Evolution of National Flags Since 2000

It's common for a nation to adopt a new flag from time to time, but exactly how common is this? Here, I explore every single alteration to a national flag in the twenty-first century and discover the rate in which these flags change in the modern day.
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#flags #history #geography

[@odakidakida9193]

you know how unstable Afganistan is when even their flag keeps changing

[@mousse1138]

You defintley need to make more of these. I need more flag content in my life.

[@awfulzed]

Great video! Would you ever make one for 1980-2000?

[@faultyvlogger]

that'a actually a good idea

[@YTBRSosyalEmre]

Imagine the japan one

[@ShadowOfThePit]

or the 20 countries that came from the soviet union and yugoslavia

[@DragonTheOneDZA]

Changes for le big nations Weimar republic to the german empire flag Germany changes flag to swastika Germany makes cooler swastika Germany explodes Two German bois East germany adds coat of arms East germany commits die JAPAN! Japanese empire to the occupational flag Full nation... Pizza land Italy removes crown Italy breaks in two Second italy uses eagle Italy removes symbol USSR Change symbol Change symbol Change symbol Explosion Korea? Korea flag North and south korea flag... Africa:

[@NorwayMappper]

​@@PrincetonStudiosOfficialTo Long

[@niclausgronwaldt7718]

Some of your best work! Thank you for so much for covering such an informative topic!

[@SamDisconnected]

Let's get this guy to 100k!

[@Koblevis]

I liked these kind of videos keep making these

[@Notmrchicken]

6:30 Cyprus didn’t gain independence in 1930 it gained independence in 1960

[@bombtruckreadyfordispatch]

Afghanistan trying to not change it's flag : 😰🥵

[@ChicksJustCute]

Jail 😊

[@RyanMKDD]

its flag

[@kerbin923]

“Jail its flag”

[@ochkhuubattogoo4094]

“Jail it’s flag jail it’s flag”

[@Astoryfrom1916.]

Meanwhile Italy: 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@Blockly806]

have you done/will you do a video of the flag changes of the late 20th century?

[@morbidsearch]

The thumbnail is very reminiscent of those 1990s flag websites that used the limited 256 colour palette

[@Nelson_504]

I'm from Honduras, and I watched the whole vid to see our change not knowing it's the most recent one.😅 I'm glad I I did, though. Such an interesting video.👍👏

[@ej_makesvideos]

4:13 Did a German design that flag?

[@arnoldluz05]

Afghanistan can't decide which flag to use

[@kerov2103]

Awesome!! Great video topic, editing and research. Keep it up! 👍

[@EvanThwaites]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.

[@SoyElLoboGris13]

​@@EvanThwaitesI also liked it

[@indigoproxima]

@@EvanThwaites I think you should make more videos like this instead of the level up stuff, really good

[@mythicalcreaturesdoctorsor3589]

​@@EvanThwaites 🇦🇱 Albania empire : king men army battle warring islam

[@mythicalcreaturesdoctorsor3589]

​@@EvanThwaites 🇮🇹 Italy empire : king men army battle warring Christianity

[@joshuaneher2360]

6:50 reminds me of something…

[@Dexspo1]

Very cool

[@SlushieDraws]

I like learning new flags!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

To add context to the Comoros flag: The four stripes added represent the islands of the archipelago, just like the four stars. Yellow for Mohéli, white for Mayotte, red for Anjouan and blue for Grande Comore. Mayotte is a French overseas department but are claimed by the Comoros as theirs. The reason why Mayotte remains French is because the island rejected independence twice in 1974 and 1976. And in 2009, the island voted in favor of becoming a department. Mayotte has a stronger link to France than the rest of the Comoros because they were French for far longer, as it became French in 1841, who repopulated it and made the island a sugar island. The others became French in 1886. The design of the flag of Georgia dates back to the 12th century as a coin of the King David the Builder with it was discovered in late 2021. It also appeared as the flag of Tbilisi on a 14th century map by Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano. The Kingdom of Georgia lasted from 1008 to 1490. After the fight for independence from the Soviets, the flag was used in the early 2000s by the main opposition party, the United National Movement led by Mikheil Saakashvili, as a symbol of popular resistance to Shevardnadze's rule (a rule marked by rampant corruption) as well as a symbol of the Rose Revolution. So when Shevardnadze resigned and Saakashvili won in a snap election, he endorsed the flag.

[@carinaslima]

Rare detailed comment. Have my like.

