In addition, commonwealth countries have incorporated the Union Jack within their flags to signify the history of British settlement, including Australia, New Zealand, and Tuvalu.

One of the oldest flags of the world, the Union Jack is a combination of three separate flags with symbols of the patron saints of the three countries — England and Wales, Scotland and Northern ...

The British Union Jack’s colors impacted flags in former British colonies, such as the U.S., ... According to World Atlas, 29 countries have red, white and blue in their national flag.

If the Union Jack represents the four Home Countries, why is not the Welsh Flag, i.e. the dragon, given some form of representation. It would look quite attractive in the centre. Vaughan Williams, ...

Those who believe it is named after the jackstaff — a flagpole on a ship — are only half right. The term ‘jack’ was used before 1600 to describe a small flag, with the pole named after the flag about ...

On this island over the coming years, whatever the constitutional future holds, the Irish flag and the union jack will have to grow more comfortable in each other’s company, as they had started ...

The Union Jack could undergo a massive change if petition organisers get their way, with a major movement aiming to alter the more than 400-year-old design. Wales is conspicuously absent from the ...