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National flags are not much older than the idea of a nation, and the two grew up together. Tracing how flags changed is a way of tracing how political...

A handful of flags still in use today were designed before the countries that fly them existed in anything like their modern form. Working out which i...

There is a short answer to how many national flags exist, and then there is the longer answer that starts as soon as you ask what counts as a nation. ...

Some flags are worth looking at twice. A few break the rules of shape entirely, some carry weapons, and one was designed by a thirteen-year-old. What ...

Red and white is one of the most common color pairings in flag design, and one of the easiest to read from a distance. The two colors carry fairly con...

Vexillology is the study of flags. The word comes from the Latin "vexillum", meaning flag, with the Greek suffix "-logy" for the study of something. T...