THE FLAGS OF THE

THREE COUNTRIES
United States of America, The United Kingdom and Republic of Moldova
 Republic of
Moldova
• The state flag of the Republic of Moldova is a
vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red,
charged with the coat of arms of Moldova (an
eagle holding a shield charged with an aurochs)
on the center bar.
• Since April 2010, the Flag Day of Moldova is
celebrated on 27 April each year. On this day in
1990, the tricolor was officially adopted by the
Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR as the
state flag of the country.
Signification:
• The Moldovan arms, adopted in 1990,
features a dark golden eagle holding an
Orthodox Christian cross in its beak.
Instead of a sword, the eagle is holding an
olive branch, symbolizing peace. The blue
and red shield on the eagle's chest is
charged with the traditional symbols of
Moldova: an aurochs' head, flanked by a
rose in dexter and a crescent in sinister
and having a star between its horns, all of
gold.
The United Kingdom
• The national flag of the United Kingdom is
the Union Jack.
• The Union Jack was designed to have a
white-fimbriated symmetric red cross on a
blue field with a white-fimbriated
counterchanged saltire of red and white.
The evolution
of The Union Jack
Signification:
• The earlier flag of Great Britain was
established in 1606 by a proclamation of King
James VI and I of Scotland and England. The
new flag of the United Kingdom was officially
created by an Order in Council of 1801,
reading as follows:
“The Union Flag shall be azure, the Crosses
saltire of Saint Andrew and Saint Patrick
quarterly per saltire, counter-changed, argent and
gules, the latter fimbriated of the second,
surmounted by the Cross of Saint George of the
third fimbriated as the saltire.”
 The United
States of
America
The flag of the United States of
America, often referred to as the
American flag or U.S. flag, is the
national flag of the United States.
The current design of the U.S. flag
is its 27th; the design of the flag
has been modified officially 26
times since 1777. The 50-star flag
was ordered by then president
Eisenhower on August 21, 1959,
and was adopted in July 1960. It is
the longest-used version of the
U.S. flag and has been in use for
over 59 years.
 Signification:
It consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of
red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a
blue rectangle in the canton (referred to
specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small,
white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset
horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and
bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50
stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the
United States of America, and the 13 stripes
represent the thirteen British colonies that declared
independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain,
and became the first states in the U.S.