Fun fact: the idea of using white between red and blue in the French flag was suggested by the Marquis de Lafayette. Considering how Lafayette came from a long line of medieval nobility (the first Marquis de Lafayette fought alongside Joan of Arc), I assume he was taught the rule of tincture and think it's not a coincidence that he suggested a metal between two colors
Estonia 🇪🇪 has got to be my favorite flag, it’s colors are just so nice and the fact that it matches Estonia’s landscape during the winter perfectly is just the nice little bow on top.
Which flag is your favorite? Corrections/Addendums: United Nations (justsomeonewhodoheroicacts): Not a flag that I mentioned, but it has 193 member states, not 192, can't believe I rushed past that. Cameroon (me): Before the current flag they had a flag with 2 stars for the unity between French Cameroon and English Cameroon. Cameroon's increasing centralization, including changing their flag to only include 1 star, is why English Cameroon (Ambazonia) wants independence. Kazakhstan (bonchemin): The flag of the Kazakh Khanate was likely not the inspiration for the blue color. Instead it might come from the blue stripe on the flag of the Kazakh SSR. Georgia (user-gr9fq9gt9w): Georgia's flag might date back even further to 1200, since a recently discovered coin of the king at the time featured a symbol that looks very similar to Georgia's current flag. Although I didn't include it in this video due to the "approx. 1350" in the Wiki article lined up with the naval map instead. Romania (funfoxvlad): Alongside the Moldavian coat of arms, the other part of Romania (Wallachia) had a naval flag with the current Romanian colors, which is also likely where they got their inspiration. Argentina (duncanmann): Historians often attribute the blue and white colors to the House of Bourbon, which I considered strange because the Latin Americans Wars of Independence were inspired by the French getting rid of the Bourbons, but you can take it with a grain of salt, although there are also other explanations Israel (me): The reason why the flag has two blue lines is because it looks like a ṭallit, which is a piece of cloth worn during prayer, and it also has a lot of stripes on it. New Zealand (osama_been_lagging): It has 4 stars, not 5, lol. Egypt (kfir fecher): Saladin established the Ayyubid dynasty, not the Abbasid dynasty. I literally got the image from the wiki page of the Ayyubids, I'm just an idiot lmao.
Csa flag the war one that everyone thinks is the csa flag listen me out I don't support [forced labour without pay] they literally made an original flag
I looked it up so no one has to, it stands for “mothers milkfeeding strong serbian children” accorsing to the Serbian gov website. Not as bad a I thought tbh
Fun fact: When kids in primory school ask about the Y in the South African flag, most teachers tell them to find a buddy and tell them to put one hand together (one child left hand with another child right hand) to form a bowl, the teacher would ask what they see in the creases of their hands and the kids would see a Y. The teacher would explain that the Y stands for the Y in UNITY and together they can make the word happen. Of course South Africa is a mix pot of different races, cultures and religions so it's a bit important for teachers to teach kids to work together. Personally, I was a logical kid so I always found that explanation stupid because you could do it yourself without anyone as the other half but I see it now.
Additional flag facts I'd like to add: - The Cuban flag was designed in NYC by revolutionaries living in exile in 1849 (famed Cuban hero José Martí also lived in NYC at the time). The current Puerto Rican flag was also designed in NYC (modeled after the Cuban one) as the Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries worked with each other. To honor NYC's role, Cuba gave the city a statue of José Martí on horseback in Central Park. - The reason the flag of the former Greater Republic of Central America was inspired by Argentina's is because when Argentines serving under Hipólito Bouchard raided Spanish outposts in Central America as part of the Argentine War for Independence, the locals saw that flag as their first free flag from Spain. - When the Brazilian flag was first adopted in 1889, it had 21 stars. But since 1992, it has 27. This is because they are for the 26 states of the country as well as the Federal District/Brasília, so stars have been added for every new state. - The Aussie flag isn't the same as New Zealand's lol. You missed the big star on the bottom left corner. That's the Commonwealth Star. Originally it was six-pointed to represent the six original states of Australia, but a seventh point for the Territory of Papua was added in 1908 and to represent all future territories.
Another fact about the brazilian flag he didint mentioned. The stars dont only represents the state of rio de janeiro, but also represents the 26 states and the federal district where the capital Brazilia is
7:17 Georgia By late 2021, a newly-discovered coin of the King David the Builder with five-cross composition engraving now dates the Georgian flag to the 12th century. According to the State Council of Heraldry, the coin is of greatest importance and is an unmistakable proof for the history of the Georgian national flag being used during the reign of King David IV.
@@ExtraInExile also Georgia adopted their flag in 2004. The flag before was the same as the Democratic Republic of Georgia but with different proportions. They left it after the Rose Revolution and in all things I read about the flag: endorsed it
Not countries but two favorite flags of mine are St Pierre & Miquelon (unofficial) and Macau: - The Macanese flag has a lotus with a bridge and lines for water below it with stars above it. The lotus flower in full bloom represents the everlasting prosperity of Macau (which they're certainly not wrong about that; gambling being banned in Mainland China definitely helps). The bridge is the Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge, that links Macau Peninsula with Taipa. The bridge and water represent Macau's position as a port and its important role. And like the stars of Hong Kong's flag, the stars represent the PRC and Macau's relation with it, only this time the stars are yellow like the PRC's flag instead of red like Hong Kong's. And what brings it all together is the nice shade of green in the background. - The St. Pierre & Miquelon unofficial flag has the flags of the Normans, Bretons, and Basques on the left side to symbolize the people who resettled the islands in 1816 (fighting between Britain and France led to settlements getting destroyed over and over). On a light blue background, there's a giant yellow ship sailing on some waves, representing the Grande Hermine, which brought explorer Jacques Cartier to St. Pierre in June 1536.
@@AussieBall_Animations Only in English it is pronounced with the S (and in other languages influenced by English...) But even in English, the official name of the country is "Lao People's Democratic Republic" The only reason the "S" is even pronounced is because the French which colonized and gave the country its name, wrote it with an S, despite the S is not pronounced. (Like French like to add useless letters on words...) And English-speaking people just read it as Laos and not "Lao". It's just English pronounced the word wrong and it just stuck. In the Lao language, there are no "S-ending" letters in the Lao language.
I'm an American, so correct me if I'm wrong, but while Laos is pronounced "Lao" in Lao (the language), it is not in English, in just the same way we pronounce France with an æ instead of one of the French nasal vowels, ɑ̃. On the other hand though, we don't pronounce Thailand with an ð or a θ, we pronounce it with a "t".
