Red

The flag uses the four Pan-Arab colours: a red bar at the hoist with green, white and black bands. It was designed by a young Emirati, Abdullah Al Maainah, in 1971.

The flag is a black double-headed eagle on red, the banner of the fifteenth-century hero Skanderbeg. Fans chant Kuq e Zi, red and black.

Armenian scribes painted manuscripts with vordan karmir, a crimson dye made from an insect that lives on the roots of grasses in the Ararat plain.

Under Juan Manuel de Rosas in the 1830s and 1840s, everyone had to wear a scarlet ribbon to show loyalty to his Federalist party. His enemies, the Unitarians, were tied to sky blue.

The flag is red, white and red. Legend says Duke Leopold V's white tunic was soaked in blood at the siege of Acre, all but the band under his belt.

Red ochre is used in Aboriginal rock art and ceremony, and is traded over long distances. In the Aboriginal flag the red half stands for the earth and for that ochre.

The flag is a red disc on a green field. The red is read both as the sun rising over Bengal and as the blood of those who died in the 1971 Liberation War.

On Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year in April, women wear white saris with red borders and men wear red and white panjabis for the morning processions.

A Bengali Muslim bride usually marries in a red sari, often a Benarasi or a Jamdani, with gold jewellery.

The national football team is called the Red Devils, a name first used by a journalist in 1906 for the side's red shirts.

On 1 March people give each other martenitsi, small tassels or dolls of red and white thread. They are worn until the first stork or blossoming tree is seen.

The flag is red, yellow and green: red for the blood of the country's soldiers, yellow for its mineral wealth and green for the richness of its land.

Red is the colour of the Workers' Party, founded in 1980, whose symbol is a red star. Its rallies are a sea of red shirts and flags.

A white, red and white flag was the state flag in 1918 and again from 1991 to 1995. It became the banner of the opposition in the protests of 2020.

Red and white are the national colours. The flag, a red maple leaf between two red bars, was adopted in 1965 after a long debate in parliament.

Officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wear the Red Serge, a scarlet tunic with a high collar, on ceremonial duty. It is one of the best known images of the country abroad.

Empty red dresses hung in public places stand for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The idea comes from the REDress Project by the Metis artist Jaime Black.

The flag is a white cross on a red square, one of only two square national flags. The Red Cross emblem is the same design with the colours reversed, in honour of Switzerland.

The copihue, a climbing plant with waxy red bell flowers, is the national flower. The men's football team plays in red and is called La Roja.

The flag is green, red and yellow with a gold star. Green is for the forests of the south, yellow for the sun and savanna of the north, and red for unity.

Red stands for good fortune and happiness. Brides traditionally wear it, doors are hung with red couplets at New Year, and gifts of money come in red envelopes.

The national flag is red with five yellow stars. The red stands for the Communist revolution, and the same red runs through party banners and slogans.

For a century and a half, politics was a contest between the red of the Liberals and the blue of the Conservatives. Their fighting peaked in the years called La Violencia.

The 26th of July Movement, which Fidel Castro led to power in 1959, flew a red and black flag. It still appears beside the national flag on public holidays.

Decorated Easter eggs are called kraslice, a name that comes from an old word for red. Girls give them to boys on Easter Monday.

Red is the colour of the Social Democrats. Coalitions are named by party colours: red, yellow and green make a "traffic light", and black, yellow and green a "Jamaica" coalition.

The flag, the Dannebrog, is a white cross on red. Legend says it fell from the sky during a battle in Estonia in 1219. Danes use it on birthday tables and Christmas trees.

The ancient Egyptians called the desert deshret, the red land. Red was the colour of the god Set, of chaos and of danger, and scribes wrote unlucky words in red ink.

The flag is red, white and black. Red recalls the struggle before the 1952 revolution, white the revolution itself, which was nearly bloodless, and black the end of oppression.

