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 8h ago

Identify What flag is this?

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


r/vexillology 5h ago

Redesigns My favorites of the Massachusetts flag redesign finalists

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r/vexillology 1h ago

Discussion I created a new flag for my region, what do you think?

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Here is a new flag that I created for my Charentes region in France which brings together 3 former French provinces (Aunis, Saintonge and Angoumois with the islands of Ré and Oléron in particular). It is also the country of Cognac. The Charente identity is closely linked to its geographical characteristics. This is why the flag that I imagined has a gradient of blues (Ocean, estuaries and river) and a gradient of greens (marshes, agricultural land including vineyards). The white rays recall the sunshine of this region as well as the openness to the world with its Atlantic facade and the influence for centuries beyond the borders with local products such as Cognac in particular. These white rays also evoke the multitude of micro-regions which make up the territory and the nature of the soil which is limestone. What do you think of this flag? Is it credible? How could it be improved?


r/vexillology 2h ago

Fictional People's Republic of Amazon -- Amazon's flag if Amazon embraced central planning as an ideology for some reason

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r/vexillology 6h ago

Identify What flag is this?

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The flag on the right. Found in north Georgia.


r/vexillology 7h ago

Fictional Flag proposal for a united U.S. state of Carolina

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55 Upvotes

The white palmetto tree, the white crescent and the indigo background were taken out of S.C. the white star and the red background are from the N.C. flag


r/vexillology 15h ago

Current National museum of the American Indian Tribal flags

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


r/vexillology 5h ago

Identify Flag ID request - seen in Monaco

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29 Upvotes

Im absolutely stumped and no luck online. Can anyone help?


r/vexillology 3h ago

Current Saudi Arabia Flag Drawing 🇸🇦

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I’m not Muslim and I don’t know Arabic but I tried my best :)


r/vexillology 10h 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 1h ago

Identify What is this flag I found in Italy?

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There wasn’t much wind so I couldn’t get a nice picture of the flag.


r/vexillology 4h ago

Redesigns San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines flag redesign

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r/vexillology 2h ago

Identify What is this flag ?

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This flag is from 1954 Damascus international fair


r/vexillology 1h ago

Fictional The flag of the United Celtic Lands of Cymru and Alba. In the scenario where Ireland re-unifies, and Wales and Scotland abandon England.

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r/vexillology 7h ago

Fictional A question about this Canadian flag variation

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I'm making an alt-history scenario where (among many other things) Canada loses the Maritime provinces to a communist USA, and Quebec becomes an independent nation in an alternate version of WW2. Canada remains capitalist but votes to become a republic and remove the monarchy from power. Could this flag represent that version of Canada? The two bars represent 'from sea to sea' but, since Canada still has access to all of the Great Lakes, could this still be a valid interpretation? Does the number of maple leaves represent any particular thing? The flag is called the 'Pearson Pennant' if you were curious


r/vexillology 1d ago

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

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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 1d 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 23h ago

Redesigns Wales represented in the Union Flag

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415 Upvotes

r/vexillology 3h ago

Current what flag is that? found it on wplace.com

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never seen this one before. would be glad for answers!


r/vexillology 3h ago

OC Some interesting maritime flags spotted in the wild

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Last weekend I spotted some interesting flags at the SAIL Amsterdam during the sail-out parade. I thought it would be nice to share:

1) flag flown on the Dutch naval ship "KAREL DOORMAN". It displays the text "Follow Me" together with an illustration of an ancient Greek Hoplite. Mind you, this flag was bigger than all the other flags, ensigns, jacks, etc. on that ship. I have absolutely no idea what it is about...

2) flags from Uruguay, Seychelles, and Vanautus. I didn't see any of the guests/tall ships from Seychelles or Vanautus, so I don't know why there were displayed so prominently...

3) flag of the dutch county/municipality Blaricum

4) flag of the dutch province Friesland

5) I have no idea what this flag is. Google lense tells me it's the coat of arms from a French nobleman crusader from the 11th/12th century, called Raymond du Puy. And indeed his coat of arms displayed on Wikipedia looks very similar. But I doubt that he was in Amsterdam last weekend. So I have no idea.

6) same thing. No idea. Maybe some local yacht association.

7) Uruguay

8) Spain

9) Peru. This flag was HUGE. Easily the biggest flag I've ever seen. The picture doesn't do it justice but it was flown on the tall ship "Unión" - a pretty gigantic 4 mast barque

10) Norway (Navy ensign)


r/vexillology 9h ago

Redesigns Welsh inclusion on the Union Jack

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r/vexillology 2h ago

OC A suite of new flags!

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Hey everyone! A while ago, I made a post about a suite of flags I made to represent a Minecraft server which tumbled into an imaginary nation with a suite of flags that tried to merge Nordic and British flag conventions. I later found out that my design, a blue flag with a white-fimbrated green Nordic cross, was already taken by the Komi people!

I was playing around and I really like blue and green together, and I also really like the Nordic cross. Here is my creation for an imaginary Nordic island-state!

I haven’t decided which swallow-tail should be for war and which for state use, but what do you think?


r/vexillology 21m ago

Redesigns A redesign of the St. Andrew's/St. Patrick's section of the Union Flag.

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r/vexillology 6h ago

Historical Flag of Couto Mixto, a historical Galician Microstate that existed from circa 1147 to 1868.

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r/vexillology 5h ago

OC What flag Is this?, spotted in Barcelona

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