Well if YOU'RE not gonna explain our flag because you don't "trust" us (which is funny you ironically pretend the US government is innocent), then *I* will explain it. The red star and red background represent anti-Japanese sentiment, the bloodshed by revolutionary Korean patriots, and the might of the people united to support the DPRK. The white symbolizes one bloodline, one land, one language, one culture of our monoethnic country, which lived in purity. And blue stands for the gallant visage of our people and symbolizes the spirit of the Korean people fighting for world peace and progress. I will say, kudos to you for putting the Korean unification flag at 0:37. It's a flag we hope to fly as our national flag someday once a peaceful reunification is achieved.
8:59 USA When the first few extra states started being added to the Union after the original thirteen colonies, the flag was given additional stripes as well as additional stars. This very quickly became impractical, so they reverted to the thirteen stripes for the original thirteen colonies and then continued to just add a star for each additional state. In fact, the Star-Spangled Banner that Francis Scott Key saw when he decided to write the poem of that name featured 15 stars and 15 stripes.
@@OmiReal He's a pro-ruzzian "content" creator. Literally look at any of his content. "Russia collapsing would make it a NATO puppet state". "Poland should invade western Ukraine". Etc etc.
About the Iceland's flag: We didnt add red because we were under the Danish, we added it to our flag from the fact that it was too similar to Sweden and Greece at that time.
13:37 the three colors on the romanian flag represent the three states that form Romania. Blue for Transilvania, Yellow for Wallachia and Red for Moldova. Also the coat of arms contains symbols for these states on the shield. Moldova's flag was inspired by the Romanian one, as the two countries were united a long time ago, the moldovan coat of arms being the same design as the romanian one except it doesnt have the symbols for wallachia or transilvania, representing only moldova.))
11:30 another thing about the Greek flag: the number of stripes is the same number of syllables in the national motto "Freedom or Death" (Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος).
Wow what a monster of a video, very impressed by the density of information here! The one thing that's a little annoying is the repeated use of "same as X", especially when X was like 10 countries ago. A quick refresher would have been nice to keep track of all of those... Also, fun fact, after WW2 Germany almost got a Nordic cross flag as well. There's designs out there of a black, red and gold cross which actually look dope.
4:33 the french flags means the 3 things: blue for liberty white for equality and fraternity, even tho it represented royalty before the french revolution happened red for bloodshed during the french revolution and the fight for democracy
And so, the Extra in Exile space arc comes to an end, with the reveal of branching off into alt history mapping, and, from what I can tell at least, you already have quite a lot of *prepares matpat voice* LOOOOOOOORREEE! planned out for it and vexillology volumes. Quick spoiler warning ahead as I go more in-depth on my general thoughts and theories to do with the episode. From what I am able to tell (aka what we're given), EBM seems to be in charge of the rules of the cards, and can use them to do a lot of things, from making a tornado to go into space or to manipulate probability with the gambling card (during the green horde/EBM fight scene). This already makes EBM an incredibly powerful character (no wonder they're extra's guard to keep them in Exile), which brings us onto Extra. Given the end of the video, Extra appears to be an incredibly powerful reality bender, capable of transferring themselves and anyone with them to wherever they have a drawing of, or anywhere in general given both a pencil and eraser, potentially capable of doing a spongebob and erasing the universe with a literal string. This means that Extra could beat goku. EBM is technically containing someone who, with a relatively common object that a student (like extra) would normally have on them, could rewrite reality and beat goku, hence making whoever put extra into Exile stronger than goku if extra had a pen and an eraser, but this whole aspect will probably be explained in the alt history mapping thing, whenever you get to that point in the story. Upon waking up (from being LITERALLY DEAD), extra also mentions green horde being from their imagination, hence having another incredibly powerful reality bending power - with some limitations, being that you can't control your own creations. From the contract green horde was trying to make extra sign, we can also assume that extra has the ability to BESTOW PLOT ARMOUR, at least to a limited extent, which also helps explain all of the deus ex machinas - Extra is essentially the god of this reality we're peering into from thier perspective by watching thier videos. I am really looking way too into a university student's balls now, am I (take that out of context, I dare you).
Djibouti’s flag isn’t only based on that organisation, but also the people living there and the geography of the nation. The blue is the skies or Somalis, the green is the earth or Afar which is an ethnic group related to Somalis, the white is for peace or Arabs and the red star is for unity and bloodshed. Djibouti is also part of the 5 regions indigenously inhabited by Somalis.
The Norwegian flag is *intentionally* similar to the Danish one. Most of *our* nobles died off during the plague. So when Denmark and Norway entered a personal union our upper class ended up becoming tied to the Danish one, partly nobles with land in both kingdoms, partly goverment officials educated in Denmark and loyal to the Danish king. Being ceded to Sweden happended without our consent. So our flag was made to reflect our close ties to Denmark while also recognizing that we where also under Sweden and our own thing as well. Our flag has layers upon layers of symbolism as a result.
Adding red, white and blue was indeed a tactic to get "approval" and pay homage to both Denmark and Sweden. But it was also inspired by the french flag and the revolution they had. A wish to be free and independent in the future. It's really hard to imagine a better design for Norway, especially at the time it was made. And the often disputed story of its origin is also a fun little puzzle. Did one of his sons draw it, or did Fredrik Meltzer make it himself?
Minu arvates sinine tähendab meie helget tuleviku ja eest kultuuri säilimist. Must tähendab meie tumedat mineviku okupatsiooni ajal ning valge sümboliseerib meie rahva südametunnistust ja seda, et me pole vihkav rahvas.
Very nice video! Been meaning to watch it for a while now. When talking about the Egyptian flag 21:36, you mention Saladin as being the first caliph of the Abbasids, however I am fairly confident that he was not, but was the first caliph of the Ayyubids.
A widely accepted theory about the origin of the Argentine flag is that it's based on the colors of the House of Bourbon in Spain. When the news about Carlos IV imprisoned by Napoleon began to be spread in the Americas the revolutionaries in Buenos Aires proposed governing themselves until the Bourbon monarchy was reestablished in Spain, instead of following the viceroy. So they used the blue and white colors of the Bourbons to show their loyalty to the monarchy.
The first paraguayan flags of june and agost of 1811 where inspired by the capital frag of Asuncion that was blue used in the revolt and one using red, yellow, blue inspired by spain
The venezuelan flag was created way before Colombia and Ecuador, it was Francisco de Miranda who designed the flag in 1811 with the failed First Republic of Venezuela, with many theories linking France, and even Russia with the tricolor design (as Miranda had an interesting story in most of the important military conflicts in Europe in that age)
the explanation for the somali flag is wrong the blue represents the sky not the UN flag or the ocean like some believe the 5 point star represents the 5 somali clans Hawiye, Dir, Isaaq, Darood and Raxaweyn the whole point of the flag is that we are united and no matter what we can look towards the sky to see our flag (in the national anthem you can hear them referring to the sky as our flag)
Australia isn't the same as New Zealand, it has a Federation star that represents the 6 British colonies joining together as 6 united states. Becoming the Commonwealth of Australia.
