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The [[Unitit Kinrick|Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland]] uises as its naitional banner the ryal banner kent locally as the '''Union Banner''' or, popularly, '''Union Jack''' <ref>Hansard Fourth Series Volume CXCII (192) pages 579-580 ''- formal announcement by the House of Lords''</ref> (awtho this name is the ane that is richt whan the banner is flewn on a [[jackstaff]] at sea)<ref>[http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3649 Royal Navy: Ship's Badges and Flags] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510014835/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3649 |date=2008-05-10 }}, see ''Union Flag''</ref>. The current design o the Union Flag dates frae the [[Act o Union 1800|union o Ireland an Great Breetain]] in 1801. It conseests o the [[St George's Cross|reid cross]] o [[Saunt George]] ([[patron saunt]] o [[Ingland]]), skirtit in white, happin the [[Saunt Patrick's Flag|diagonal reid cross]] o [[Saunt Patrick]] (patron saunt o [[Ireland]]), that's happin the [[Saltire]] o [[Saunt Andra]] (patron saunt o [[Scotland]]). The banner represents the three kintras o the [[Breetish Croun]], [[Scotland]], [[Ingland]], [[Northren Ireland]]. [[Wales]] isna represent in the Union Banner syne she comes unner the [[Prince o Wales]] raither nor the Breetish Monarch. [[Scotland]] is represent by the [[St. Andra]]'s Cross, Ingland by the [[St. George]]'s Cross an [[Northren Ireland]] by the [[St. Patrick]]'s Cross (oreeginally tae represent the hail o Ireland afore the pairtition).

== References ==

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[[Category:Breetish Empire]]
[[Category:Banners o the Unitit Kinrick]]
[[Category:Naitional banners|Unitit Kinrick]]
[[Category:Naitional seembols o the Unitit Kinrick]]
[[Category:Banners o Northren Ireland]]
[[Category:Naitional seembols o Canadae]]
[[Category:Unionism in the Unitit Kinrick]]
[[Category:1801 introductions]]

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