page_title: Flag of Kentucky
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Flag of Kentucky / Design
context_page_description: The flag of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States, was adopted on March 26, 1918.
context_section_description: The flag consists of the Commonwealth's seal on a navy blue field, surrounded by the words "Commonwealth of Kentucky" above and sprigs of goldenrod, the state flower, below.
  The seal depicts a pioneer and a statesman embracing.  Popular belief claims that the buckskin-clad man on the left is Daniel Boone, who was largely responsible for the exploration of Kentucky, and the man in the suit on the right is Henry Clay, Kentucky's most famous statesman. However, the official explanation is that the men represent all frontiersmen and statesmen, rather than any specific persons.
  In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) surveyed its members on the designs of the 72 Canadian provincial, U.S. state, and U.S. territorial flags; Kentucky's flag was ranked 66th.
caption: Flag of the State of Kentucky as adopted in 1918, before it was revised to include the new flag of 1963 and standardized.