| Flag Type: | National Flag |
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| Flag Date: | February 1959 |
| Flag Designer: | Unknown |
| Adoption Route: | Royal Decree |
| UK Design Code: | UNKG0102 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 3:5 |
| Pantone® Colours: | White, Green 354, Red 186 |
| Certification: | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Notes: | The Wales Flag, or Red Dragon, or Y Ddraig Goch, is the national flag of this constituent nation of the United Kingdom. The official adoption of its design – a large red dragon on a white and green background – dates from 1959. It followed a short-lived version, introduced in 1953, which showed the dragon on a green mound, within a ribbon reading Y ddraig goch ddry cychwyn [‘The red dragon advances’]. Use in Wales of the red dragon emblem, however, dates back much further – to the reign of Cadwaladr, king of Gwynedd, c. 655CE.
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