Flags are streamers that are flown on shafts to show troth to a kingdom, land, or some other thede. The sheets of cloth are dyed with hues that are meaningful to the folk that sail them; their shapes also have stock meanings that are found in all flags.
There are 196 theedish flags on the Earth.
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All theedish flags, with Nepal as a standout, are four sided and righthooks. Each shape on a flag has a name to narrowly betell each part of the sheet.
Below is a spreadsheet that makes clear the names of each stock shape that is used, with links to ethels that forthset that shape on their flag:
| English | Anglish | Wordmark | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bend | - | A slanted streak that stretched from a top tip to the athwart bottom tip | Threefold and Smokleaf |
| Border | Outskirt | A band of color that rings the edges of a flag | Blackbarrow |
| Canton | Box | A fourside shape, often in the top hoistside tip that takes up to one-fourth of the field | Taiwan |
| Chevron | Rafter | A v-shaped mark, often on the hoist side | Checkland |
| Cross (Couped) | Cut Syebeam | A rood that can be foldmatched four ways | Swissland |
| Cross (Nordic) | Norse Syebeam | A rood with the middle thwarst shifted towards the hoist | Sweden |
| Cross (Symmetrical) | Middle Syebeam | A rood with its thwarst in the middle of the field | Angland |
| Fess | Warp | A flatways band that takes up one-third of the flag | Eastric |
| Field | - | The background hue of a flag | Libya (formerly) |
| Fly | - | The half or edge of a flag farthest from a flagshaft | - |
| Hoist | - | The half or edge of a flag nearest to the flagshaft | - |
| Pale | Weft | An upright band that takes up one-third of the flag | Peru |
| Pall | Wrap | A y-shaped mark, often on the hoist side | South Highsun |
| Quadrisection | Foursplit | Two righthooks in athwart tips that sunder the flag into fourths | Panama |
| Saltire | Holy Andrew's Syebeam | An x-shaped mark in the middle of the flag | Scotland |