Four small crosses surround the large cross on Georgia’s national flag.
Georgia’s flag has a large red cross centered on a white field, with one smaller red Bolnisi—or bolnur-katskhuri—cross in each of the four corners. Together, the five crosses give the flag its common nickname: the Five Cross Flag.
The present design was officially reinstated in 2004 after becoming a prominent symbol of Georgia’s national revival and the Rose Revolution. Parliament adopted it on 14 January 2004, and the design was formally endorsed by presidential decree later that month.
The symbolism is sometimes explained as Christ and the Four Evangelists, or as the Five Holy Wounds, but those interpretations are not the same as the flag’s formal geometric description. The small crosses are often confused with stars or counted as part of the central cross. The answer is four because only the corner crosses surround the single large central cross.