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Julio Song
Writer, FlagDB
Julio is a staff writer at FlagDB. He studied Mathematics at the University of Madrid and has a passion for vexillology.
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Bolivia Wrote a Second Flag Into Its Constitution. Then the Fighting Started.
The Flag Nobody Chose: How a Spanish Diplomat Designed Bosnia and Herzegovina's Flag
The Flag Czechoslovakia Split in Half: How the Czech Republic Kept a Banned Flag While Slovakia Started Over
The Flag Nigeria Never Redesigned, and the Man It Nearly Forgot
One Poem, Two Flags: How the Arab World's Colors Split Into Rival Family Trees
The King Who Wouldn't Pick a Side: How the Union Jack Ended Up on an American State Flag
Mississippi Didn't Design a New Flag in 2020. It Went Back to Its First One.
The Eagle Stood Alone: How Mexico's Flag Rewrote Its Own Founding Myth
The Only National Flag That's a Letter From a Dead Alphabet
The Only Flag on Earth That Isn't a Rectangle
One Dragon on Bhutan's Flag, Two on Its National Emblem
The Dragons Guarding the Cities: London, Swansea, Ljubljana, and the Urban Career of a Legendary Creature
The Flag of Ceylon: How a Lion Banner Captured in 1815 Was Rebuilt From a Sketch to Become Sri Lanka's Flag
The Flag of Siam: How a White Elephant Ruled the Flagpole for a Century and Lost It to a Hoisting Accident
Seven Stars, Six Parishes, One Argument: What the Stars on Grenada's Flag Actually Mean
The Other National Symbol: What Emblems Say That Flags Can't, from Oman's Dagger to North Korea's Dam
The Only Flag in the World With a Shipwreck on It: Why Bermuda Celebrates the Disaster That Created It
The Star That Doesn't Belong: How Nauru's Flag Pinpoints a Tiny Nation in a Vast Ocean
Four Colors, One Island: How Mauritius Built the World's Most Mathematically Honest Flag
The Sun That Never Sets: How One Simple Circle Became Asia's Most Loaded Symbol
Black Is Not Nothing: The Radical Political Statement Hidden in Jamaica's Flag
The Map That Became a Flag: Why Kosovo and Cyprus Broke Vexillology's Most Sacred Rule
The Coat of Arms Nobody Can Draw: Why Some National Flags Are Legally Perfect and Practically Impossible
The Horizontal Stripe That Started a Revolution: How Haiti's Flag Was Born from a Torn Tricolor