Why do so many flags use red, white and blue on them?

Question

The UK, The USA, France, Netherlands, Paraguay, Liberia, Denmark... ad inifitum.. I know there are a lot more please don't tell me their names just if you have an answer...

Richelou, white is not a primary colour you dick

certainly you'd expect the Indian and pakistani flags to be a bit more "colourful" seeing the colour they paint their houses in England

baby girl that is the dumbest of dumb answers I have ever had the misfortune to read

yes genghis the french flag should be plain yellow

Answer 1

If you want to know about a certain country, go to the CIA world fact book. It has a section about the meaning of the countries flag. Each country has their own meaning for the colors, but they do seem to be widly used.

Answer 2

Coincidence, the tricoleur came about at the French revolution, and the Union Flag is composed of the English, Scottish and Irish flags, they aren't connected. (Yes Irish, not the modern day Irish flag though)

The American flag was originally a Union Flag in one corner with red and white stripes, so I assume the colour scheme for that one came from the Union Flag.

Answer 3

Much of it originates with England's time as a colonial power. Their colors were red, white and blue. As such, former colonies like America and Australia incorporated it into their flags, among others. Territories and nations associated with them subsequently took on those colors, like Puerto Rico, for one.

France...I couldn't really explain, Australia actually uses yellow and green, think Oregon U colors for their sports teams, so that's actually their unofficial colors. Liberia has close ties with America, hence why they have the red, white and blue.

I think the reason red white and blue are used so often is because it's just a good combination...

BTW...go Pistons!

Answer 4

The british have red white and blue becuase their flag is a combination of england's (white w/ red cross), scottland's (blue w/ white x) and the flag that the subjected on ireland (white w/ red x). The Americans took these colors basically imitating the british and the story of the red for blood, white for bandages etc. The french used red and white becuase they were the colors of paris. After the French Revolution, france's colors of red white and blue were seen as colors for republic and democracy. Many new republics took these colors. The three vertical bands of the french flag are also a symbol of republics (hence, italy, mexico, france, belgium etc.) As for any other country, its mere coincidence.

Answer 5

Cuz the colours of a flag are symbols of the history of the nation.Most of flags in the world
has red colour,which is symbol of blood,meaning a revolution in the nation history,like America:
4th of July,France:1789,Egypt:23rd ofJuly,..etc. To other colours i don't know.

Answer 6

I think its because these are the primary colours, and are usually the ones that are inherent in us. So, following on from that, when devising a flag it was probably the colours that the majority of people identified with

Answer 7

Because when colours were originally made the easiest to find for the larger flags were these three colours and they were the cheapest.

Answer 8

they are the colours on the british flag and the Uk had alot of colonies like example australia has the uk jack on it and are those colours. I think nor certain but there are no flags with pink and purple or some other colours.

Answer 9

I can only guess it's because Europe was where they started thinking of colonies first.. Hence African nations with red, blue, and white, just like Britian... the USA as well...Just a guess....

Answer 10

they are the three main colours that is why a lot of countries use them if there was green in the union jack it would look silly