11:30 In the Greek part you forgot to explain the meaning behind stripes, the 9 stripes stand for the nine syllables of the Greek motto 'Eleftheria i Thanatos' ['Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος'] (Greek for 'Freedom or Death'). the phrase just represents the Greek revolution in 1821
Minor Correction. Tricolor doesn't mean a flag with 3 lines, but a flag with a three colors, as the name would suggest. The Netherlands and Austria are instead tribands. Tricolor also usually referes to tribands with 3 colors, but ive also seen "tricolor" used to describe non-triband flags.
29:31 The pattern actually originates in the central asia and was used in basically every industry as an artistic ornament. Also, Koshkar - muiz is only one pattern of many "oyu - ornek" (literally "ornament")
I looked it up- It is believed among the people that red colour on the Serbian flag represents the blood shed for this country, the blue represents freedom, while the white represents mother's milk feeding strong Serbian children.
The argentinean flag was created by Belgrano and the colours come from de escarapelas used in the mayo revolution that come from the colours that were used in the House of Borbon from Spain
That's true, although I didn't mention Belgrano because I thought it wouldn't be too important, but the Bourbon thing is something that I'll add to the corrections
11:16 Perú. We have this national story (something you could say to children) about the origin of the flag, it started with the dream of General Don José de San Martín, liberator of many countries and also Peru. The story says that in his dreams he saw a flock of birds in the sky, a flock of parihuanas (a native species of flamengos), saw the red and white on it's feathers and that's how he chose the colors. Of course this is just a story, but is kinda nice to have it. And also, the shield on the center resemblance our fauna, flora and riches.
This is such a great video, its Strange how underated this channel is since like, its great, the Animation and like humor and history. This is just great.
12:38 honestly very likely the whole peace between the catholics and protestants was the main idea of the flag, with said colours being derived from lienster due to it being more catholic, and orange due to the orange order. As since the wolfe tone revolution, basically all irish revolutions aimed for such an equal republic
10:08 Really really small mistake, the circle under the hat is only meant to be red on the coat of arms, not the flag. On the flag it's actually white, this is predetermined in the flag code of the Vatican. But the mistake is so common that even Wikipedia had it wrong for several years. I wonder if anyone else noticed.
You missed a detail with the Australian flag. The extra star under the union jack is called the commonwealth star and it's seven points represent the 6 states (one point each) and then one point for the territories. :)
9:18 [47] "It seems possible, though not certain, that after the conquest Mehmed took over the crescent and star as an emblem of sovereignty from the Byzantines. The half-moon alone on a blood red flag, allegedly conferred on the Janissaries by Emir Orhan, was much older, as is demonstrated by numerous references to it dating from before 1453. But since these flags lack the star, which along with the half-moon is to be found on Sassanid and Byzantine municipal coins, it may be regarded as an innovation of Mehmed. It seems certain that in the interior of Asia tribes of Turkish nomads had been using the half-moon alone as an emblem for some time past, but it is equally certain that crescent and star together are attested only for a much later period. There is good reason to believe that old Turkish and Byzantine traditions were combined in the emblem of Ottoman and, much later, present-day Republican Turkish sovereignty." Franz Babinger (William C. Hickman Ed., Ralph Manheim Trans.), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, 1992, p 108
So, Irelands green, white, and orange tricolor stood for something random until they changed it to mean religious unity, and India’s same colored tricolor stood for religious unity until it was changed into something random?
Im not sure what he's on about. The flag always stood for the ideal of cooperation and coexistence of catholics and protestants in a United Ireland. Also, the origins he claims for the colours isn't exactly accurate. The harp on green background is a flag associated with revolution from all the way back in the late 1600s. It was used widely and helped associate green with the Irish, and would be later chosen as the provincial flag of Leinster. The orange is associated with William of Orange and the Orange Order, which is cemented in the protestant tradition, rather than the Dutch House of Orange. The flag is believed to have originated in the 1840s from a group of French women who were sympathetic to the Irish. The colours were explicitly chosen because of their associations, and were not retroactively applied. The flag's first real use was when it was flown in the 1916 Rising, which by then the flag's meaning was already cemented amongst those who were already familiar with it.
Hey um, you are partially wrong about Romania, it is a French tri-color with the colors from Moldavia's flag/coat of arms and Wallachia's naval flag. Transylvania was also associated with all 3 colors on the Romanian flag.
You (and Wikipedia) acctualy have a small mistake here because the first recorded use of the Danish flag (14th century) only comes after the first recorded use of the Austrian flag (1230) the Date used here (1219) is the one according to legend however the Austrian flag also has its own legend, according to which it was created during the 3rd Crussade in the late 11th century. Here's the legend coppied from Wikipedia: According to legend, the flag was invented by Duke Leopold V of Austria as a consequence of his fighting during the Siege of Acre. After a fierce battle, his white surcoat was completely drenched in blood. When he removed his belt, the cloth beneath remained unstained, revealing the combination of red-white-red. So taken was he by this singular sight that he adopted the colours and scheme as his banner.
Just like the USA, Brazil, has stars representing each of their states. In addition, just like the USA, Brazil adds a new star when a new state is added to the country.
29:31 The pattern was not inspired by the Belarusian flag, and isn't a nod to the past, as Kazakhstan suffered immense losses under the rule of the Soviet Union. It's just... you couldn't be further from the truth with this statement and I had to point it out. The pattern generally is called Ою-өрнек "oyu örnek" and it is simply a national pattern that is incorporated everywhere: in various rugs, accessories, clothes and even outer walls of houses. So it's no surprise that it made it to the national flag
For such a simple design, Japan’s flag is so iconic and stands out among all the stripes. Also, I must say I love South Korea’s flag because it is also relatively simple but looks good and has nice meaning behind it.
2:11 for those who want to know: It is believed among the people that red colour on the Serbian flag represents the blood shed for this country, the blue represents freedom, while the white represents mother's milk feeding strong Serbian children
Random fact: Aboriginals are respected so much in Australia almost all the time theres an Australian flag theres an Aboriginal flag next to it. Also. We aren’t the same as New Zealand. We have a large star representing our states
@@Adrian-kb4rg Because the stars are exactly the same. How can it be respectively? It's not that one star represents one spesific island. It's the two stars represents both.
