The image you posted has a notably asymmetrical star. Wikipedia has a larger image that shows the same lopsidedness:
But they have another with different colors and a fixed star:
Not sure what’s going on. Was there some ugly old flag picture out there that just got replicated? Is the real flag lopsided? Did they actually fix the flag in real life or is the fixed version just on Wikipedia?
Also, how many other flags out there have asymmetrical stars?
If you allow non-national flags, there’s the flag of the President of the United States. It’s the POTUS seal is surrounded by 50 stars for the 50 states, and above are rays with 9 more stars, for a total of 59. (It’s the same as the back of the Kennedy half dollar.) But once you start with that, you’d get bogged down in military flags too.
I’m guessing that someone involved in the Wikipedia page couldn’t find a publicly-available image, and so hand-drew an SVG, and then someone else later either found or made a better (more accurate) SVG.
Probably true. Most national flags have easily-obtainable information on their dimensions, positioning, and colors, so it should be easy to make something that matches. But that’s probably not the case for some city in Urugray. Still, that’s pretty awful! It’s not like it’s just a few pixels off.
Ref Durazno’s lopsided flag and the comments following this post’s fine examples …
If you look at the bowl and flame in the upper example the bowl is both unlevel & nearly trapezoidal while the flame is slanted upward to the left. In the lower example the flame is vertical and the bowl has more natural-looking curved sides.
A close look at the surrounding stars of the upper image show they’re cock-eyed too. It’s especially obvious for the stars near the 12 & 6 o’clock positions.
Almost like somebody took an off-axis low-res screenshot or pic of a book page to source the upper image.
