Five crosses are shown on Georgia’s national flag.
The design has one large red cross extending across the white field and four smaller red Bolnisi—or Bolnur-Katskhuri—crosses, one in each quarter. Counting the central cross and the four corner crosses gives five, which is why the flag is widely known as the Five-Cross Flag.
The current flag was adopted by Georgia’s Parliament on 14 January 2004 and formally endorsed by presidential decree later that month. Its revival was closely connected with the Rose Revolution and the country’s post-Soviet national revival, although the five-cross composition has medieval precedents.
The five crosses are sometimes interpreted as Christ and the Four Evangelists or as the Five Holy Wounds. Those are symbolic interpretations rather than a separate count. Another common mistake is to count only the four corner crosses or to confuse the Georgian flag with England’s flag, which has just one cross.