r/vexillology 8d ago

Contest August Contest Voting Thread

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/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!


Prompt: Design a flag for a Sea

In this month’s contest, we’re looking for a flag for a sea. We’ve made a curated list of a selection of twenty bodies of water around the world officially classified as “seas” and we want you to make flags to represent them.

We approved 84 entries in the following categories:

# Entries Category
11 Baltic Sea
9 North Sea, Sea of Japan
6 Río de la Plata
5 Beaufort Sea, Caspian Sea, Ross Sea
4 Mozambique Channel, Red Sea
3 Adriatic Sea, Caribbean Sea, Java Sea, Labrador Sea, Tasman Sea
2 Alboran Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Laccadive Sea, Laptev Sea
1 Philippine Sea

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

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r/vexillology 1h ago

Identify What flag is this?

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Found on some alt-right lookin' feller's profile


r/vexillology 19h ago

Identify My next door neighbor has a flag that I can't recognize

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It's a pretty flag, but I did a reverse Google image search, and that was no help. Has been outside waving for the last few days and I've seen my neighbor swap out different flags before and they're all recognizable.


r/vexillology 19h ago

Historical The yappiest flag I've ever seen: the Estonian Workers' Commune.

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636 Upvotes

From Wikipedia:

The Estonian Workers' Commune was a government claiming the Bolshevik-occupied parts of Republic of Estonia as its territories during the Estonian War of Independence and the Russian Civil War. It was recognised as an independent state only by the Russian SFSR, on December 7th, 1918.


r/vexillology 16h ago

Redesigns Wales represented in the Union Flag

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339 Upvotes

r/vexillology 8h ago

Current National museum of the American Indian Tribal flags

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81 Upvotes

Tribal flags at the entrance area of the museum in Washington DC


r/vexillology 3h ago

Historical Any clues on this one?

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Seen in the Wrightington Hotel near Wigan, I asked staff if anyone knows but apparently the owner of the place is a bit of a collector.


r/vexillology 23h ago

OC Madagascar Space Flag

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516 Upvotes

r/vexillology 2h ago

OC Flag for the island of Britain

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5 Upvotes

r/vexillology 1h ago

Current Flag of the Vice Chief of the Army Staff (India)

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A bicolor of red-black-red with three yellow stars in the left side, crossed swords and the State Emblem of India on top and the Indian Army Headquarters insignia in the canton.


r/vexillology 12h ago

Identify What is this flag?

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32 Upvotes

Found in a neighborhood near me in Michigan, USA. Google has no answers even close


r/vexillology 1d ago

Identify Obviously a German flag, but is it a nazi flag?

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Best picture I could get as I was driving. I looked online as I thought it might be a WW1 era German flag, but I didn’t find match. Is it possible it’s a nazi flag?


r/vexillology 2h ago

Identify Anyone know this flag?

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Found at some houses in Soest, Netherlands. I know its not a municipal flag


r/vexillology 3h ago

Current Anarchy Flag found in Delchevo

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5 Upvotes

Posted this photo months ago on r/macedonia when I went to remeet my cousins there. I decided to ”repost” here and now Idk if it’s still up in the specefic area which I’m not allowed to name due to ’privacy reasons’.


r/vexillology 15h ago

Historical 26 August 2004: Elista, the capital city of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, adopts a new flag

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On 26 August 2004 Elista, the capital city of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, adopted a new flag.

The Kalmyks are of Mongolian origin and most are of the Buddhist faith. An official description of the flag's symbolism does not appear to be available, but the flag of Kalmykia also employs blue and yellow, the former symbolising the sky, eternity, and steadiness, and the latter representing the sun, the people and the religious faith of the nation. The charge in the upper hoist of Elista's flag appears to be a sun, symbolising life, generosity, prosperity and happiness; its colour recalls the red tassels worn by the Kalymyks.


r/vexillology 5h ago

Identify Flag seen in Vaasa, Finland

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Earlier this summer I saw this flag in Vaasa, Finland. It was flying at the market square of Palosaari. Does any one know what it is? Flag of Palosaari?


r/vexillology 1d ago

In The Wild I’m so confused by this shirt

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465 Upvotes

r/vexillology 6h ago

Identify Saw this weird flag flying outside my neighbours house

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(No, I am not joking or exaggerating in any way) So I live in rural Alberta and my very old neighbour (hes 89) flew this thing once for ONE HOUR then he took it down. This is my best recreation of it, though I tried talking to him about it. He says he got it from his great uncle though he doesnt really know what it is or what it was even for (couldnt take any pictures, he doesnt really like that). Hopefully anyone could help me like seriously.


r/vexillology 18h ago

Identify What is this flag and why does every boat have it

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55 Upvotes

(Taken in Monaco)


r/vexillology 1d ago

Discussion Anyone got any others

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2.9k Upvotes

It's just for fun


r/vexillology 6h ago

Redesigns Flag of Cambodia, switching the Angkor Wat with the CoA

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5 Upvotes

I know the Angkor Wat is a very important element of Cambodia, but I always wondered how it would look like if it was replaced by de coat of arms, i opened the Flag Maker Jr. Plus, made the flag without the Angkor Wat, downloaded the coat of arms and put in there.


r/vexillology 8h ago

Redesigns Taichung, Taiwan just changed their flag

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The left one is the original, reading "The City of Taichung". The pattern on the new flag is the Emblem of the Taichung City Government, featuring one of the city's most renowned tourist attractions, Taichung Park Pavilion.


r/vexillology 11h ago

Identify Found it at a Silverado restaurant

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yeah it seems like it's ripped idk why


r/vexillology 17h ago

Identify The many flags of this Bob Marley album

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34 Upvotes

Hi everyone. I took this picture last year in a music shop in Manchester. Some flags I recognise, and are easily identifiable, and some I do not. I think its mostly African/Caribbean ones. Are some of these former national flags?


r/vexillology 17h ago

Redesigns Massachusetts Redesign

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Massachusetts is getting a flag redesign and I just wanted to share some of my favorite designs that made it to the second round of voting. You can go to https://www.mass.gov/doc/seal-flag-motto-submissions-2nd-round-commissioner-selections/download To see the rest


r/vexillology 14h ago

OC My design for a Dacian flag

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The Dacians were the people inhabiting today's Romania before the romans conquered them. They mixed with the romans and became today's romanians. This flag represents their main symbol, the Dacian Draco, in the centre of a Dacian swastika, on a St. Andrew's cross, the apostle that made the daco-romans Christian in the 1st century CE.

What do you think?