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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.
253 articles
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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
Born from War: How South Sudan Designed a Flag for the World's Newest Country
Blue Nation, Blue Flag: How Kazakhstan's Turquoise Sky Broke Every Rule of Flag Design
Splitting the Island: How the Flags of Aruba, Sint Maarten, and New Caledonia Tell the Story of Colonies That Almost Became Countries
The Crescent Twins: How Tunisia and Azerbaijan Inherited the Same Ottoman Symbol but Made It Mean Completely Different Things
City Flags That Outshine Their Countries: What Chicago, Amsterdam, and the City of London Got Right
Nutmeg, Mahogany, and Defiance: How Caribbean Nations Turned Plantation Crops into Flags of Liberation
Turkmenistan's Carpet Strip: The Most Complex Flag Design in the World and What It Encodes
The Dragon on the Flag of Bhutan and Wales: Two Ancient Creatures, Two Completely Different Meanings
Maps on Flags: Why Cyprus, Kosovo, and Christmas Island Put Their Geography Front and Center
Stars Over the Southern Cross: How One Constellation Became the Identity of the Pacific
Red Over White: How Indonesia, Monaco, and Poland Ended Up Fighting Over the Same Flag
The Sun Disc on the Flag of Bangladesh: How a Blood-Red Circle Became the Symbol of a Nation Born in War