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The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column.
English: CIA World Factbook Political World Map. January 2015 is the latest vector version available of this file. (The October 2016 PDF contains a bitmap version, not vector. And February 2021 PDF version is partially vector, and partially bitmap.)
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1944 1951 1991 1995 2012 Belarus: Belgium: 1790 1830 1831 Belgium: Belize: 1919 1981 2019 Belize: Benin: 1958 1975 1990 Benin: Bhutan: 1949 1956 1969 Bhutan: Bolivia: 1825 1826 1851 Bolivia: Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1377: 1878 1878 1908 1918 1941 1946 1992 1998 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1448: 1908 Botswana: 1885 1966 Botswana: Brazil: 1816 1816 ...
Nov 1944 [57] Germany: 1992–present: Republic of Albania 1946–92: People's Socialist Republic of Albania. 1944–46: Democratic Government of Albania. 1943–44: Albanian Kingdom, independent country militarly occupied by Germany. 1939–43: Kingdom of Albania, a monarchy in personal union with Italy as the 1928–39: Albanian Kingdom
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.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.