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The twelve points of the white sun on the Taiwanese flag represent the twelve hours of the traditional Chinese day and the spirit of unceasing prog...

The Maasai shield and two crossed spears at the center of the Kenyan flag are not merely decorative; they are a direct tribute to the Maasai people...

The four red stars of the Southern Cross on the New Zealand flag are outlined in white to make them visible against the deep navy blue field, a sma...

The French Tricolore's three vertical bands of blue, white, and red were first combined during the French Revolution in 1789 when the red and blue ...

The Norwegian flag's distinctive offset Nordic cross, deep navy blue outlined in white on a vivid red field, contains all five of the other Scandin...

The German flag's three horizontal bands of black, red, and gold trace their origins to the black coats, red facings, and gold buttons of the Lützo...

The European Union Flag stands as a testimant to the hard-won, and still-unfinished dream of a continent that tore itself apart twice in thirty yea...

The Welsh flag's red dragon, Y Ddraig Goch, is the oldest national animal symbol still in use on any national flag in the world. Wales, despite bei...

The American flag is the only national flag in the world that has been officially changed twenty-seven times, each addition of a new star marking t...

The Union Jack is actually a composite of three separate national crosses, the red Cross of St. George for England, the white diagonal Cross of St....

The Swedish flag's distinctive golden yellow Nordic cross on a deep azure blue field has been in use in some form since at least the sixteenth cent...

The Spanish flag features three horizontal stripes of red, yellow, and red, with the yellow stripe being twice the width of each red stripe, and pr...

The Scottish Saltire, a white diagonal cross on a blue field representing Saint Andrew, is generally considered the oldest national flag still in u...

The Puerto Rican flag and the Cuban flag share almost identical designs; both feature a triangle at the hoist and alternating stripes, but with the...

The Dutch flag is widely recognized as the world's oldest tricolor, its red, white, and blue horizontal bands serving as the direct inspiration for...

The eagle devouring a serpent on a cactus at the center of the Mexican flag depicts the precise vision that, according to Aztec legend, the god Hui...

The flag of Italy pulses with the beauty, genius, and overwhelming cultural abundance of the nation that gave the world the Renaissance, the Roman ...

The Israeli flag's two blue horizontal stripes on white were deliberately designed to evoke the tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl, with the Star of D...

The Irish flag's three vertical bands of green, white, and orange were designed to represent the two main traditions of the island, green for the C...

The flag of India represents the world's largest democracy, the world's oldest living civilization, and one of the most extraordinarily diverse and...

The Greek flag carries the full, staggering weight of the civilization that invented democracy, philosophy, theater, the Olympic Games, and the fou...

The Egyptian flag, with the Eagle of Saladine in Gold at its center, represents a nation whose recorded history stretches back five thousand years,...

The Danish flag is so loved, and so inseparable from Danish identity that the Danes have a word, flagdag, for the specific, cherished joy of seeing...

The flag of Cyprus is pure white, bearing a warm copper-orange silhouette of the island itself above two crossed olive branches in green. It carrie...