Ukraine

Ukraine
Adopted	January 28, 1992
Designed by	Main Ruthenian Council
Proportions	2:3
Adopted	November 29, 1999
Proportions	1:1
Adopted	20 June 2006
Proportions	2:3
Proportions	2:3

The flag of Ukraine is an equal horizontal bicolor of blue and yellow.

Symbolism

The yellow symbolises the Ukrainian grain fields, while the blue symbolises the sky.

The flag's colors are borrowed from the Ukrainian coat of arms, as well as the flag of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia.

History

Kingdom of Ruthenia

Ruthenian lands during the Battle of Grunwald (1410)

Flag of Zaporozhian Sich

Cossack Hetmanate, (1649–1764)

Ukrainian People's Republic (1917)

UPRS (1917-1918)

WUPR and Hutsul Republic (1918-1919)

Free Territory (1918-1921)

USR (1918)

Ukrainian SSR (1919-1929)

Ukrainian SSR (1929-1937)

Ukrainian SSR (1937-1939)

Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)

Ukrainian SSR (1939-1941)

UNG (1941)

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941-1945)

Ukrainian SSR (1945-1949)

Ukrainian SSR (1949-1991), Ukraine (24 August 1991-28 January 1992)

Flag of Ukraine using post-Soviet colours (8 September 1991-28 January 1992)

Flag of Ukraine (1992–2006)

Ukraine (2006- )

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