Which National Flags Make the Top 30 Coolest List?

[kasse]

Top 30 Coolest National Flags

What do you think? Here's my list:

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[cristo]

I agree with your top spot

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Wait, this should go in the vexillology forum. By the way...

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   (corrected per Chi Meson)
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[CaptainQuasar]

I'm a USian but I must admit having always liked the look of the Union Jack. I used to doodle it in school when I was a child.

If the Bhutan dragon and the Welsh dragon had a fight, who would win?

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[Chi Meson]

Nepal,

but the proper shape is like http://xnepali.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/national_flag_of_nepal.jpg

 

[kasse]

I think maybe the Welsh, but I didn't include it because Wales is not an independent country.

 

[binzing]

I've always liked Kenya's and one of my other favs (I THINK) is Swaziland.

 

[binzing]

Ah, didn't see that, yeah, I stand by Swaziland's...

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Well anyways, here's Kenya's since we're talking about it:

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[fourier jr]

doesn't anybody like Libya's? That one's pretty cool! (except Canada's is cooler) Actually the first one I thought of even before I clicked on this thread was Wales' (already posted). Is Canada's the only one with an optical illusion built in though?

 

[out of whack]

No, the coolest is the Isle of Man's flag:

Come on, three (3) legs. How cool is that!? From the land of the tailless cats.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Antarctica

 

[binzing]

Manx people just got EVEN WEIRDER to me...

 

[kasse]

Man is fantastic, and it would definitely included it if it were an independent coutry. I like Kenya too.

 

[kasse]

Is Canada's the only one with an optical illusion built in though?

I can't see any...

 

[kasse]

I ended up with Norway as a representative of the Nordic countries, but I could just as well have picked Iceland.

http://www.combinedendeavor.net/sites/combinedendeavor.net/files/images/370px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.thumbnail.png
http://news.parttimepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/large_flag_of_finland.thumbnail.gif
http://www.goldenline.brickweb.co.uk/images/pictures/debbie/iceland-flag-(thumbnail).gif

 

[fourier jr]

I can't see any...

it's like the figure-ground illusion, usually done with a vase:

except there's a maple leaf instead of a vase. the zigzag of the maple leaf makes a brow, eyes, nose, upper & lower lip & mouth on each side. & they're also on a 45 degree angle, unlike the vase llusion.

 

[binzing]

Ooh, i see it, i think. Look at the top point of the leaf that's how i see it...

 

[mgb_phys]

it's like the illusion with the vase & two faces, except there's a maple leaf instead of a vase. the zigzag of the maple leaf makes a brow, eyes, nose, upper & lower lip & mouth on each side.

It represents english and french Canadians arguing over the country!

 

[Cyrus]

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/large_flag_of_iran.gif

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/large_flag_of_iraq.gif

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/large_flag_of_syria.gif

http://www.tofocus.info/images/flags/cuba-flag.gif

I win.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

My favorites (from those not yet mentioned):
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[binzing]

LOL...Cyrus...ah...

Anybody know if there's a reason WHY all the Scandinavian flags are similar?

 

[binzing]

Forgot albania, that's a good one.

 

[fourier jr]

these ones are cool because they're impossible. the star would have to be between the Earth & the Moon!

...but Turkey's is possible:

 

[Pyrrhus]

BEST FLAG EVER!

http://www.worldclassflags.com/productimages/cf_dominicanrep.gif

 

[mgb_phys]

Anybody know if there's a reason WHY all the Scandinavian flags are similar?

They became nations about the same time they got a dose of christianity. They also owned/conquered each other andswapped rulers over the years.

Their previous flags were probably a lot cooler. A dismboweled saxon on a background of disemboweled saxons!

 

[CaptainQuasar]

these ones are cool because they're impossible. the star would have to be between the Earth & the Moon!

That's what I always think! http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/lol.gif

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[CaptainQuasar]

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/07/terrorist_organization_logos.html" did a rather interesting overview of the logos of terrorist organizations. A repeated theme is a hand holding an AK-47. Here's Hezbollah for example:

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[mgb_phys]

As does the flag of Mozambique

 

[CaptainQuasar]

I ended up with Norway as a representative of the Nordic countries, but I could just as well have picked Iceland.

Don't forget England too:

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