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Flag Hungary, in 36 editions.

The entry for Hungary published Flag in 36 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2025. The text changed in 5 editions. Each is shown as published. Flag in every entry.

editions changed the text
5
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Flag” (1990 to 2025) and “Flag description” (1997 to 2024).

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2012 edition

Same as 2011

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The same text in 15 editions, 2010 to 2024.

Published as “Flag description”

  • three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and green;
  • the flag dates to the national movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, and fuses the medieval colors of the Hungarian coat of arms with the revolutionary tricolor form of the French flag;
  • folklore attributes virtues to the colors: red for strength, white for faithfulness, and green for hope;
  • alternatively, the red is seen as being for the blood spilled in defense of the land, white for freedom, and green for the pasturelands that make up so much of the country

Rewritten: too little of the 2009 text remains to mark the changes.
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and green; the flag dates to the national movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, and fuses the medieval colors of the Hungarian coat of arms with the revolutionary tricolor form of the French flag; folklore attributes virtues to the colors: red for strength, white for faithfulness, and green for hope; alternatively, the red is seen as being for the blood spilled in defense of the land, white for freedom, and green for the pasturelands that make up so much of the country

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Hungary: Flag.” The World Factbook, 1990–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/hungary/flag.

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