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The Land of Oz is a fantasy world introduced in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Design[]
Flags of Oz are described twice in the Oz books of L. Frank Baum. Given the author's other inconsistencies, it is perhaps not surprising that the two descriptions do not fully agree.
The Oz flag is a rectangle quartered diagonally, resulting in triangular colored fields in the four cardinal directions, or up, down, left, and right - reproducing the general geographic relationship of the four countries of Oz. In the center is the green symbol of the Emerald City. The Oz books, however, do not agree on the color scheme of this basic pattern or on the central symbol.
In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, chapter 17, the four colors in the fields are sky-blue, pink, lavender, and white. The cerullian shade matches the characteristic blue of the Munchkin Country, the lavender the purple of the Gillikin Country, and the pink the red of the Quadling Country; the white would have to correspond to the yellow of the Winkie Country. It sounds as though this first flag had been bleached of its vibrant colors, perhaps through long use. This flag has a green star at its center.[1]
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