Olympe de Gouges was a very early French feminist who was active during the French Revolution and was killed by Robbespierre during his reign of terror. She was particularly noteworthy because her activism could be regarded as an early form of intersectional feminism, because she fought not only for the rights of women, but also...
Not sure if Coat or Arms are allowed but I really love the design. Vestland in Norway is famous for the fjords and I think the design captures this really well.
Wikipedia article about the fortress
I found the flag on Wikipedia, but I cannot find any reliable sources verifying that it is actually used or officially adopted by somebody. So take it with a pinch of salt....
(Or rather most complex, excluding flags with complex CoA.)...
A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia....
The AK-47 and hoe of the Mozambican flag can also be seen as a version of the hammer and sickle, else the symbol is no longer used on national flags today....
(Since you almost need a magnifying glass to see the small purple fields in the rainbows of the flags of El Salvador and Nicaragua, I think they barely count.)...
Wikipedia article about the flag...
The large star in the middle represents the island of Niue, the four smaller stars represent the Southern Cross....
This is a quite obscure flag that little is known about. I can’t even say that it is rotated the correct way and shouldn’t be lying down instead. However, I couldn’t help but opt for the funnier rotation....
Current flag for reference:...
Back before the current flag, Siam used a red flag with a white elephant:...
The flag is very similar to the flag of Syria and Iraq, which had similar Arab nationalist regimes. In fact, for a time, the three countries had flags with one, two and three stars respectively!...
The George cross is indeed a British military award, that Malta received in 1942 for its bravery in WWII....
Nevis, the smaller of the two islands, also has its own flag:...
This flag won a nationwide poll in 1949, but some changes were made to it afterwards, leading to the Malaysian flag we know today. The reason for these changes seems somewhat unclear, more than that the politician Onn Jaafar suggested them....
The previous flag was very similar, but with 11 stripes and an eleven-pointed star:...
They even have their special national anthem to represent the entire island: Ireland’s Call
