Fly into Toronto or Vancouver and it is the first thing you notice on the tarmac, a red and white banner with a single maple leaf, snapping in the wind. The Canada flag looks simple, almost too simple for a…
Every American flag flying outside a diner, a courthouse or a national park carries the same story most people never learned past grade school. The USA flag colors, meaning, history and origin trace back to a single congressional resolution, a…
Stand on a balcony in Baku on any given morning and you will likely see it somewhere: three bright bands of blue, red and green, a small white crescent and star sitting quietly in the middle. It looks simple at…
Three horizontal stripes, one for the land, one for the sky, one for the people who never stopped working the soil between them. That is the short version of the Armenia flag, and it barely scratches the surface. Behind the…
Fly into Tbilisi and one Georgian symbol grabs your eye before the food or the wine ever does: a white banner cut by five red crosses, rippling over the old town rooftops. Locals call it the Five Cross Flag. The…
A blue, yellow and red tricolor stands guard over the Pyrenees, and it belongs to a country of just 468 square kilometers wedged between two much larger neighbors. The Andorra flag tells that story without a single word. Read its…
Every flag tells you something about power. The Vatican flag tells you about two kinds at once. Split down the middle in gold and white, crowned with a coat of arms that has outlived empires, it flies over the smallest…
Fly into Monte Titano on a clear morning and the first thing you notice, before the towers even come into focus, is a strip of white and blue snapping in the wind above the rock. That is the San Marino…
Deux bandes horizontales, rouge et blanc, sans blason, sans étoile, sans emblème surchargé. Le drapeau de Monaco intrigue autant par sa simplicité que par son âge : la principauté l’arbore sous cette forme depuis 1881, ce qui en fait l’un…
Most flags borrow something from someone. The Cyprus flag was built to borrow from no one. A white field, a copper colored island, two green olive branches, nothing pulled from Greece, nothing pulled from Turkey. It was designed at a…