The Ashoka Chakra in the Indian flag does come from Buddhists but the flag takes it from the symbol of the ruler of the Mauryan Empire, Ashoka, a Buddhist . He made a bunch of edicts on pillars throughout his empire(basically the entirety of India) with his symbol, three lions on a platform with the Chakra engraved on it(also the inspiration for the national symbol.)
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The Austrian flag has its own legend which was completly left out
@@lazulithedragonIt was mentioned during the Latvian one
Fun fact: the idea of using white between red and blue in the French flag was suggested by the Marquis de Lafayette. Considering how Lafayette came from a long line of medieval nobility (the first Marquis de Lafayette fought alongside Joan of Arc), I assume he was taught the rule of tincture and think it's not a coincidence that he suggested a metal between two colors
Lafayette the same from the american revolution?
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Yeah, same guy.
He was called “the hero of two worlds” for a reason.
@@graceneilitz7661 Im pretty sure Lafayette was a royalist so I don't know much about him being a hero un France
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There is a good biographics video on him. It’s a good summary of his life.
Estonia 🇪🇪 has got to be my favorite flag, it’s colors are just so nice and the fact that it matches Estonia’s landscape during the winter perfectly is just the nice little bow on top.
May be biased, since I'm Estonian, but I agree, love the tones lol
seychelles and bhutan are mine
I'm not Estonian but I live in Tallinn...
I do appreciate the flag. It's quite nice.
Same
Same
ASEAN edition (Association of South East Asian Nations)
14:01 Indonesia 🇮🇩
14:44 Philippines 🇵🇭
15:02 Brunei Darussalam 🇧🇳
16:48 Thailand 🇹🇭
18:56 Vietnam 🇻🇳
19:29 Laos 🇱🇦
20:26 Cambodia 🇰🇭
20:49 Malaysia 🇲🇾
23:24 Singapore 🇸🇬
26:38 Timor-Leste 🇹🇱
31:35 Myanmar 🇲🇲
ASEANs thank you.
greeting from Vietnam
Thank you
Love from Indonesia
You had 69 likes I will now make it 70👹
what about serbia
@@ape7900 serbia isnt ASEAN
I looked it... Up and the white represents Mother giving Milk to STRONG Serbian Children
Someone: you like flags? Explain every flags.
Extra: Okay.
Finally someone brings attention to how big of an influence the Argentine flag was in many other countries' flags
Which flag is your favorite?
Corrections/Addendums:
United Nations (justsomeonewhodoheroicacts): Not a flag that I mentioned, but it has 193 member states, not 192, can't believe I rushed past that.
Cameroon (me): Before the current flag they had a flag with 2 stars for the unity between French Cameroon and English Cameroon. Cameroon's increasing centralization, including changing their flag to only include 1 star, is why English Cameroon (Ambazonia) wants independence.
Kazakhstan (bonchemin): The flag of the Kazakh Khanate was likely not the inspiration for the blue color. Instead it might come from the blue stripe on the flag of the Kazakh SSR.
Georgia (user-gr9fq9gt9w): Georgia's flag might date back even further to 1200, since a recently discovered coin of the king at the time featured a symbol that looks very similar to Georgia's current flag. Although I didn't include it in this video due to the "approx. 1350" in the Wiki article lined up with the naval map instead.
Romania (funfoxvlad): Alongside the Moldavian coat of arms, the other part of Romania (Wallachia) had a naval flag with the current Romanian colors, which is also likely where they got their inspiration.
Argentina (duncanmann): Historians often attribute the blue and white colors to the House of Bourbon, which I considered strange because the Latin Americans Wars of Independence were inspired by the French getting rid of the Bourbons, but you can take it with a grain of salt, although there are also other explanations
Israel (me): The reason why the flag has two blue lines is because it looks like a ṭallit, which is a piece of cloth worn during prayer, and it also has a lot of stripes on it.
New Zealand (osama_been_lagging): It has 4 stars, not 5, lol.
Egypt (kfir fecher): Saladin established the Ayyubid dynasty, not the Abbasid dynasty. I literally got the image from the wiki page of the Ayyubids, I'm just an idiot lmao.
Flag of Cyprus
Csa flag the war one that everyone thinks is the csa flag listen me out I don't support [forced labour without pay] they literally made an original flag
Hey, I think you forgot Qatar 🇶🇦
Cool, also awesome end to the video
Hey @ExtraInExile ,What makes you went on exiled for a INFINITE days?
You put so much effort and time into your videos, it seems you really love what you do.
It always turns out amazing!
Never ask:
A woman - Her age
A man - His salary
Serbia - What the white in their flag is *supposed* to represent
Omelandah was Proud Serbian.
I looked it up so no one has to, it stands for “mothers milkfeeding strong serbian children” accorsing to the Serbian gov website. Not as bad a I thought tbh
mother's milk feeding strong Serbian children.
genuinely one of the higher quality polandball TH-camr, easily deserves several hundred thousand subscribers
Fun fact: When kids in primory school ask about the Y in the South African flag, most teachers tell them to find a buddy and tell them to put one hand together (one child left hand with another child right hand) to form a bowl, the teacher would ask what they see in the creases of their hands and the kids would see a Y. The teacher would explain that the Y stands for the Y in UNITY and together they can make the word happen. Of course South Africa is a mix pot of different races, cultures and religions so it's a bit important for teachers to teach kids to work together. Personally, I was a logical kid so I always found that explanation stupid because you could do it yourself without anyone as the other half but I see it now.
Not much of a unified country considering how corrupt it is.
The Y is made out of converging lines so it makes sense aesthetically to me too
Additional flag facts I'd like to add:
- The Cuban flag was designed in NYC by revolutionaries living in exile in 1849 (famed Cuban hero José Martí also lived in NYC at the time). The current Puerto Rican flag was also designed in NYC (modeled after the Cuban one) as the Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries worked with each other. To honor NYC's role, Cuba gave the city a statue of José Martí on horseback in Central Park.
- The reason the flag of the former Greater Republic of Central America was inspired by Argentina's is because when Argentines serving under Hipólito Bouchard raided Spanish outposts in Central America as part of the Argentine War for Independence, the locals saw that flag as their first free flag from Spain.
- When the Brazilian flag was first adopted in 1889, it had 21 stars. But since 1992, it has 27. This is because they are for the 26 states of the country as well as the Federal District/Brasília, so stars have been added for every new state.
- The Aussie flag isn't the same as New Zealand's lol. You missed the big star on the bottom left corner. That's the Commonwealth Star. Originally it was six-pointed to represent the six original states of Australia, but a seventh point for the Territory of Papua was added in 1908 and to represent all future territories.
