r/vexillology • u/Bipolar03 • 1d ago
Discussion Anyone got any others
It's just for fun
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u/b___p 1d ago
Netherlands and Luxembourg
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u/kotobaWa5ivestar 1d ago
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u/According_Most2914 1d ago
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u/Numbered-asa-Hashtag 1d ago
Hungary ๐ญ๐บ Tajikistan ๐น๐ฏ is a good one
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u/Dinkleberg2845 1d ago edited 1d ago
Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ, Iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ, Yemen ๐พ๐ช
Jordan ๐ฏ๐ด, Palestine ๐ต๐ธ, UAE ๐ฆ๐ช
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u/ma3ts 1d ago
In the overlap of both those lists: Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ
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u/Dinkleberg2845 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sudan looked at all the other Arab countries' flags and thought "you know what would really mess with people's heads?"
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u/Creamcups Nepal 1d ago
They're all based on the flag of the Arab Revolt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Arab_Revolt
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u/Sea_Kangaroo826 1d ago
Except from one of Gertrude Bell's letters to her father:
"We then spent a happy hour discussing (a) our desert frontier to south and west and (b) the national flag and Faisal's personal flag. For the latter we arranged provisionally this [sketch] i.e. the Hijaz flag with a gold crown on the red triangle. The red I must tell you is the colour of his house so he bears his own nom on it. Father, do for Heaven's sake tell me whether the Hijaz flag is heraldically right. You might telegraph. It's a very good flag and we could differentiate it for the Iraq by putting a gold star on the black stripe or the on the red triangle. The Congress will settle it directly it meets - do let me know in time."
https://gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/l/gb-1-1-2-1-17-29 (Excerpt is on Page 8)
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u/PizzaWithMincedMeat 1d ago
I'll be honest, these are the flags I mix up the most
Even more than Chad/Romania..
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u/theOhadyssey 1d ago
Nicaragua ๐ณ๐ฎ El Salvador ๐ธ๐ป Honduras ๐ญ๐ณ
I guess you can also add Argentina ๐ฆ๐ท here
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u/happyboiiA 1d ago
I thought no one thought about this and I was the only one so I also said the same thing with ๐ฌ๐น guatemala too
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u/sam261291 1d ago edited 1d ago
Belgrano Flag Family : ๐ฆ๐ท๐จ๐ท๐ญ๐ณ๐ฌ๐น๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐พ
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u/thrawn-away 1d ago
Cuba ๐จ๐บ, Puerto Rico ๐ต๐ท
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u/maroonmartian9 1d ago
Philippines somewhat lol. ๐ต๐ญ
We were the prizes for the Spanish American War lol
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u/NeuroQubits 1d ago
Indonesia ๐ฎ๐ฉ Monaco ๐ฒ๐จ Poland ๐ต๐ฑ
Hungary ๐ญ๐บ Iran ๐ฎ๐ท Tajikistan ๐น๐ฏ
Cรดte d'Ivoire ๐จ๐ฎ Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
Italy ๐ฎ๐น Mexico ๐ฒ๐ฝ
Serbia ๐ท๐ธ Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ Russia ๐ท๐บ
Guinea ๐ฌ๐ณ Mali ๐ฒ๐ฑ Senegal ๐ธ๐ณ
Jordan ๐ฏ๐ด Palestine ๐ต๐ธ Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Chicago 1d ago
Slovenia/Slovakia is a close one. The embassies often need to forward each other's mail.
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u/agmilky 1d ago
It probably doesn't help that "Slovakia" is called "Slovensko" in Slovakian xD
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u/TheCashWasher 1d ago
Fun fact: During the first few months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Slovenian embassy in Kyiv took down its flag, fearing that it would be mistaken for the Russian flag.
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u/chipichipisu 1d ago
Colombia ๐จ๐ด is closer to the Ecuadorian ๐ช๐จ flag
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u/Hawkito 1d ago
Argentina๐ฆ๐ท, El Salvador๐ธ๐ป, Nicaragua๐ณ๐ฎ, Honduras๐ญ๐ณ
Also formerly the Federal Republic of Central America (1824-1840)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_America
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u/FlohEinstein 1d ago
Switzerland and Austria. One is a plus, the other a minus. ๐
๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐น
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u/Icy_Needleworker5571 1d ago
And if you combine the two, you get Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ
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u/Priyotosh1234 1d ago edited 1d ago
Aland Islands ๐ฆ๐ฝ and Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ / Faroe Islands ๐ซ๐ด and England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ / Curaรงao ๐จ๐ผ and Nauru ๐ณ๐ท / Philippines ๐ต๐ญ and Sint Maarten ๐ธ๐ฝ and Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk Portugal 1d ago
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u/realspicelord United Kingdom / Maryland 1d ago
Iโd throw out there Greece//Uruguay ๐ฌ๐ท ๐บ๐พ
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u/InFinnIte_Reddit 1d ago
Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ
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u/Random_Reddit99 1d ago
I can't believe this is so far down...and add the French ๐ซ๐ท, especially when one or the other is hanging vertically.
