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This flag is wrong, the « union- flag» Norway and Sweden shared at that time, had the nickname « the herring- sallad». In upper, inner corner, the Norwegian colours where shown, that means that the blue cross is missing in the middle of the white cross in the flag. The Norwegian colours are « red, white and blue»!
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DescriptionEnsign of Sweden and Norway (1815–1844).svg
English: Swedish and Norwegian naval ensign from 1815–1844, with the saltire on red in the canton symbolizing Norway.
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Own work by the Swedish and Norwegian Governments.
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Swedish and Norwegian Governments. Vectorized by cflm (talk).
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Fixed slight imperfection for the yellow stripe (height at the triple-tail side). Reduced nominal dimensions, resetting the flag aspect ratio to the correct 2012-version (20:37>>1:1.85): in previous version slight different (1:1.851). Optimized svg code before upload. No other changes.
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