Nice facts, i did not know this about Cuba and Puerto rico
Another fact about the brazilian flag he didint mentioned.
The stars dont only represents the state of rio de janeiro, but also represents the 26 states and the federal district where the capital Brazilia is
7:17 Georgia
By late 2021, a newly-discovered coin of the King David the Builder with five-cross composition engraving now dates the Georgian flag to the 12th century. According to the State Council of Heraldry, the coin is of greatest importance and is an unmistakable proof for the history of the Georgian national flag being used during the reign of King David IV.
True! Gonna add that
@@ExtraInExile also Georgia adopted their flag in 2004. The flag before was the same as the Democratic Republic of Georgia but with different proportions. They left it after the Rose Revolution and in all things I read about the flag: endorsed it
Not countries but two favorite flags of mine are St Pierre & Miquelon (unofficial) and Macau:
- The Macanese flag has a lotus with a bridge and lines for water below it with stars above it. The lotus flower in full bloom represents the everlasting prosperity of Macau (which they're certainly not wrong about that; gambling being banned in Mainland China definitely helps). The bridge is the Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge, that links Macau Peninsula with Taipa. The bridge and water represent Macau's position as a port and its important role. And like the stars of Hong Kong's flag, the stars represent the PRC and Macau's relation with it, only this time the stars are yellow like the PRC's flag instead of red like Hong Kong's. And what brings it all together is the nice shade of green in the background.
- The St. Pierre & Miquelon unofficial flag has the flags of the Normans, Bretons, and Basques on the left side to symbolize the people who resettled the islands in 1816 (fighting between Britain and France led to settlements getting destroyed over and over). On a light blue background, there's a giant yellow ship sailing on some waves, representing the Grande Hermine, which brought explorer Jacques Cartier to St. Pierre in June 1536.
I’m surprised your isn’t North Korea
i can see why you like saint pierre, blue and yellow is really cool, thats why i like palau too
You added Haiti? You are officially my favorite countryball channel. I'm subbing.
The art style looks better than before, magnificent!
And Pog animation
Extra truly went God mode in this one, a vexing vexillology nerd at their vines- I mean finest!
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The country name is actually pronounced "Lao"
*Kudos for pronouncing Sri Lanka and Kiribati right!*
It is actually pronounced “Laos” The language they speak is pronounced “Lao”
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Only in English it is pronounced with the S (and in other languages influenced by English...)
But even in English, the official name of the country is "Lao People's Democratic Republic"
The only reason the "S" is even pronounced is because the French which colonized and gave the country its name, wrote it with an S, despite the S is not pronounced. (Like French like to add useless letters on words...)
And English-speaking people just read it as Laos and not "Lao". It's just English pronounced the word wrong and it just stuck.
In the Lao language, there are no "S-ending" letters in the Lao language.
I'm an American, so correct me if I'm wrong, but while Laos is pronounced "Lao" in Lao (the language), it is not in English, in just the same way we pronounce France with an æ instead of one of the French nasal vowels, ɑ̃. On the other hand though, we don't pronounce Thailand with an ð or a θ, we pronounce it with a "t".
It's true that it's pronounced "Lao" in Laotian, but I stuck to the English pronunciation since that's how it's pronounced by anyone else.
Okay
Well if YOU'RE not gonna explain our flag because you don't "trust" us (which is funny you ironically pretend the US government is innocent), then *I* will explain it. The red star and red background represent anti-Japanese sentiment, the bloodshed by revolutionary Korean patriots, and the might of the people united to support the DPRK. The white symbolizes one bloodline, one land, one language, one culture of our monoethnic country, which lived in purity. And blue stands for the gallant visage of our people and symbolizes the spirit of the Korean people fighting for world peace and progress.
I will say, kudos to you for putting the Korean unification flag at 0:37. It's a flag we hope to fly as our national flag someday once a peaceful reunification is achieved.
holy shit it's the supreme leader himself, it's an honor sir
doesnt the blue stand for kim il sung's balls
When he said “Colours inspired by nature🌿…” I felt that 😔
8:59 USA
When the first few extra states started being added to the Union after the original thirteen colonies, the flag was given additional stripes as well as additional stars. This very quickly became impractical, so they reverted to the thirteen stripes for the original thirteen colonies and then continued to just add a star for each additional state.
In fact, the Star-Spangled Banner that Francis Scott Key saw when he decided to write the poem of that name featured 15 stars and 15 stripes.
Got to love those little animations.
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@@OmiReal He's a pro-ruzzian "content" creator. Literally look at any of his content. "Russia collapsing would make it a NATO puppet state". "Poland should invade western Ukraine". Etc etc.
About the Iceland's flag:
We didnt add red because we were under the Danish, we added it to our flag from the fact that it was too similar to Sweden and Greece at that time.
13:37 the three colors on the romanian flag represent the three states that form Romania. Blue for Transilvania, Yellow for Wallachia and Red for Moldova. Also the coat of arms contains symbols for these states on the shield. Moldova's flag was inspired by the Romanian one, as the two countries were united a long time ago, the moldovan coat of arms being the same design as the romanian one except it doesnt have the symbols for wallachia or transilvania, representing only moldova.))
I'm from Moldova, (and also a Citizen of romania,) and I agree with everything you said here.
the white on the flag of Serbia stands for: "mother’s milk feeding strong Serbian children"
11:30 another thing about the Greek flag: the number of stripes is the same number of syllables in the national motto "Freedom or Death" (Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος).
Wow what a monster of a video, very impressed by the density of information here!
The one thing that's a little annoying is the repeated use of "same as X", especially when X was like 10 countries ago. A quick refresher would have been nice to keep track of all of those...
Also, fun fact, after WW2 Germany almost got a Nordic cross flag as well. There's designs out there of a black, red and gold cross which actually look dope.
Amazing Video! I'm also excited for the alternate history as a mapping TH-camr myself
This was such high quality and was shocked to see you only have 8k subs :0
It was quite informative and entertaining at the same time, I subbed :D
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the french flags means the 3 things:
blue for liberty
white for equality and fraternity, even tho it represented royalty before the french revolution happened
red for bloodshed during the french revolution and the fight for democracy
And so, the Extra in Exile space arc comes to an end, with the reveal of branching off into alt history mapping, and, from what I can tell at least, you already have quite a lot of *prepares matpat voice* LOOOOOOOORREEE! planned out for it and vexillology volumes. Quick spoiler warning ahead as I go more in-depth on my general thoughts and theories to do with the episode.
