Florida's has a Native American woman standing and waiting for the Spanish galleons to land, rape her and pillage her homestead.

Nepal tried a little something different with the shape:

Nunavut



Ok I gotta stop this now.

Flagalikes:



The State of Maryland




Dazzle Ships, by OMD

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With the Union Jack, I never got why they didn't centralise the diagonal red cross within the diagonal white one. Is there a reason?

It was done so the flag could be inverted to indicate mourning. If St Patrick's cross was centred then it would look exactly the same.

Hang on a mo' ... if you invert it, it's the same - the wide bit of the diagonal white cross is still uppermost. (?)


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Bruno, if you are dissing the California bear flag you will be hearing from my second.

On the other hand, Alabama went for the written symbol that all of its citizens were familiar with:

Hang on a mo' ... if you invert it, it's the same - the wide bit of the diagonal white cross is still uppermost. (?)

Yeah, its confusing. What you're doing when you invert it is turning it over, rather than turning it around. You have to think in 3D instead of 2D. The wide white diagonal at the upper left is replaced by the narrow diagonal at bottom left. It's an extraordinarily clever solution to a tricky design problem.

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Ah! Me thinking in 2D ...

Thanks Amor.

(That's not me being amorous by the way - it's just ... well, you know).


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Serbia, Netherlands & Russia.
Which one is which?

Netherlands

Russia

Serbia

Looking at a flag site there are even more like them. Luxembourg, exactly the same as Netherlands with a slightly lighter shade of blue.

Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Paraguay, Slovakia as well as the original, Netherlands, Russia and Serbia, all have three horizontal stripes in red white and blue.

Red white and blue must be the most popular colour combination by far.

USA, UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Chile, I could go on

Florida's flag has nothing on the seal of the Massachusetts Bay Company seal, surely the apotheosis of colonial white man's burden imagery:

Red white and blue must be the most popular colour combination by far.

It is, although if you look at the all red/green/yellow combos of many African and Caribbean countries they run a respectable second, especially if you kick in the few odd ones from elsewhere.

I thought the Serbian flag had the national Coat of Arms on it? (While Srpska does without.)

The Bosnia flag is interesting in a defiantly asymmetrical way. The divided stars at top and bottom (an infinity of nations) the triangle (Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs — also a stylised map of the country.) Kinda neat. especially the stars.

Also the aspect ratio is a little unusual.

Yes, though quite a few modern flags have gone for the Wide-Screen format. I think it's emphasised because the blue at the right looks like an optional tear-off section (possibly not a good idea for a Balkan nation.)

Bhutan could take Wales:
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