r/vexillology • • 8d ago

Contest October 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: Poland, Indonesia, and Monaco

This October, we want you to redesign three flags which are notoriously easy to confuse with one another. Create redesigns of Poland, Indonesia, and Monaco with the aim of making each one more visually distinctive from the other two.

We approved 62 entries in the following categories:

# Entries Category
25 Monaco
21 Indonesia
16 Poland

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods


r/vexillology • • 13h ago

Historical The first flags of some Argentine provinces

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Fortunately, nowadays their flags are more interesting than


r/vexillology • • 2h ago

OC Fitting the USA and Australia flags into a hexagon: center crop vs recomposed. Which is worse?

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82 Upvotes

r/vexillology • • 4h ago

Redesigns Flag of Brazil with a 1:2 (height:lenght) aspect ratio

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80 Upvotes

r/vexillology • • 8h ago

Discussion 🐟🐟 Massachusetts flag redesign should feature the revolutionary Sacred Cod. 🐟🐟

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I’m not sure how this historical element has been overlooked so much among the many discussions of a new Massachusetts flag design. The following information is collected from the wooden statue’s Wikipedia page:

- The Sacred Cod is a four-foot-eleven-inch (150 cm) carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, painted to the life, hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House‍—‌"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth" (i.e. Massachusetts, of which cod is officially the "historic and continuing symbol"). The Sacred Cod has gone through as many as three incarnations over three centuries: the first (if it really existed‍—‌the authoritative source calling it a "prehistoric creature of tradition") was lost in a 1747 fire; the second disappeared during the American Revolution; and the third, installed in 1784, is the one seen in the House chamber today.

What do you think?


r/vexillology • • 10h ago

Redesigns Subreddit flag redesign

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r/vexillology • • 7h ago

Identify Anyone know what the green flag is? Its in a line of every turkic flag.

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Saw this on Instagram and have no clue what the green flag is. I know the blue one is for Crimean tatars.


r/vexillology • • 17h ago

Current Russian Separatist Flags of Ukraine (Updated) (by me)

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r/vexillology • • 14h ago

OC Mongol Empire Space Flag

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r/vexillology • • 1h ago

Collection A book introducing flags of various countries published in Korea 35 years ago. (Korea, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, United States, South Africa, Brazil)

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There are almost all countries, and I can see flags or national flags that have now disappeared or changed.


r/vexillology • • 1h ago

Redesigns Flag Redesign of Poland (With and Without Coat of Arms)

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Feel free to ask me questions or say anything about the flag redesign of Poland.


r/vexillology • • 7h ago

Identify what is the flag on the top right?

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[Germany] [?]

[Czechia] [Saxony]

found on a local music event ad in Gunzen/Vogtland/Germany near the czech border (Fojtsko)


r/vexillology • • 4m left

Current Druze and Kurdish community in Copenhagen, DK

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r/vexillology • • 15h ago

Current Flag of Sanseito Party

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This is the flag of Sanseito Party, which is the right-wing party in Japan.


r/vexillology • • 24m ago

Current Posting the flags for every city in California Day #296:Whitter

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r/vexillology • • 2h ago

Current Flag of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

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Tochigi is a prefecture in the region of Kanto in Japan, adopted its flag on March 1, 1964


r/vexillology • • 1h ago

Fictional Flag of my fictional Amerindian nation: Paseen Nation

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I know that some people won't like this, but I wanted it to be similar to real-life native american flags, not to be visually appealing to me in particular.

The 8 red lines represent the 8 bands of the Pasin nation, red to represent that all people in the nation have underwent hardships and the blood spilt from colonization.

The green square in the middle represents the Pasin peoples' connection to nature, while the four circles with symbols represent the sky gods: Sun, Moon, Cloud, and Wind.

The central bear head shows the main Pasin god, Aǫtem, who represents victory, strength and hunting.


r/vexillology • • 4h ago

Redesigns Ontario Flag Redesign :)

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Obligatory “the place I am from desperately needs a flag redesign but nothing on this sub spoke to me” post. I am no graphic designer, so please be gentle.

Instead of a comment, I’ll just talk here
 - Bottom of the shield of arms with the maple leaves replaced with trilliums
I think it’s cute. It’s a nod to the coat of arms while being uniquely Ontarian - Loyalist crown
to reference the Loyalists. Although, to a lot of Ontarians, crowns no longer represent the Crown (tm), but rather provincial associations. So, it is nice to add regardless. - Colour scheme
similar to the original. I see the original flying every single day. A similar colour scheme would cause the least whiplash.

As for the actual compositions I have (Reddit may mess with the order like it did the first time I tried to post this, but)
 - The one I like the most, the one with the thin stripes on the sides. - The Canadian Pale, which looks super empty to me. I wanted to add something like a gold ribbon wrapping around the back of the middle stripe? Not sure. - The “me messing around with composition randomly” one. It actually looks kind of cool, thoughtlessness aside.

I tried other colour schemes and none seemed to work as good with what I had, but obviously I did not try everything and there could be a magical combination I did not stumble across. What do you guys think?

And elements
I wanted to add more things, but I didn’t want to be too on the nose. And fitting more elements into the composition would have been a very difficult task that I do not have the skill for.

Ok. Thank you for coming to my Ontario TED talk. Please be nice.


r/vexillology • • 2h ago

Current Unofficial flag of Pays de la Loire

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Pays de la Loire is a region of France, it dosent have an official flag, sometimes, this flag is used to represent the region. Features elements from all its departments and historical provinces combined, adopted in 1986 (de facto).


r/vexillology • • 19h ago

Identify Is this rebel flag in the film Ka Whawhai Tonu a real/based on a real flag from the time?

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This is a film about the New Zealand Land Wars, the siege of Orakau specifically during the Invasion of Waikato in the 1860s. I recognise the other flags the rebels have as real flags or at least based on real ones, but not this, white handprints on a black flag.

Tried looking it up but couldn't find anything similar, I know hand symbols are popular among the followers of the Ringatu Maori church in the modern day tho. And people of the Ngai Tuhoe tribe (where most Ringatu are from I believe) were in this battle/film so part of me wonders if it is based on that? but idk.

I dont think hand print was a popular symbol among rebel Maori at the time also.

So yeah, this a real flag or just made for the movie?


r/vexillology • • 1d ago

Identify Wich flag is this?

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Can someone identify this flag? We found it on switzerland


r/vexillology • • 2h ago

Current Flag of the Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia

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Övörkhangai Province is a province in Mongolia, they use a non-rectangular flag, and I think is the best subnational flag in Mongolia.


r/vexillology • • 2h ago

Fictional Flag history of Koloka (fictional country)

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r/vexillology • • 3h ago

Redesigns Day 117 of making flags for Kentucky Counties: Wayne

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Today's flag is for Wayne County which was founded in 1800 and named for revolutionary General Anthony "Mad" Wayne. The county was mostly agricultural and dependent on slave labor. During the civil war, Confederate General (traitor) Felix Zollicoffer made the county his headquarters, but latter died in the Battle of Mill Springs in 1861. The "Confederate Government of Kentucky" (just a bunch of self-appointed traitors) renamed the county Zollicoffer in his honor. It didn't stick.

The flag I mad is divided into two sections. One side shows the fifteen striped flag that General "Mad" Wayne gave to natives as a symbol of a peace treaty and the other half has a black star in honor of the enslaved who worked the county. The yellow is mostly to break up the flag better. I originally wanted it to be white for the winter that the Battle of Mill Springs happened in, but it didn't look right.

Hope y'all enjoy.