From what I am able to tell (aka what we're given), EBM seems to be in charge of the rules of the cards, and can use them to do a lot of things, from making a tornado to go into space or to manipulate probability with the gambling card (during the green horde/EBM fight scene). This already makes EBM an incredibly powerful character (no wonder they're extra's guard to keep them in Exile), which brings us onto Extra. Given the end of the video, Extra appears to be an incredibly powerful reality bender, capable of transferring themselves and anyone with them to wherever they have a drawing of, or anywhere in general given both a pencil and eraser, potentially capable of doing a spongebob and erasing the universe with a literal string. This means that Extra could beat goku. EBM is technically containing someone who, with a relatively common object that a student (like extra) would normally have on them, could rewrite reality and beat goku, hence making whoever put extra into Exile stronger than goku if extra had a pen and an eraser, but this whole aspect will probably be explained in the alt history mapping thing, whenever you get to that point in the story. Upon waking up (from being LITERALLY DEAD), extra also mentions green horde being from their imagination, hence having another incredibly powerful reality bending power - with some limitations, being that you can't control your own creations. From the contract green horde was trying to make extra sign, we can also assume that extra has the ability to BESTOW PLOT ARMOUR, at least to a limited extent, which also helps explain all of the deus ex machinas - Extra is essentially the god of this reality we're peering into from thier perspective by watching thier videos. I am really looking way too into a university student's balls now, am I (take that out of context, I dare you).
Absolutely legendary comment
@@ExtraInExile thanks
Djibouti’s flag isn’t only based on that organisation, but also the people living there and the geography of the nation. The blue is the skies or Somalis, the green is the earth or Afar which is an ethnic group related to Somalis, the white is for peace or Arabs and the red star is for unity and bloodshed. Djibouti is also part of the 5 regions indigenously inhabited by Somalis.
The Norwegian flag is *intentionally* similar to the Danish one.
Most of *our* nobles died off during the plague.
So when Denmark and Norway entered a personal union our upper class ended up becoming tied to the Danish one, partly nobles with land in both kingdoms, partly goverment officials educated in Denmark and loyal to the Danish king.
Being ceded to Sweden happended without our consent.
So our flag was made to reflect our close ties to Denmark while also recognizing that we where also under Sweden and our own thing as well.
Our flag has layers upon layers of symbolism as a result.
Adding red, white and blue was indeed a tactic to get "approval" and pay homage to both Denmark and Sweden. But it was also inspired by the french flag and the revolution they had. A wish to be free and independent in the future. It's really hard to imagine a better design for Norway, especially at the time it was made.
And the often disputed story of its origin is also a fun little puzzle. Did one of his sons draw it, or did Fredrik Meltzer make it himself?
as an estonian, i wanted to add that the white is for snow, black is either for dirt or forests, and the vlue is for either the sky or the sea
Minu arvates sinine tähendab meie helget tuleviku ja eest kultuuri säilimist. Must tähendab meie tumedat mineviku okupatsiooni ajal ning valge sümboliseerib meie rahva südametunnistust ja seda, et me pole vihkav rahvas.
@@komojiro7397 see on küll palju luulelisem kui see mida meile koolis räägiti. Mulle meeldib sinu arvamus isegi rohkem
Very nice video! Been meaning to watch it for a while now. When talking about the Egyptian flag 21:36, you mention Saladin as being the first caliph of the Abbasids, however I am fairly confident that he was not, but was the first caliph of the Ayyubids.
12:52 actually, Slovenia’s color order was based on lightest to heaviest color from top to bottom, the coat of arms was to distinct itself from Russia
First video I've watched of yours and I am already subscribed
Good content!
A widely accepted theory about the origin of the Argentine flag is that it's based on the colors of the House of Bourbon in Spain. When the news about Carlos IV imprisoned by Napoleon began to be spread in the Americas the revolutionaries in Buenos Aires proposed governing themselves until the Bourbon monarchy was reestablished in Spain, instead of following the viceroy. So they used the blue and white colors of the Bourbons to show their loyalty to the monarchy.
This was a great informative video with only minor errors. Keep up the incredible work
The first paraguayan flags of june and agost of 1811 where inspired by the capital frag of Asuncion that was blue used in the revolt and one using red, yellow, blue inspired by spain
My flag is the best flag. (Btw amazing video, keep up the good content!)
The venezuelan flag was created way before Colombia and Ecuador, it was Francisco de Miranda who designed the flag in 1811 with the failed First Republic of Venezuela, with many theories linking France, and even Russia with the tricolor design (as Miranda had an interesting story in most of the important military conflicts in Europe in that age)
Very few channels can get me to subscribe after the very first video I watch from them. Congrats.
the explanation for the somali flag is wrong the blue represents the sky not the UN flag or the ocean like some believe the 5 point star represents the 5 somali clans Hawiye, Dir, Isaaq, Darood and Raxaweyn the whole point of the flag is that we are united and no matter what we can look towards the sky to see our flag (in the national anthem you can hear them referring to the sky as our flag)
Thanks bro I learned a lot, you deserve a subscribe. And yes I watched the whole video without skip
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And two halfs of stars to represent that the line of the stars is endless.
probably your greatest video so far!
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The lion and sun in fact dates way back before the introduction of Islam to Iran, and is a national symbol of Iran, not a religious one.