The flag is red and yellow, the rojigualda. The colours were chosen for the navy in 1785 because they stood out at sea, and the men's football team is called La Roja.

In the last part of a bullfight the matador uses a small red cape, the muleta. Bulls do not see red as we do. It is the movement that draws them, and the colour hides the blood.

At the San Fermin festival in Pamplona each July, runners and crowds dress in white with a red neckerchief and red sash.

The red band of the flag is read as the blood shed in defending the country. Ethiopia was never colonised, and its green, yellow and red were taken up by many new African states.

The red Phrygian cap, a soft cap with the tip pulled forward, became the sign of liberty in the Revolution. Marianne, the figure of the Republic, still wears it.

Each November people pin on a red paper poppy to remember those killed in war. The flower grew on the battlefields of Flanders in the First World War.

Red is the colour of the Labour Party, whose symbol is a red rose, and blue the colour of the Conservatives. Election maps are drawn in the two.

Post boxes, telephone kiosks and London buses share a bright red. Post boxes were painted green at first and changed to red from 1874 so that they were easier to find.

The flag has a large red cross on white with four small crosses. It was a medieval banner brought back into use by the opposition and made official in 2004.

At Akan funerals the close family wear red or red and black. Red shows the sharpest grief, and it is often worn when the death was sudden or the person young.

The flag is red, gold and green with a black star. The red is for the blood of those who died in the struggle for independence, won in 1957.

Eggs are dyed red on the Thursday before Easter to stand for the blood of Christ. After the midnight service families crack them against each other.

On 1 March children tie on a martis, a bracelet of twisted red and white thread. It is worn until the end of the month and is said to protect the skin from the spring sun.

The flag is red with a white bauhinia flower. The red matches the flag of China, and the design stands for the formula of one country, two systems.

The red and white chequerboard, the sahovnica, is the heart of the national arms. It covers the shirts of national sports teams.

The flag is blue over red. Tradition says Jean-Jacques Dessalines made it in 1803 by tearing the white band out of the French tricolour.

The flag is red, white and green: red for strength, white for faithfulness and green for hope. On 15 March people pin on a cockade in the three colours.

On Easter Monday boys sprinkle girls with water or perfume and are given painted eggs in return. The classic egg is plain red, piros tojas.

The flag is called Sang Saka Merah Putih, the Red and White. Red is commonly read as courage and white as purity. It was raised at the declaration of independence in 1945.

Some people wear a thin red string around the left wrist against the evil eye. The strings are often said to have been wound around Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem. It is a folk custom.

Many Hindu brides marry in a red sari or lehenga. In much of north India a married woman wears sindoor, a red powder, along the parting of her hair.

On the last Tuesday night before Nowruz, people jump over small bonfires and chant a line that gives their yellow, meaning sickness, to the fire and takes its red, meaning health.

On Yalda, the longest night of the year, families sit up late eating pomegranates and watermelon. The red fruit stands for the glow of dawn and of life.

The red cross in the flag stands for the fire of the island's volcanoes. It was added to an earlier blue and white flag.

It is a custom to wear new red underwear on New Year's Eve for luck and love in the coming year. Shop windows fill with it in December.

Rosso corsa, racing red, was the colour given to Italian cars in early international motor racing. Ferrari kept it, and it is now the colour people expect of the brand.

The red and white checked headcloth, the shemagh, is a mark of Jordanian identity. It was the headdress of the desert patrol and is worn with a black cord.

The torii gates of Shinto shrines are often painted vermilion, a bright orange-red. The colour is held to keep evil away, and the long tunnels of gates at Fushimi Inari are the best known.

Maasai herders wrap themselves in the shuka, a cloth that is most often red. Red stands for bravery and for blood, and is held to frighten off lions.

The flag is black, red and green with white edging and a Maasai shield. The red is for the blood shed in the fight for independence.

The flag is red with a yellow sun. Red is tied to the banner of the epic hero Manas, and the sun's forty rays to the forty tribes he united.