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Denado wrote:

The union jack is solely a combination of England's red cross on white background and Scotland's white saltire on blue background to represent the personal union of the two kingdoms. Ireland and Wales are not actually intended to be represented on it.

I see. I know (from playing Empire: Total War actually) that an earlier version of the flag did not have red stripes inside in the diagonal white stripes taken from the Scottish flag, so I always assumed that those particular red stripes somehow represented Wales and/or Ireland...

Edit: I mean this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Great_Britain?wprov=sfla1