All the flags if you're only here to see your country if it was mentioned:
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The Netherlands: 3:00
France: 4:02
Japan: 6:03
Denmark: 6:24
Austria: 6:46
Latvia: 6:57
Georgia: 7:17
Albania: 7:29
Switzerland: 7:41
Wales: 7:49
Sweden: 8:03
Tonga: 8:07
Russia: 8:13
Nepal: 8:23
Lichtenstein: 8:34
United States of America: 8:45
Spain: 9:01
Türkiye (Turkey): 9:17
Italy: 9:28
San Marino: 9:36
United Kingdom: 9:41
Haiti: 9:55
Vatican City: 10:01
Ecuador: 10:11
Colombia: 10:18
Venezuela: 10:24
Argentina: 10:28
Chile: 10:48
Norge (Norway): 10:58
Mexico: 11:09
Peru: 11:15
El Salvador: 11:22
Greece: 11:30
Honduras: 11:38
Nicaragua: 11:42
Tunisia: 11:43
Uruguay: 11:51
Belgium: 11:56
Poland: 12:00
Serbia: 12:05
Paraguay: 12:11
Dominican Republic: 12:16
Luxembourg: 12:21
Liberia: 12:25
Costa Rica: 12:28
Ireland: 12:33
Croatia: 12:47
Slovenia: 12:50
Ukraine: 12:52
Slovakia: 12:58
Hungary: 12:59
Germany: 13:03
Bolivia: 13:23
Suomi (Finland): 13:28
Andorra: 13:33
Romania: 13:36
Guatemala: 13:40
Cuba: 13:41
New Zealand: 13:48
Bulgaria: 13:55
Monaco: 13:58
Indonesia: 14:01
South Korea: 14:03
Estonia: 14:15
Brazil: 14:18
Israel: 14:39
Philippines: 14:44
Australia: 14:54
Panama: 14:55
Brunei: 15:02
Portugal: 15:12
Morocco: 16:36
Thailand: 16:48
Jordan: 16:57
Lithuania: 17:08
Iceland: 17:17
Armenia: 17:23
Azerbaijan: 17:38
Czechia: 17:45
Taiwan: 17:59
Bharat (India): 18:10
Fiji: 18:20
Maldives: 18:22
Saudi Arabia: 18:30
Bahrain: 18:42
Algeria: 18:50
Vietnam: 18:56
Mongolia: 19:03
Lebanon: 19:13
Malta: 19:17
Laos: 19:29
Bhutan: 19:44
Pakistan: 19:51
North Korea: 19:59
Samoa: 20:09
Sri Lanka: 20:15
Cambodia: 20:26
Qatar: 20:36
China: 20:38
Malaysia: 20:48
Belarus: 20:58
Libya: 21:25
Yemen: 21:34
Egypt: 21:36
Somalia: 21:43
Ghana part 1: 21:49
Ethiopia: 22:04
Ghana part 2: 22:52
Cameroon: 23:00
Madagascar: 23:02
Guinea: 23:04
Central African Republic: 23:06
Niger: 23:11
Syria: 23:12
Chad: 23:18
Benin: 23:20
Ivory Coast: 23:21
Singapore: 23:23
Gabon: 23:29
Senegal: 23:30
Nigeria: 23:32
Mali: 23:35
Republic of the Congo: 23:36
Togo: 23:38
Cyprus: 23:40
Sierra Leone: 23:43
Kuwait: 23:45
Jamaica: 23:46
Trinidad and Tobago: 23:57
Uganda: 23:58
Burundi: 24:01
Kenya: 24:09
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 24:15
Iraq: 24:22
Tanzania: 24:28
Zambia: 24:32
Malawi: 24:36
Gambia: 24:39
Canada: 24:40
Micronesia: 24:43
Botswana: 24:48
Barbados: 25:00
Guyana: 25:06
Antigua and Barbuda: 25:10
St. Lucia: 25:16
Nauru: 25:18
Mauritius: 25:20
eSwatini: 25:27
Sudan: 25:36
Oman: 25:37
United Arab Emirates: 25:44
Bangladesh: 25:46
Papua New Guinea: 25:49
Equatorial Guinea: 25:54
Bahamas: 25:59
Guinea-Bissau: 26:00
Grenada: 26:03
São Tomé and Principe: 26:09
Angola: 26:15
Suriname: 26:22
Mozambique: 26:25
Timor-Leste: 26:38
Western Sahara: 26:44
Djibouti: 26:48
Solomon Islands: 26:55
Dominica: 26:59
Tuvalu: 27:06
Marshall Islands: 27:11
Kiribati: 27:18
Vanuatu: 27:22
Iran: 27:29
Zimbabwe: 27:41
Palau: 27:50
St. Kitts and Nevis: 28:00
Burkina Faso: 28:04
Greenland: 28:06
St. Vincent and the Grenadines: 28:20
Palestine: 28:34
Namibia: 28:36
Moldova: 28:42
Uzbekistan: 28:44
Turkmenistan: 28:56
Kyrgyzstan: 29:09
Kazakhstan: 29:24
Cape Verde: 29:38
Tajikistan: 29:41
Eritrea: 29:51
South Africa: 29:56
North Macedonia: 30:03
Seychelles: 30:11
Somaliland: 30:24
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 30:34
Rwanda: 30:44
Comoros: 30:54
Montenegro: 31:01
South Sudan: 31:11
Lesotho: 31:25
Kosovo: 31:28
Myanmar: 31:35
Afghanistan: 31:41
Mauritania: 31:45
Belize: 31:52
Australia isn't the same as New Zealand, it has a Federation star that represents the 6 British colonies joining together as 6 united states. Becoming the Commonwealth of Australia.
with 7 points in total, one representing the territories.
Hey man, I don't now who you are, but I will go to to your channel and watch all your vids NOW
11:30 In the Greek part you forgot to explain the meaning behind stripes, the 9 stripes stand for the nine syllables of the Greek motto 'Eleftheria i Thanatos' ['Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος'] (Greek for 'Freedom or Death'). the phrase just represents the Greek revolution in 1821
Dude this is one of the best channel! 100% my favorite! Keep up with the good work!
Romania's colours dont only reppresent Moldavia. They blue for Transylvania, yellow for wallachia and red for Moldavia
i love the animations! new viewer, looking forward to more content from you
this is a certified flag moment.
Love that you included the opposition flag for Iran! Important, especially after last year.
Minor Correction. Tricolor doesn't mean a flag with 3 lines, but a flag with a three colors, as the name would suggest. The Netherlands and Austria are instead tribands. Tricolor also usually referes to tribands with 3 colors, but ive also seen "tricolor" used to describe non-triband flags.
Wow, this is the longest one yet.
29:31 The pattern actually originates in the central asia and was used in basically every industry as an artistic ornament.
Also, Koshkar - muiz is only one pattern of many "oyu - ornek" (literally "ornament")
I love the little storyline in between the explaining
I looked it up-
It is believed among the people that red colour on the Serbian flag represents the blood shed for this country, the blue represents freedom, while the white represents mother's milk feeding strong Serbian children.
This is one of the best videos that I have seen on TH-cam :D
"Lebanese cheddar tree" ... lol
Explanation + lore =Awsome video
The argentinean flag was created by Belgrano and the colours come from de escarapelas used in the mayo revolution that come from the colours that were used in the House of Borbon from Spain
That's true, although I didn't mention Belgrano because I thought it wouldn't be too important, but the Bourbon thing is something that I'll add to the corrections
I looked up what the white in Serbia’s flag stands for and I’m going to have a fucking cerebral hemorrhoid
11:16 Perú.
We have this national story (something you could say to children) about the origin of the flag, it started with the dream of General Don José de San Martín, liberator of many countries and also Peru. The story says that in his dreams he saw a flock of birds in the sky, a flock of parihuanas (a native species of flamengos), saw the red and white on it's feathers and that's how he chose the colors. Of course this is just a story, but is kinda nice to have it.
And also, the shield on the center resemblance our fauna, flora and riches.
As a Peruvian, I absolutely love this.
This is such a great video, its Strange how underated this channel is since like, its great, the Animation and like humor and history.
