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The origin of the Haitian flag is itself a revolutionary act of breathtaking symbolic power. At the Congress of Arcahaie in 1803, the Haitian revol...

The flag of Guyana, known as the "Golden Arrowhead," was designed by American vexillologist Whitney Smith and adopted upon the country's independen...

The Guatemala flag soars with the ancient Mayan soul, two bold vertical bands of sky blue flanking a pure white center field, bearing at its heart ...

The flag of Guam is a deeply personal design that carries an ancient indigenous spirit and a uniquely complex identity of the largest and southernm...

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

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 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 Finnish flag's deep blue Nordic cross on white was officially adopted in 1918, immediately after independence from Russia, but the blue and whi...

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 flag of England, the Cross of St. George, with its stark two-color design and confidence of a flag that has been carried into battle and flown ...

The Salvadoran flag represents a resilient national spirit of the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, so compact that y...

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

Ecuador contains within its compact borders the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the Avenue of the Volcanoes, and the Pacific coast, stack...

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...

The Cuban flag has meant, at different moments in its history, colonial resistance, revolutionary transformation, Cold War confrontation, and the s...

The Croatian flag, with its fierce Mediterranean spirit and ancient Slavic identity, has at its heart the Croatian checkerboard, the Šahovnica, a p...

The Costa Rican flag features five horizontal stripes of blue, white, red, white, and blue — with the bold red center stripe being twice the width ...

The flag of the People's Republic of China represents the world-reshaping rise of the most populous nation and one of the world's oldest continuous...

The Chilean flag represents a country so narrow and so immense, squeezed between the highest mountain range in the Americas and the deepest ocean t...

The Canadian maple leaf flag was adopted in 1965, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign, which had flown since Confederation. Canada itself holds m...

The Cambodian flag is one of only a few flags in the world to feature a building, the iconic three-towered Angkor Wat temple depicted in white at i...

The Brazilian flag represents the largest country in South America and the fifth largest nation on Earth. A deep blue celestial globe is crossed by...

The flag of Bermuda reflects its complex colonial history and unique island identity, showcasing one of the world's most iconic and unlikely small ...