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u/caife_agus_caca 1d ago
We should make Monaco, Poland and Indonesia all pick their favourite shape, then do that little colour reversal trick that Greenland did (circle is already taken).
๐ฒ๐จ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ฑ
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u/AustraKaiserII 1d ago
๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ธ๐ฐ๐พ๐ฒ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ณ๐ธ๐ญ๐น๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ป๐ฌ I can't be bothered naming them
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u/7_11_Nation_Army 1d ago
Reminds me of that porn meme with the girl and the row of black guys in white tshirts behind her.
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u/happyboiiA 1d ago
Ahh these are all carribbean's and Oceania countries mix ig although don't know about that yellow one any idea...?
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u/Ronald-Reagan-1991 Libya (1977) 1d ago
Iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ EGYPT ๐ช๐ฌ YEMEN ๐พ๐ช SUDAN ๐ธ๐ฉย
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u/Willing-Corgi-6607 1d ago
Somalia ๐ธ๐ด Vietnam ๐ป๐ณ
Sierra Leone ๐ธ๐ฑ Uzbekistan ๐บ๐ฟ
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u/7_11_Nation_Army 1d ago
It's weird how differently I perceive those because of the region they are in. If I hadn't seen them side by side, I would have never fuessed Sierra Leone had almost the same flag as Uzbekistan, and I know both flags.
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u/Ncaak 1d ago
Colombian and Ecuador. Both are similar to Venezuela and in fact both are more alike because their shields are roughly following the same format and at distance might seem the same because of the Condor that both depict.
Colombia rarely is shown with it's shield so it could be in that format more similar than Ecuador to Venezuela.
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u/BreeZee_01 1d ago
๐ฒ๐จ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฑ
This has to be my favourite set of 5 flags. Monaco, Singapore, Indonesia, Poland, Greenland for anyone wondering.
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u/BreeZee_01 1d ago
And yes, Iโm aware some of these were mentioned above, but putting them all together is funny!
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u/RealmKnight New Zealand 1d ago
Japan/Palau? ๐ฏ๐ต๐ต๐ผ
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u/earthbound-pigeon 1d ago
Palau is slightly to the side, Japan and Bangladesh would maybe fit better? But even so, Bangladesh is also slightly to the side, just a little less than what Palau is.
Also fun tidbit: it's the moon on Palau's flag, not the sun like Japan.
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u/LaunchHillCoasters 1d ago
Senegal ๐ธ๐ณ and Cameroon ๐จ๐ฒ are pretty similar in design. Jordan ๐ฏ๐ด and Palestine ๐ต๐ธ are very similar as well
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u/welkin4 1d ago
Weird that you went Slovenia and Russia instead of Slovenia and Slovakia?
๐ธ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฐ
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u/shamwowj 1d ago
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u/7_11_Nation_Army 1d ago
That's a stretch. The two countries are so far apart nobody could mistakenthem from each other. One was a global superpower, the other one is a redneck backwater.
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u/TabletLover 1d ago
Palestine ๐ต๐ธ and Jordan ๐ฏ๐ด USA ๐บ๐ธ,Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท, and Malaysia ๐ฒ๐พ Austria ๐ฆ๐น, and Latvia๐ฑ๐ป
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u/iligal_odin 1d ago
Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ France ๐ซ๐ท โคด๏ธ
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u/Chairman_Meow55 1d ago
Philippines - ๐ต๐ญ Sint Maarten - ๐ธ๐ฝ
(and the latter looks like the Philippine flag during wartime)
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u/pulanina 1d ago
You missed Singapore from the weird confusion of
- Monaco ๐ฒ๐จ
- Indonesia ๐ฎ๐ฉ
- Poland ๐ต๐ฑ
- Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
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u/Mirabeaux1789 Esperanto / Quebec 1d ago
Norway and Iceland are pretty different looking despite using the same colors, so I donโt think it rises to the level of these other comparisons
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u/happyboiiA 1d ago
๐ธ๐ป el Salvador ๐ณ๐ฎ Nicaragua ๐ญ๐ณ Honduras ๐ฌ๐น Guatemala
I had this on top of my head !!