This is just great.
12:38 honestly very likely the whole peace between the catholics and protestants was the main idea of the flag, with said colours being derived from lienster due to it being more catholic, and orange due to the orange order. As since the wolfe tone revolution, basically all irish revolutions aimed for such an equal republic
10:08 Really really small mistake, the circle under the hat is only meant to be red on the coat of arms, not the flag. On the flag it's actually white, this is predetermined in the flag code of the Vatican. But the mistake is so common that even Wikipedia had it wrong for several years. I wonder if anyone else noticed.
You missed a detail with the Australian flag. The extra star under the union jack is called the commonwealth star and it's seven points represent the 6 states (one point each) and then one point for the territories. :)
Are you dutch/belgian? The "brabant" sounded to native to me(I'm a brabander) Lol Nice video!
2:13 DONT DO IT GUYS. I DID IT AND I REGRET IT, ITS NOT WORTH IT OK?!
Mother's m i l k
@@TheHedgehogEnthusiast nooooo you got fooled
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[47] "It seems possible, though not certain, that after the conquest Mehmed took over the crescent and star as an emblem of sovereignty from the Byzantines. The half-moon alone on a blood red flag, allegedly conferred on the Janissaries by Emir Orhan, was much older, as is demonstrated by numerous references to it dating from before 1453. But since these flags lack the star, which along with the half-moon is to be found on Sassanid and Byzantine municipal coins, it may be regarded as an innovation of Mehmed. It seems certain that in the interior of Asia tribes of Turkish nomads had been using the half-moon alone as an emblem for some time past, but it is equally certain that crescent and star together are attested only for a much later period. There is good reason to believe that old Turkish and Byzantine traditions were combined in the emblem of Ottoman and, much later, present-day Republican Turkish sovereignty." Franz Babinger (William C. Hickman Ed., Ralph Manheim Trans.), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, 1992, p 108
So, Irelands green, white, and orange tricolor stood for something random until they changed it to mean religious unity, and India’s same colored tricolor stood for religious unity until it was changed into something random?
Im not sure what he's on about. The flag always stood for the ideal of cooperation and coexistence of catholics and protestants in a United Ireland. Also, the origins he claims for the colours isn't exactly accurate. The harp on green background is a flag associated with revolution from all the way back in the late 1600s. It was used widely and helped associate green with the Irish, and would be later chosen as the provincial flag of Leinster. The orange is associated with William of Orange and the Orange Order, which is cemented in the protestant tradition, rather than the Dutch House of Orange.
The flag is believed to have originated in the 1840s from a group of French women who were sympathetic to the Irish. The colours were explicitly chosen because of their associations, and were not retroactively applied.
The flag's first real use was when it was flown in the 1916 Rising, which by then the flag's meaning was already cemented amongst those who were already familiar with it.
0:36 even SM mall here in the Philippines has it’s own flag
Hey um, you are partially wrong about Romania, it is a French tri-color with the colors from Moldavia's flag/coat of arms and Wallachia's naval flag. Transylvania was also associated with all 3 colors on the Romanian flag.
That's true, I originally wrote the blue off as French inspiration or water as in a naval flag, but I'll add it to the corrections
an underatted masterpiece
Aren't there 193 UN Member States?
I can't figure out what the missing one is, but I only know that there are...
Can't find Algeria
@@Bombersman 18:50 and he did it wrong
You (and Wikipedia) acctualy have a small mistake here because the first recorded use of the Danish flag (14th century) only comes after the first recorded use of the Austrian flag (1230)
the Date used here (1219) is the one according to legend however the Austrian flag also has its own legend, according to which it was created during the 3rd Crussade in the late 11th century.
Here's the legend coppied from Wikipedia:
According to legend, the flag was invented by Duke Leopold V of Austria as a consequence of his fighting during the Siege of Acre. After a fierce battle, his white surcoat was completely drenched in blood. When he removed his belt, the cloth beneath remained unstained, revealing the combination of red-white-red. So taken was he by this singular sight that he adopted the colours and scheme as his banner.
Just like the USA, Brazil, has stars representing each of their states. In addition, just like the USA, Brazil adds a new star when a new state is added to the country.
29:31 The pattern was not inspired by the Belarusian flag, and isn't a nod to the past, as Kazakhstan suffered immense losses under the rule of the Soviet Union. It's just... you couldn't be further from the truth with this statement and I had to point it out.
The pattern generally is called Ою-өрнек "oyu örnek" and it is simply a national pattern that is incorporated everywhere: in various rugs, accessories, clothes and even outer walls of houses. So it's no surprise that it made it to the national flag
A glass cage? You mean a big cup?
Trying to think of a defense, but I've got nothing, guess I'm gonna take the L here
someone please take the caffeine away from this narrator, i had to play this video at half speed just to understand half of it.
5:08 the UN has 193 member states
Nice choice of music that makes this video a lot better than it probably should've been (I am rhythm heaven simp)
For such a simple design, Japan’s flag is so iconic and stands out among all the stripes. Also, I must say I love South Korea’s flag because it is also relatively simple but looks good and has nice meaning behind it.
i always knew i needed this in my life
2:11 for those who want to know:
It is believed among the people that red colour on the Serbian flag represents the blood shed for this country, the blue represents freedom, while the white represents mother's milk feeding strong Serbian children
I loved the reference to the Kingdom of Lovely, a micronation started by comedian Danny Wallace
Random fact: Aboriginals are respected so much in Australia almost all the time theres an Australian flag theres an Aboriginal flag next to it.
Also. We aren’t the same as New Zealand. We have a large star representing our states
Also the Torres Strait Islander flag if I'm correct! Also you're right about Australia's flag, I'm gonna do a correction for that
@@ExtraInExile yeah there is. I forgot
14:54 also, underneath the union jack each point of the star stands for a state in australia (6)
Dont look up what the white on serbia's flag means.
Ok thanks I won’t
Too late
26:10 "Respectively", lol!
Same for 28:02
its just a word, why do you find it funny?
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Because the stars are exactly the same.
How can it be respectively?
It's not that one star represents one spesific island. It's the two stars represents both.
2:13 I looked it up. I can never unsee it.
What does it mean..
I always heard the white of France came from the blue and red revolutionary colors crushing the monarchy.
The Ashoka Chakra in the Indian flag does come from Buddhists but the flag takes it from the symbol of the ruler of the Mauryan Empire, Ashoka, a Buddhist . He made a bunch of edicts on pillars throughout his empire(basically the entirety of India) with his symbol, three lions on a platform with the Chakra engraved on it(also the inspiration for the national symbol.)
So uh idk how the h so Serbian flags white means mo#her milk