The flag of the Islamic Federal Republic of Pakistan, adopted in 1953 upon independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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The flag of the People's Republic of Colombia, adopted first by rebel forces, and then by the Provisional Revolutionary Council upon the overthrow of President Guillermo Paris Gordillo in 1959.
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Bengal, adopted upon secession from India during the First Dissolution War in 1962.
The Democratic Republic of Kenya, adopted in 1969 upon the overthrow of President Onyango Obama.
The flag of the Moluccan Federation, adopted in 1972 upon independence from the Netherlands.
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The flag of the Democratic Republic of Kongo, adopted in 1989 upon the overthrow of dictator Josef-Dieter Mobutu.
The flag of the Socialist Republic of Liberia, declared as the national flag in 1991 upon the capture of the Presidential Palace by Theodore Kwiwonkpa.
The flag of Micronesia, adopted in 1996 upon independence from the United States of America.
And if you don't want to go back and forth through all those pages, here they all are in one place, albeit reduced by about 75%.
Kaiphranos
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Hmm. Seems like this world's vexillographers have a fondness for non-standard field divisions...
Or, rather, which divisions are standard and which are non-standard are different in this world.
Just which would you consider as "non-standard" (no pun intended by me, not sure about you
), and why? I wonder if in fact that is more the case ITTL or IOTL. The reason I ask is that I believe I bear heraldic concepts in mind more than many OTL flag designers do. P.S. Many of TTL's flags are the same as those of OTL. It would just be boring to show them, though I may list them one of these days.
Petike
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Just which would you consider as "non-standard" (no pun intended by me, not sure about you
P.S. Many of TTL's flags are the same as those of OTL. It would just be boring to show them, though I may list them one of these days.
Generally speaking, I like your flags (the Indian one is interesting), but I'd really really like to ask you to save your pictures in PNG format, so they don't become so distorted. Even if you're making them in standard MS Paint, you can save them as PNGs. Trust me, they'll look a hundred times better, especially if they have a lot of small details.
Petike
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BTW, here's a little something I made for fun. The flag of the fictional Caribbean island nation of Cascara, from the weird 80s British comedy Water. The flag can only be glimpsed briefly near the end of the film and a pretty detailed description of it is available at FotW. It's an odd flag, kind of garish in its choice of colours (I'd lose the red circle and just keep the palm in the lower part of the yellow field). The green field supposedly represents both the hills of the island and a stylized sea wave (eeriely tsunami-esque, innit ? ).
).Thank you for the compliment. I'll try the .png format for future flags. I am, however, generally against small details, both for general vexillological reasons, and second, because I am a crappy draftsman with little artistic talent.
Kaiphranos
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Just which would you consider as "non-standard" (no pun intended by me, not sure about you
I guess I'm looking at both Bengal and Europastadt using "Seychelles-style" rays, and the sort of combined horizontal/vertical divisions you have in Austria, Bolivia, Kerala, and arguably the Moluccas, while there's not a single straight-up horizontal tricolor.
Well, that's fair enough. I'll admit, it was an offhand comment based on the selection here.
I guess if the number of countries is similar to OTL, this is a pretty small sample size to work from.Well, that combined horizontal-vertical field division is present on around a half dozen national flags IOTL, so its not exactly unheard of. The Seychelles and the Marshall Islands use rays OTL, so OTL and TTL are even at the moment in the ray department.
As to numbers of nations, I haven't counted, but there are somewhat fewer ITTL, since a few of the old OTL countries and their colonies which one way or another became many nations didn't ITTL, and there are many fewer nations in Africa, which more than makes up for those areas ITTL, such as [India] and [Indonesia], in which there are several more nations than there are IOTL.
As to numbers of nations, I haven't counted, but there are somewhat fewer ITTL, since a few of the old OTL countries and their colonies which one way or another became many nations didn't ITTL, and there are many fewer nations in Africa, which more than makes up for those areas ITTL, such as [India] and [Indonesia], in which there are several more nations than there are IOTL.
A flag from an alternate German Guyana. Its CoA was an adaptation from the Klein Venedig CoA someone made in 2009 at the Flag Thread #1.
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