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The crown was added to the flag in 1937 after the country found out at the 1936 Summer Olympics that their flag was identical to the civil flag of Haiti. 1852–1921 1921–1937 1937–1982 1982– 1920–1935 Territory of the Saar Basin: 1947–1956 Saar Protectorate: 2011– San Marino See also: List of Sammarinese flags
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.
Only countries which are currently sovereign states are listed, although the flag may have been adopted before the countries gained independence. The listed countries may have undergone fundamental regime changes, great geographical changes or even temporarily lost autonomy, or undergone political unions or secessions. If the flag remained in ...
Flags are flying at half-mast today in New Jersey in honor of the life of state senator and assemblyman Paul J. Contillo. Gov. Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 355 to order the United States ...
Monaco is also part of the French postal code system, but the country code MC- is used for Monegasque addresses. French Guiana: GF: 973NN Overseas Department of France. French codes used. Range 97300 – 97390. French Polynesia: PF: 987NN Overseas Collectivity of France. French codes used. Range 98700–98790. French Southern and Antarctic ...
for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. MIX Mixed-NOCs: 2010– Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics ...
U.S. and state flags in Washington flew at half-staff Tuesday for former state Rep. Georgette Valle, who died July 10 at age 99. Gov. Jay Inslee issued the directive for the longtime King County ...
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.