File:Flag of Tonga.svg

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Summary

Description

Lea faka-Tonga: Fuka ʻo Tonga

English: Flag of Tonga

Cymraeg: Baner Tonga

Français : Drapeau des Tonga

Gaeilge: Bratach Thonga

Gaelg: Brattagh ny Tongey

Kernowek: Baner Tonga

Italiano: Bandiera delle Tonga

Scots: Banner o Tonga

Slovenščina: Zastava Tonge

Date

1875 - present

Source

Based on this contruction sheet:

Originally from the Open Clip Art website

Author

See File history, below for details.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work was first published on the Tonga and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the The Copyright Act No. 12 of 2002 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is an audiovisual or collective work and 50 years have passed since the date of its creation (or publication, whatever date is the latest)
It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year the work was created
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is "any official text of a legislative, administrative or of legal nature, as well as official translations thereof"

This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Heptagon

It is easy to put a border around this flag image :
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Licensing

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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:55, 13 October 2015		960 × 480 (315 bytes)	CemDemirkartal	UTF-8 character encoding added
	12:25, 23 March 2012		960 × 480 (311 bytes)	AnonMoos	simplify
	07:34, 19 March 2012		960 × 480 (600 bytes)	Wright.one	Tiny code doesn't mean it can pass W3C online validator
	01:18, 19 March 2012		960 × 480 (469 bytes)	Fry1989	there was nothing wrong and it had smaller code
	00:24, 19 March 2012		960 × 480 (600 bytes)	Wright.one	fixed validation warnings
	00:23, 19 March 2012	No thumbnail	960 × 480 (600 bytes)	Wright.one	fixed validation warnings
	20:19, 13 September 2006		960 × 480 (469 bytes)	Madden	recode after http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/to.html#const
	08:38, 8 February 2006		1,000 × 500 (4 KB)	Denelson83	Dimensions rounded off
	22:50, 24 November 2005		992 × 496 (3 KB)	Nightstallion	Flag of Tonga from the [http://openclipart.org/ Open Clip Art] website. {{PD-OpenClipart}} Category:SVG flags