National flag
Wales
- Flag type
- National flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG0102
- Flag date
- February 1959
- Designer
- Unknown
- Adoption route
- Royal Decree
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- WhiteGreen 354Red 186
- Certification
- Queen Elizabeth II
About the flag
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.
