Canadian pale
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In vexillology and heraldry, a Canadian pale is the centre of a flag that is a square or rectangle covering half the length of a flag rather than a rectangle covering a third as in a tricolour. It is named after the Canadian flag, which is the most prominent flag to have such a feature. No other national flag has a Canadian pale, but a number of sub-national and municipal flags use it, especially in Canada. For instance the cities of Cornwall, Ontario and Burlington, Ontario and the Canadian Northwest Territories all feature a Canadian pale on their flags.
Occasionally, the term is used to refer to any flag with a larger central panel, irrespective of wherther or not it is square or covers half the flag. By this looser description, the flag of Norfolk Island is sometimes considered to have a Canadian Pale.
By analogy, any flag which has a central horizontal stripe that is half the width of the flag is sometimes said to have a Spanish fess.he:שטח בהיר קנדי