state flag (Old name: War flag). Blue cross on white with coat of arms of the state in the middle square of the cross. Depth of the swallows is 6 units. Formerly it was the Finnish war flag. The coat of arms has a yellow contour (width 3/40 units) to avoid the touch of blue and red colour.
Ossi Raivio, 25 September 1996

National Flag at the London 2012 Olympics

The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC believed the flag to be.
For Finland: PMS 294 blue. The vertical flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012

Roundel

[](../images/f/fi^round.gif)image by Željko Heimer
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

About dimensions in Scandinavian flags

[](../images/f/fi-dimen.gif)image by Edward Mooney, Jr.

National Flag and Ensign: Blue cross on white, proportions 11:18 - (5:3:10):(4:3:4).
Ossi Raivio, 27 October 1998

Scandinavian crosses are measured by the width of the color, as shown in the diagram above. In the case of Finland, horizontally there are 5 units of white, 3 units of blue, and 10 units of white. Vertically the flag has 4 units of white, 3 unit of blue, and 4 units of white.
Edward Mooney, Jr., 20 December 1999