Flag of Wales
Locally Cymru
What the flag looks like
Two equal horizontal bands of white over green, with a large red dragon striding across both.
What it means
The red dragon, Y Ddraig Goch, has been a symbol of Wales for centuries, and white and green were the colors of the Welsh-descended House of Tudor.
How to remember it
Wales
has a red dragon striding over white and green; Bhutan's
dragon is white and lies across a diagonal split of yellow and orange.
Fun facts
- Wales is the only one of the UK's countries whose flag is not represented on the Union Jack.
- The red dragon is said to come from the legend of a red dragon defeating a white one, told in the ninth-century Historia Brittonum.
Wales at a glance
- Status
- Country of the United Kingdom
- Part of
- United Kingdom
- Legislature
- Senedd
- Capital
- Cardiff
- Region
- Country of the United Kingdom
- Population
- 3.1 million
- Area
- 21,218 km²
- Languages
- Welsh, English
- Currency
- British pound (£)
- Flag adopted
- 1959
Flags often confused with Wales
- Bhutan: Bhutan and Wales both have a dragon across the whole flag. Wales has a red dragon on white over green; Bhutan has a white dragon on a diagonal split of yellow and orange.