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# President of Finland – Flag and Ensign

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Last modified: 2026-04-11 by christopher oehler
Keywords: finland | swastika | president | cross of freedom |
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 2 June 2024
Proportions: 11:19
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

- Description of the Flag
- President's Pennant

See also:

- Governmental Authorities and Organisations (Finland)
- Historical Finnish Flags (Previous Presidential Flags)
- Swastikas in Finland
- Finland

## Description of the Flag

Finnish swallow-tailed state flag with a blue-yellow Cross of Freedom 3rd Class for Civil Merits in the upper hoist.

Ratio: 11:19 = (4 + 3 + 4):(5 + 3 + 5 + 6)
Use: presidential flag and ensign
Adopted: 26 May 1978
Ossi Raivio, 24 October 1998

## President's Pennant

image by Željko Heimer
Source: Album des pavillons (2000)

This pennant is used only on navy ships. It is hoisted above the presidential flag.
Ossi Raivio, 26 August 2001

A rectangular swallow-tailed bicolour white-blue pennant with a square hoist of the banner of arms of Finland. The Corr. 3 [pay03] to the Album 2000 gives the proportions to 2:57 making the indentation to 9 units 2:(48+9).
Željko Heimer, 18 October 2004

Carr, in Flags of the World, 1961 [car61], p. 266, writes about the President's Flag:

> The President's Flag is like the naval ensign, but bears in the first quarter what is best described as an heraldic "cross-pattée", in blue, charged with a yellow "fylfot" or swastika-shaped cross, The Cross of Freedom - Finland's most distinguished order.

Jarig Bakker, 18 August 2007