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.
264 articles
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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
The Crescent Faces Left, the Crescent Faces Right: Why Orientation Matters More Than You Think
The Lotus, the Angkor, and the Nation: Why Cambodia Put a Building on Its Flag and Never Took It Off
Four Crescents, Four Stories: How Azerbaijan, Comoros, Palau, and Turkey Use the Moon to Mean Completely Different Things
Guns, Machetes, and Spears: The Flags That Refused to Hide Their Violent Origins
The Frigatebird of Kiribati: How a Tiny Pacific Nation Put Navigation, Mythology, and Climate Change on a Single Flag
The Bauhinia Flower That Blooms for No Nation: Hong Kong's Flag and the Politics of Botanical Identity
Tricolore Confusion: How Chad and Romania Ended Up With the Exact Same Flag, and Why Neither Will Change It
White for Peace, White for Surrender: The Strange Double Life of the World's Most Contradictory Flag Color
The Diagonal Divide: Why Some Flags Cut Themselves in Half at an Angle, and Why It Matters
Red, White, and Identical: The Indonesia-Monaco-Poland Problem and How Flags Handle Accidental Twins
The Sahrawi Riddle: How Western Sahara Flies a Flag for a Country That Doesn't Fully Exist
The Gospel on the Flag: Why the Dominican Republic Put an Open Bible at the Center of Its National Identity
