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National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons .
It has been called the most all-encompassing flag databases on the web, with over 19,000 pages by mid 2003. [5] [1] Flags of the World renders most of its images of flags in the GIF format, with a standardized and limited colour palette. A standard height of 216 pixels is used, a number chosen to make division into many different numbers of ...
net.flag is an interactive work hosted on the Guggenheim museum's website. The site contains images of all the national flags of the world. Each flag is broken into its respective components, that are categorized according to several broadly descriptive terms.
List of national flags of sovereign states; Flag of Nauru; Flag of Nepal; Flag of the Netherlands; Flag of the Netherlands Antilles; Flags of New Caledonia; Flag of New Zealand; Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand; National Māori flag; Flag of Nicaragua; Flag of Niger; Flag of Nigeria (1914–1960) Flag of Nigeria; Flag of Niue; Flag of ...
Finland (state flag and ensign) Finland (war flag and naval ensign) Presidential Flag of Finland Flores Department German Confederation Guyana Jamaica (1655–1962) Kaliningrad Oblast Karakalpakstan Khakassia Klaipėda Region Milne Bay Mon State Moro National Liberation Front Moscow Mozambique Namibia Nevada New Brunswick
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
Lists of flags; List of flags by color; List of flags with blue, red, and white stripes; Lists of country subdivision flags; List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption; List of flags by design; Flags of micronations; List of military flags; List of flag names; List of flags by number of colors; List of national flags by design