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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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Diagonal Lines and Divided Futures: How Guyana, Tanzania, and Saint Kitts and Nevis Used Slashes to Tell Stories of Struggle
The Cross That Started It All: How Denmark's Dannebrog Became the Template for Every Nordic Flag
The Broken Trident: How Barbados Snapped a Colonial Symbol in Half and Made It a Declaration of Independence
The Tree That Holds Up a Nation: Lebanon's Cedar and the Surprisingly Rare Tradition of Putting Plants on Flags
When Red, White, and Blue Doesn't Mean America: How Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Croatia Share a Palette but Not a Story
The Bauhinia That Blooms for No One: Hong Kong's Post-Handover Flag and the Politics of Botanical Design
The Serrated Edge: Why Bahrain and Qatar Chose Zigzag Lines While Every Other Nation Drew Straight Ones
The Vatican's Crossed Keys: How the World's Smallest State Flies the Most Theologically Loaded Flag
The Coat of Arms Trap: Why Belize, Moldova, and Paraguay Put Encyclopedias on Their Flags, and Whether It Works
One Nation, Two Flags: How Myanmar's 2010 Redesign Erased a Socialist Past Overnight
Green Flags and the Prophet's Color: How Islam Shaped the Palettes of Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, and Beyond
Blue Stripes, Blue Identity: How Israel, Uzbekistan, and the Åland Islands Use Blue-and-White to Mean Completely Different Things
Greenland's Red-and-White Rebel: How a Non-Sovereign Territory Designed a Flag to Look Nothing Like Denmark's
The Lone Star Multiplied: How One Simple Symbol Means Freedom, Unity, or Statehood Depending on Who Flies It
The Flag That Flips for War: How the Philippines Built a Distress Signal Into Its National Banner
Why Zambia Puts Its Eagle in the Corner: The Case for Flags That Break the Grid
The Dragon on the Flag: How Bhutan and Wales Keep Mythical Beasts Alive in Modern Nation-Branding
The Saltire That Crossed the Atlantic: How Jamaica's X-Shaped Flag Broke Every Rule of Post-Colonial Design
Swords, Sabers, and Shamshirs: Why Some Nations Put Bladed Weapons on Their Flags, and Others Took Them Off
The George Cross on Malta's Flag: How a British War Medal Became a Nation's Permanent Symbol of Sovereignty
The Machete, the Hoe, and the Book: Angola's Flag and the Cold War Battle Over What a New Nation Should Value
The Sun With a Face: How an Inca Deity Became the Shared Soul of Two South American Flags
The Scandinavian Cross: How One Medieval Symbol Locked Five Nations Into the Same Flag Template for Centuries
Born From the Same Cloth: How French Overseas Territories Fight for Flag Identity Under the Tricolore's Shadow