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Post your favorite flags ITT. I like flags with eagles on them. They're really a noble bird.
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This is my favorite French flag.
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While we're at it, what's the historical reason for this?
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>>343411
I really like the flag of the Republic of China.
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>>343411
>black
>kickass eagle
>RIP Preussen
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>>343411
E A G L E
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>>343422
American/French meme
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Pretty flag

>Shoots Maximiliano
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>>343411
eagles
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>>343776
Is that a fancy version of the Mexican flag?
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>>343411
I un-ironically like the southern cross
Its one of my faveroite cross flags.

Im a collector btw, even tho most if my flags are cheap pressed shit.
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>>345078
It's the flag of the Mexican 'empire'
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God tier flag.
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pretty neato
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>>343800
Based. Why did they took it down? Butthurt Republitards?
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will start posting a few of my favorites
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>>346186
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>>346206
finding these is a bitch
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>>346172
It's the catholic king's eagle of Saint John, but it was put in the flag by Franco and therefore associated with him. It's a no-no now, Franco ruined it like Hitler ruined swastikas.
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>>343411
The greatest.
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>>343776
Maximiliano literally did nothing wrong
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I think the old flag of the Republic of China looks pretty cool. Like an East Asian equivalent of the European tricolor flags.
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>>346484
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>>346484
More like the east asian equivalent of the gay flag
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>>346484
It's like if the Olympic Rings lacked all creativity.
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>>343768
dosent explain the countless others in europe and abroad?
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>>346227
this so much, also tectunic order
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>>346227
The greatestest
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If you don't think this flag is great you deserve to have your head cut off.
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>>346830
lmao smallest empire ever
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I fucking love Hong Kong for some raisin.
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>>343422
When nation states started becoming a thing and started picking flags a lot of the most significant countries in the world had red, white and blue flags.

>UK
>France
>USA
>Russia
>Portugal

So they just went with that.
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>>343411
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>>347291
This is the flag of history in the making
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>>347137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KcJTP8nW8
mah nigga
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>>346484
it somehow feels impressively chinese to me
but seriously this flag would be a meme lgbt flag if china adopts it now
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>>347300
Kurds wont go much further against ISIS outside of Kurdish areas. They have no reason to remove ISIS kebab further south after Kurdistan is liberated. Stop posting this meme that Kurds actually want to fix the mess the dumb Arabs and Turks started.
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Texas represent.
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>>347300
You know that a group of Kurds declared a jihad 4 years ago? You know that Saudi human rights groups come to Kurdistan to donate food under the name of Sunni Islam just to grow Islamic political parties there? You know that Kurds pay Christians to open bars so they don't get in trouble because they're Muslims and then Islamic Kurds burn them down? This Jihad was the result of all that.

Kurdshits will never evolve.
https://youtu.be/eQKoWlaPam8
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>>343411
If only archduke Franz lived... If only...
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What's the story behind this one?
I really like it since it deviates from the typical red white and blue
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>>343736

Five Races was GOAT Chinese flag.
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>>343411
>>347908
Mah negroes
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>>347905
House of Orange-Nassau established, and was the dynasty of every Stadholder of the Dutch Republic. So may as well make the flag a bit orange.

The flag in whole is a variant of the red white and blue colours which are historically associated with the low counties long before it was ever independent.
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Have you guys seen this proposed flag of earth? Shit is lame as fuck.
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>>347942
Who proposed that travesty?
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Great flag great anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PpvxMoMeTQ
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>>347945
From Wikipedia

In May 2015 a Swedish artist, Oskar Pernefeldt,[13] formally proposed the International Flag of the Planet Earth.[14] It was conceived to be used in space expeditions and it has two main purposes:

