File:Flag of NATO.svg

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Summary

Description

Català: Bandera de l'Organització del Tractat de l'Atlàntic Nord (OTAN).

Čeština: Vlajka Severoatlantické aliance (NATO).

Deutsch: Flagge der Organizazione/ North Atlantic Starts Treaty..Falko1 Organization (NATO).

English: The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Color is PMS 280, RGB #004990.

Español: Bandera de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN).

Français : Drapeau de l'Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord (OTAN).

Italiano: Bandiera dell'Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord (NATO).

Nederlands: Vlag van de Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie (NAVO).

Polski: Flaga Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego (NATO).

Русский: Флаг Организации Североатлантическового договора (НАТО).

Українська: Прапор Організації Північноатлантичного договору (НАТО).

Shqip: Flamuri i Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior

Date

14 October 1953

Source

Current file:

Source file on Wikimedia Commons Flag of NATO.svg (January 2013)
Itself copied from the following sites:
- http://althistory.wikia.com/
- http://countries.wikia.com/
- Resaved by me (User: 475847394d347339) with Inkscape because for some reason, the original SVG file can't be viewed directly in a web browser through Inkscape opens it just fine. (January 2013)
Used the aforementioned image to update this file (Nov 2015)
Color corrected to #004990 by User: Kwamikagami (Jul 2022)

Previous file

Official emblem of NATO at www.nato.int

Author

Current file:

Found by 475847394d347339 in websites noted in the source section.

Previous file

Vectorization: Mysid and uploaded to Flag of NATO.svg
Code cleaned up by Artem Karimov.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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Other versions

Flag of NATO 3-5 ratio.svg (10242 bytes, #004990)
Flag of NATO 3-5 ratio 2.svg (12425 bytes, #004990)

Colours

Blue (#004990)

white (#FFFFFF)

SVG development

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Licensing

This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:39, 22 May 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	CDRWeidyKekAtaruBreach122	Reverted to version as of 08:16, 20 May 2023 (UTC) We are not going to use the British navy blue shade
	10:16, 21 May 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	SpanishFlag	Reverted to version as of 23:49, 15 May 2023 (UTC) I agree with Bavovnyatko that the blue has to be darker
	08:16, 20 May 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	J2772011	Reverted to version as of 13:48, 17 April 2023 (UTC) THIS A CORRECT FLAG
	23:49, 15 May 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	Bavovnyatko	Reverted to version as of 13:55, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
	21:39, 9 May 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	Kwamikagami	Reverted to version as of 22:24, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
	13:55, 5 May 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	SpanishEmpireMCDXCII	Reverted to version as of 09:38, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
	22:24, 28 April 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	CDRWeidyKekAtaruBreach122	Reverted to version as of 15:26, 23 April 2023 (UTC) The official NATO website uses azure flag, not navy blue
	09:38, 28 April 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	SpanishEmpireBall2009	Reverted to version as of 08:28, 23 April 2023 (UTC) dats ok
	15:26, 23 April 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	Alexphangia	Reverted to version as of 13:48, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
	08:28, 23 April 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	SpanishEmpireBall2009	ORIGINAL ACCURATE FLAG DONT REVERT ANYMORE
	13:48, 17 April 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	J2772011	Reverted to version as of 09:03, 6 April 2023 (UTC) Accurate Color
	18:16, 16 April 2023		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	SpanishEmpireMCDXCII	Reverted to version as of 07:28, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
	16:43, 6 April 2023		267 × 200 (6 KB)	MoRisop	Cleaned, optimized
	09:03, 6 April 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	Kwamikagami	rv: previous seems cleaner, more optimized
	21:17, 5 April 2023		267 × 200 (6 KB)	MoRisop	Cleaned, optimized
	14:53, 6 February 2023		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	HapHaxion	Reverted to version as of 21:31, 24 July 2022 (UTC). No explanation for change.
	02:51, 27 January 2023		667 × 500 (2 KB)	MoRisop	*
	21:31, 24 July 2022		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	Kwamikagami	Reverted to version as of 08:49, 22 July 2022 (UTC) -- official color per NATO specs
	07:28, 24 July 2022		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	Eightest	Reverted to version as of 09:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
	08:49, 22 July 2022		960 × 720 (852 bytes)	Kwamikagami	fix color per ref given in Summary
	09:57, 29 July 2020		960 × 720 (851 bytes)	Sarang	more cleaned - but contains still some strange coding
	20:04, 15 October 2019		960 × 720 (1 KB)	Mrmw	cleaned, optimized
	15:39, 18 December 2015		1,024 × 768 (3 KB)	Rob984	Corrected colour (Pantone 280).
	23:38, 30 November 2015		1,024 × 768 (2 KB)	475847394d347339	There are inaccuracies at the corners of the star.
	17:36, 30 November 2015		800 × 600 (1 KB)	Sandstein	Reverted to version as of 14:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC). No explanation as to which inaccuracy is meant.
	00:45, 30 November 2015		1,024 × 768 (2 KB)	475847394d347339	Resolves some inaccuracies.
	14:22, 21 June 2013		800 × 600 (1 KB)	AnonMoos	simplify code
	15:31, 23 February 2013		800 × 600 (3 KB)	Peeperman	changed colour to PMS 280, layers that were not necessary removed
	16:17, 7 August 2012		800 × 600 (5 KB)	Fnlayson	Reverted to version as of 21:36, 2 January 2010
	15:13, 4 December 2010	No thumbnail	0 × 0 (1 KB)	Sandstein	Use the version previously at en:File:Flag of NATO.svg vectorized by en:User:Mysid from http://www.nato.int/multi/natologo.htm. This version conforms more closely to the official flag on that NATO website.
	21:36, 2 January 2010		800 × 600 (5 KB)	Mboro	{{Information \|Description={{en\|Flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).}} {{pl\|Flaga Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego (NATO).}} \|Source=* [http://www.nato.int/multi/natologo.htm The official emblem of NATO] – www.nato.int * [http://www.zeald