From Collins Gem Guide to Flags, 1986.

flags

Format

A data frame with 194 observations on the following 30 variables.

  1. name: Name of the country concerned

  2. landmass: 1=N.America, 2=S.America, 3=Europe, 4=Africa, 4=Asia, 6=Oceania

  3. zone: Geographic quadrant, based on Greenwich and the Equator; 1=NE, 2=SE, 3=SW, 4=NW

  4. area: in thousands of square km

  5. population: in round millions

  6. language: 1=English, 2=Spanish, 3=French, 4=German, 5=Slavic, 6=Other Indo-European, 7=Chinese, 8=Arabic, 9=Japanese/Turkish/Finnish/Magyar, 10=Others

  7. religion: 0=Catholic, 1=Other Christian, 2=Muslim, 3=Buddhist, 4=Hindu, 5=Ethnic, 6=Marxist, 7=Others

  8. bars: Number of vertical bars in the flag

  9. stripes: Number of horizontal stripes in the flag

  10. colours: Number of different colours in the flag

  11. red: 0 if red absent, 1 if red present in the flag

  12. green: same for green

  13. blue: same for blue

  14. gold: same for gold (also yellow)

  15. white: same for white

  16. black: same for black

  17. orange: same for orange (also brown)

  18. mainhue: predominant colour in the flag (tie-breaks decided by taking the topmost hue, if that fails then the most central hue, and if that fails the leftmost hue)

  19. circles: Number of circles in the flag

  20. crosses: Number of (upright) crosses

  21. saltires: Number of diagonal crosses

  22. quarters: Number of quartered sections

  23. sunstars: Number of sun or star symbols

  24. crescent: 1 if a crescent moon symbol present, else 0

  25. triangle: 1 if any triangles present, 0 otherwise

  26. icon: 1 if an inanimate image present (e.g., a boat), otherwise 0

  27. animate: 1 if an animate image (e.g., an eagle, a tree, a human hand) present, 0 otherwise

  28. text: 1 if any letters or writing on the flag (e.g., a motto or slogan), 0 otherwise

  29. topleft: colour in the top-left corner (moving right to decide tie-breaks)

  30. botright: Colour in the bottom-left corner (moving left to decide tie-breaks)

Source

Creators: Collected primarily from the "Collins Gem Guide to Flags": Collins Publishers (1986).

Donor: Richard S. Forsyth 8 Grosvenor Avenue Mapperley Park Nottingham NG3 5DX 0602-621676

Details

This data file contains details of various nations and their flags. In this file the fields are separated by spaces (not commas). With this data you can try things like predicting the religion of a country from its size and the colours in its flag.

10 attributes are numeric-valued. The remainder are either Boolean- or nominal-valued.

References

Forsyth's PC/BEAGLE User's Guide.

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/{dataset endpoint}

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/{dataset endpoint}