Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
South Korea
Uruguay
Belarus
Kenya
Malawi
South Africa
Mauritania
Algeria
I am not fond of tricolors, but I think Estonia and Armenia’s flags turn out quite well and are a unique combination.
Flag joke: A tourist (American, presumably) is a visitor to Canada and would like to take a Canadian flag home as a souvenir, but…is it available in blue?
Are we allowed to mention in this thread hideous abominations against everything that is good and holy? Because, if so, I would like to nominate the county flags of Liberia. There are 15 of them, and each and every one is a monster of almost Lovecraftian proportions.
BEHOLD… Also, abandon all hope all ye who enter here, and be ready to make an appointment with your eye doctor ASAP. Wanna see them all together in one place? Click here and weep. Wanna see them one by one in all their high-res glory? Here you have the 15 separate links.
Oh hey, I’m giving a speech on flag design tomorrow!
Armenia’s is a very common combination, but Estonia’s is unusual. I think only Botswana has a similar colorway.
Botswana is my favorite flag of the moment. Moldova is the worst, not because it looks so bad but because they deliberately chose a flag that would be easy to confuse with others.
No kidding! My favorite is the one featuring a diamond with sparkle-rays coming out of it, and also has a drawing of something that is either an anthropomorphized tree or a guy holding up a gigantic green rock.
I like the Estonia flag, too. There’s an Estonian monument that I pass on my daily commute, and I always admire the flag flying next to it - one of the better horizontal tricolors out there, I think: Flag of Estonia - Wikipedia
I want to thank Nnuzio for bringing to my attention a flag even worse (in its own way) than the flag of my state. Note to Lethbridge: you forgot to finish your flag.
But I mostly want to point out that Oregon has the worst flag of all the US states.[sup]1[/sup] It breaks almost every rule of good flag design. It has writing, including the name of the state. It has the state seal. No one could draw the flag from memory, much less a school kid. Worst of all, the reverse is totally different than the front.
Dishonorable mention for state flags goes to Missouri. This is because of star-abuse. It has the state seal and around the seal is a circle of 24 stars (Missouri being the 24th state). But then in the upper part of the seal is another set of 24 stars! Come on, how many sets of stars do you need on a flag? One is certainly enough.
[sup]1[/sup] I say this as a long-time resident of Oregon. And no, I’m not proud to have the worst flag. It’s shameful and we really need to change it.
Count me as a Maryland Flag hater. It makes me queasy just looking at it. I used to eat at a cheesy Italian restaurant festooned with medieval Italian horse racing flags. The Maryland flag would fit right in.
