What is Flag of Dominican Republic?
[[File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg|right|thumb|250px|[[Image:FIAV 011011.svg|23px]] State/war flag, ratio: 5:8]] The [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]] [[Constitution]] says that the '''[[flag]] of the [[Dominican Republic]]''' has a [[white]] [[cross]] in the centre; the arms of the cross get to the sides of the flag and divides the flag into four [[rectangle]]s —the left rectangles are [[blue]] (top) and [[red]] (bottom), and the right ones are [[red]] (top) and [[blue]] (bottom). The width of the white cross is half the height of one of the rectangles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/DomRep/domrep02.html|title=Constitución Política de la República Dominicana de 2002|author=Asamblea Nacional|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-09-20}}</ref> The National Flag, like the state and war flags of other [[Latin America]]n countries, has a small [[coat of arms]] in the centre of the white cross but there is not a coat of arms in the [[flag|ensign]] (the flag used by commercial [[ship]]s). The Dominican flag was created the first day of Independence (27 February [[1844]]); it was created from the [[Haiti]]an flag<ref>{{cite web | last =Martucci | first =Dave | title =Historical flags of the Dominican Republic | date =1999 | url = http://flagspot.net/flags/do_hist.html | accessdate =2007-09-20 }}</ref> but with a white cross; that is, two blue rectangles on the top and two red rectangles on the bottom. The colors are from the [[France|French]] flag. That was the ''First National Flag''. The first Dominican [[Constitution]] of 6 November [[1844]] did not say anything about the distribution of the rectangles but from the start the flag was represented with alternation of the colors (that is, blue and red on top and red and blue on bottom);<ref>{{cite book | last =Matos González | first =Ramiro | title =La Bandera y el Escudo Dominicano | publisher =Editora Corripio | date =1996 | location =Santo Domingo | pages =277–280 | language = Spanish }}</ref> this is the ''Second National Flag''. On