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  • 2019-02-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Was the World's Largest U.S. Flag Displayed at Hoover Dam? (en)
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  • A standard U.S. flag is approximately 3 feet tall by 5 feet in dimensions, but the world's largest U.S. flag is approximately 100 times that size. In order to get a better sense of the sheer size of that gigantic national display, here's an image supposedly showing the largest United States flag unfurled in front of Hoover Dam: This is a genuine photograph of a giant flag hanging front of Hoover Dam, taken on 1 May 1996. This flag, which measures 505 by 255 feet and weighs approximately 3,000 pounds, was unfurled before the Olympic Torch was carried across Hoover Dam in conjunction the 1996 Summer Olympic Games: At the time, this flag -- dubbed Superflag by its owner Tom Ski Demski -- was the largest flag in the world. Here's an excerpt from a report about it published by the Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on 28 August 1996: Superflag was the world's largest flag (and in turn the largest U.S. flag) when it was unfurled at Hoover Dam in 1996. Since then, however, larger flags have been created in other countries. As of this writing, the Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest flag at 101,978 m2 (a record set in Qatar in 2013). However, Superflag likely still holds the record for largest U.S. flag. The Guinness Book of World Records doesn't take country into account for its various largest flag records, so it currently includes no listed record for largest U.S. flag. However, we have not been able to find any reports of a U.S. flag superseding the Superflag in size. The Superflag website states that while this flag is no longer the biggest in the world, it still remains the largest American flag in the world. (en)
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