Red, white, and blue and not only the most popular individual colors, but they're also the most popular colors in combination with each other. According to Wikipedia, there are over 30 countries and territories with red, white, and blue flags:
Australia 
Cambodia 
Chile 
Cook Islands 
Costa Rica 
Cuba 
Croatia 
Czech Republic 
Dominican Republic 
Faroe Islands 
Fiji 
France 
Iceland 
Laos 
Liberia 
Luxembourg 
Nepal 
Netherlands 
New Zealand 
North Korea 
Norway 
Panama 
Paraguay 
Puerto Rico 
Russia 
Samoa 
Sint Maarten 
Slovakia 
Slovenia 
Taiwan 
Thailand 
United Kingdom 
United States
via Geekosystem
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Hmm; but those are apparently not all exactly the same red and blue, which raises the question of how different reds were deemed to be sufficiently similar to be treated as the "same" popular red instead of one of the various other narrower lower bands of red...?
Russ, apparently he used an algorithm that sampled pixel colors from an online display of international flags on a CIA website. It seems like some of the blues and reds are similar....but different.
Thanks for the answer, James!
Trying to group "similar" colors together reminds me of your June 13 entry "Mapping Color Names", and stuff I've read about how different people and different cultures/languages view and name colors differently.
I once read an interview with a well known illustrator [..wish I could remember who..] who said sometimes for inspiration he would look at a book with pictures of all the national flags of the world.I TOTALLY got it .I remember as a kid enjoying the same thing,also akin to looking at a stamp collection.
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