To be used while representing planet Earth.
To remind the people of Earth that we share this planet, no matter of national boundaries. That we should take care of each other and the planet we live on.
The creators predict that it will be eventually used in Mars landing in 2025 or in a future colony on that planet. The design of the flag consists of seven rings intersecting each other and a deep-blue-sea in the background. The rings are centered on the flag forming a flower in the middle, representing life on Earth. The intersection of the rings represent that all things on Earth are linked directly or indirectly. The rings are organized in a Borromean rings–like fashion,[citation needed] representing how no part of Earth can be removed without the whole structure collapsing. Finally, the deep-blue represents the ocean and the importance of water for life on Earth.
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>>347300
>mfw kurds suddenly think we'll give them a country to fuck up now
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>>347954
I actually really like this one.
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>>347961
Here's hoisted, looks much better that way.
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>>347961
That one is way better. Simple, easy to understand and not gay looking.
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>>347966
Those two flags are pretty different family. The second is better.
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>>343416
It's shit and gay, this is the only proper royal French flag.
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>>347966
Awful, the illuminated parts of the Earth and Moon aren't even aligned with the sun.
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>>347979
Ha, you're right. Now it just looks bad.
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>>347942
How would you guys design the earth flag?
I would make it red and put a skull on it. You know, so aliens don't think we are pussies.
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>>348022
How would aliens know what a human skull looks like mouth breather?
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>>348045
Through the thousands of wars we start with them. Duh
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for real. it's simple, colors are powerful, has enough contrast and is just visually pleasant. it's perfect.
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>>348056
>Red and black with a bit of white
>Visually pleasant

It's good as a battle flag because it looks aggressive as hell and it fits Nazi Germany well because they were, you know, expansionist and aggressive, but it's not a good "normal" flag.
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>>347961
>>347966
What's the deal with the Anarcho-Capitalist colors?
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>>348377
Really?
Yellow is the Sun.
Blue is the Earth.
Black is the Space.
White is the Moon.
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>>348056
>>348189
When I see that flag, all I can think about is how it's possible that supposedly no one in the Nazi regime thought that such an aggressive flag wouldn't scream "we're the badguys!" to every other government in the world.
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>>348398
You forget that all Germans are autistic
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>>348396
Pretty sure it's just an ancap flag that someone has painted two balls on.
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>>346172
To reconcile both sides of the war for a pluralist democracy
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>>347947
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>>347942
I hope aliens invade us soon after if we ever unify the planet and get this flag.
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>>347300
>kebab removal
>they're kebab themselves
>red kebab to make it worst
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>>346800
No, the prime virtue of the cross of Burgundy is being a sober flag, the eagle and the shield kinda break this.
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>>348422
That's brilliant
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I like this
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"Houston, this is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed."

First man on the Moon.
Damn fine mission, damn fine patch.
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>>347942
I like the design, but it should be the flag of humanity, not earth. Why would a planet need a flag?
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>>343411

Texas
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>>348398
Revolutionary movements tend to use somewhat martial aesthetics to pronounce that "us against them" mentality. Soviet symbolism doesn't exactly look like calm and peaceful, either.
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the best
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Angolan flag is honestly well done
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>>343422
that depends
many flags are based on historical coats of arms for example (like the original czech flag, flag of poland and so on)
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This one if only because it has an unusual color scheme for a big country.
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>>348637
That bear looks frustrated as fuck.
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>>348650
It's not that unusual - it just comes from the Russian CoA.
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>>348637
glorious
a bear wresting with the atomic forces of nuclear energy
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>>346791
What is the meaning behind the Moor's head motif?
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can we post ugly flags too?
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>>348577
>>348398
Germans were a marshal people back then. The death's head etc., were remnants of Prussia. This was a continuation of that marshal culture.
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>>348594
it's the most complicated flag that I love
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>>348699
Looks like a fruit packaging company logo
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>>348699
Have you ever been so irrelevant you had to write the country's name on the flag for people to recognize it?
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>>348699
Any US state flag that looks like pic related.
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>>343411

Not historical but this is one of the final four designs of the proposed new flag for New Zealand.
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>>349407
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>>347974
vive le roi
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>>348409
Yeah, just like this is the Italian flag and someone just painted orange over red.
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>>345164
I hate the negative connotation it has, because it's a sharp looking flag. If I didn't live in the north and hated everything it stands for I would fly it.
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>>349410
What's the point of these horseshit filters, the flag looks like Lenin wiped his ass with it.
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>>348422
Kek'd
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>>349447
Top kek.
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Flag of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, which was a thing for like two months.

Awesome flag tho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Northern_Epirus#
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Flag of the Republic of Ezo, a secessionist republic established by pro-Shogunate samurai and French military advisors after the Boshin war.

Which lasted six months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo#
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Flag of the Republic of Formosa, a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing Dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan, and its invasion and occupation by Japanese troops.

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basedest
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>>349636
East Asia used to have some really fancy flags
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Not a national flag per se, but it's certainly striking
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Shittiest flag so far
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If Estonia joined the Nordic countries
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