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'Finnish' flag of Aaland Islands (Finland)

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['Finnish' flag of the Åland Islands] image by Jan Oskar Engene

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History of the flag

When preparing a design for adoption in the early 1950s, one of the alternative designs was the flag of Finland with an extra yellow cross in the middle.

Source: Erik Tudeer and Lars-Øyvind Liljestrom: Ålands flagga, Mariehamn: Nordens Institut på Åland, 1994, ISBN: 952-90-5534-X (40 pages, 10 colour illustrations mostly of proposed designs)
Jan Oskar Engene, 22 October 1995