Data Set Information:

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.

Attribute Information:

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)

Relevant Papers:

Forsyth's PC/BEAGLE User's Guide.

Papers That Cite This Data Set¹:

Ron Kohavi and George H. John and Richard Long and David Manley and Karl Pfleger. MLC++: A Machine Learning Library in C. ICTAI. 1994.  [View Context].

George H. John and Ron Kohavi and Karl Pfleger. Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem. ICML. 1994.  [View Context].

Wl/odzisl/aw Duch and Karol Grudzi nski and Grzegorz Stawski. SYMBOLIC FEATURES IN NEURAL NETWORKS. Department of Computer Methods, Nicolaus Copernicus University.  [View Context].

Citation Request:

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Creators:

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

Donor:

Richard S. Forsyth
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Mapperley Park
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