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u/maureen_leiden 1d ago
Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ, Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ and Serbia ๐ท๐ธ are more confusing together than Russia I guess to me.
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u/Raketka123 Slovakia 1d ago
Slovakia๐ธ๐ฐ Slovenia๐ธ๐ฎ Russia๐ท๐บ
also Belarus๐ง๐พ Madagascar๐ฒ๐ฌ
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u/DeathMetalBunnies Chicago 1d ago edited 1d ago
Okay, but how do you miss Indonesia there.
EDit: Nvm there were WAY more photos to swipe through then I thought...
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u/Alphalivid Miami 1d ago
Miami and India have such a similar design. I know Miami is a city not a country but still
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u/JamozMyNamoz United States / Bisexual 1d ago
Lithuania and Myanmar/Burma are an often forgotten example of this
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u/romulusnr Cascadia / New England 1d ago
Puerto Rico / Cuba
Many of the Arab republics are very similar -- three stripes and perhaps a hoist side triangle, using some combination of black, red, white, green.
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u/muffinhuffinpuffin 1d ago
Slovakia and Slovenia
Luxembourg and Netherlands
Turkey and Tunisia
Austria and Latvia
Bulgaria and Hungary
Honduras and Nicaragua
Palestine and Sudan
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u/Chromograph German East Africa 1d ago
FYI Lichtenstein and Haiti only added their respective symbols on their flags after the 1936 summer olympics when they realised they had the exact same flag
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u/PraiseThePumpkins Iran 1d ago edited 1d ago
fiji ๐ซ๐ฏ tuvalu ๐น๐ป
senegal ๐ธ๐ณ cameroon ๐จ๐ฒ
guinea-bissau ๐ฌ๐ผ benin ๐ง๐ฏ
eritrea ๐ช๐ท azerbaijan ๐ฆ๐ฟ
somalia ๐ธ๐ด micronesia ๐ซ๐ฒ
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u/AdWonderful3935 1d ago
๐ท๐บ๐ท๐ธ ๐บ๐พ๐ฌ๐ท ๐ต๐ธ๐ธ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ป ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช
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u/AbdullahMRiad Egypt / Saudi Arabia 1d ago
Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ
Yemen ๐พ๐ช
Iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ
Syria (formerly) ๐ธ๐พ
Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ
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u/KnuckedLoose 1d ago
Canada ๐จ๐ฆ is not actually Peru ๐ต๐ช.
Canada is 2:1 and Peru is 2:3... be careful out there folks.
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u/Mikhailovv 1d ago
Netherlands๐ณ๐ฑ and Luxembourg๐ฑ๐บ for sure. Netherlands๐ณ๐ฑand Paraguay๐ต๐พ also are similar.
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u/Old-Paper-3932 1d ago edited 1d ago
USA, Liberia, Malaysia
Egypt, Yemen, Iraq
Jordan, UAE, Palestine, Sudan
Switzerland, Denmark
Luxembourg, Netherlands
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Argentina
Hungary, Tajikistan, Iran
Mali, Guinea
Cuba, Puerto Rico
Slovakia, Slovenia
Canada, Peru
Italy, Mexico
Tunisia, Tรผrkiye
Germany, Belgium
Lithuania, Myanmarย
Latvia, Austria
Costa Rica, Thailand
Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan
Chile, Texas
Kazakhstan, Palau
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u/PizzaWithMincedMeat 1d ago
Norway ๐ณ๐ด and Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ are siblings, Faroe Islands ๐ซ๐ดis a somewhat distant cousin
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u/Bronze_Balance 1d ago
Turkey ๐น๐ท Tunisia ๐น๐ณ Armenia ๐ฆ๐ฒ Colombia ๐จ๐ด Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ Cameroun ๐จ๐ฒ Sรฉnรฉgal ๐ธ๐ณ Tadjikistan ๐น๐ฏ Iran ๐ฎ๐ท
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u/AtomicAtom14 1d ago
I know you already did Indonesia but maybe Indonesia ๐ฎ๐ฉ and Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ?
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u/MH-Entity 13h ago
๐ฑ๐นLithuania ๐ง๐ดBolovia ๐ธ๐ณSenegal ๐ฒ๐ฑMali ๐ฎ๐ฒIsle of man ๐ญ๐ฐHongkong
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u/JSarq 1d ago
USA๐บ๐ธ, LIBERIA๐ฑ๐ท, MALAYSIA๐ฒ๐พ