[@mrm8522]

Wait, but Mayotte is part of France.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

@@mrm8522 I literally said that it's a French overseas department. It's a part of France claimed by Comoros. Did you skip everything I said about why Mayotte is French? Because I never said it wasn't.

[@DZag6149]

Lol bro probably skipped

[@NazrulIslam-ns3hf]

The supreme north korean leader be teaching us history facts

[@im.not.that.dumb.4]

In 2023, Martinique changes it’s flag from a English shaped Scottish flag with snakes kinda like Georgia to this:🇲🇶 Although it’s not the official flag but it still changed 4 years ago 🇫🇷

[@zaccabiling1132]

Fun vid :D Now can you do "Countries Anthem that changed since 2000"???

[@Mr_Godmode]

I’m exited for this

[@user-bw7ww6hv1w]

very nice!

[@adairbricenogomez8070]

Bahrain🇧🇭

[@IF69420]

Do evolution of flags since 1980-2000

[@stephaniebarilaro3929]

Make another video please 🙏

[@NIDELLANEUM]

I'm Italian, and I completely forgot that, for 3 years, our flag had a different shade of green. To be fair, I was 10 to 13 in those years, so I doubt I would have noticed/cared about it

[@KingDoctorJordan]

you forgot kovoso

[@NASKER49K]

Nice

[@DJuuJ]

I have an dictionary for kids from 2006 that has a section for flags of the world and most of the flags showed in this video are there, and back in time Libya's flag always stood out to me and my friends, it is so simple, yet so iconic Also in this dictionary the flag of Angola is the 2003 proposal, it looks similar to Costa Rica's flag, but the red stripe is bigger and it has a sun in the middle, i read that they never used this flag, so i don't know why it's there

[@NIDELLANEUM]

The reason why green has always been my favourite colour is that, when I was a little kid, there was this list of flags of the world, which I loved, and Libya's green rectangle just stood out so much that it captivated me

[@Ryuko-T72]

I have something similar, but from 2011. It was a pack of flash cards that had flags and stats.

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

The old Libya flag seems to be homage to plain Red Banner that the Paris Commune and the revolutions in Germany, Russia, etc. used.

[@TheEpikalREKT]

I had flag flash cards too!

[@user-lk7jk3fq2r]

It does remember

[@Koly___]

Cool video

[@phyllisthwaites3267]

That was very interesting. Great content.

[@perla5465]

Rwanda had an actual R on it 😭 😭

[@Face-BankMan]

RRRRR

[@dougxvale]

I can "From this to this" all day

[@I_HAVE_MOVED_ACCOUNTS]

great video, remember me when your super big :)

[@IF69420]

You forgot Bahamas (Flag change: November 27th 2006)

[@catalinghita4440]

Oh

[@jaedenb3795]

Such a great educational video! ❤🎉 Edit: And also I wasn't even expecting a lot of countries to change!

[@mattthebfdiandagufan1st772]

In 2023, South Sudan and Kyrgyzstan changed their flags too

[@StephanieG_YT]

12:50 That’s 49 changes.

[@zanekubba5344]

I thought I remembered the Honduras flag being the one with the dark blue one

[@Sapphirn-cb5sx]

Nice!

[@TheWorldsLargestOven]

I saw a flag of Myanmar on a book of national countries that uses the older flag. I also saw a flag of france and the name was "french"

[@theyluvlunar.]

the one myanmar (burma at the time) reminded me of taiwan 🇹🇼

[@Ihavenoidea-dm3wd]

"How many times would you like to change your flag?" Afghanistan: yes

[@ferudunatakan]

It actually changed in 2021 and they didn't change the emoji🇦🇫

[@JakeStevyson]

@@ferudunatakan I think they refusing for doing Taliban thing

[@footfungus]

​@@ferudunatakanbecause they changed in 2021 because of Taliban occupation

[@ceecurs]

​@@footfungustechnically liberation, Taliban used to rule the country before us occupied it.

[@MainAccountLOLOLOL]

nice

[@nathancomixproductions466]

I have made a video about old flags on KidPix once.

[@eoinruttle6059]

Good video

[@martychisnall]

Technically all the ones that just specify the colours don’t count as changes, because they’re retroactively saying that was always what the flag was supposed to look like.

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

I'd only include the ones that have distinguishable changes, like Mongolia's.

[@legendary102]

Fun fact: no flags are made out of Dimethyl mercury.

[@chayo9146ify]

does anyone else like the old 1:2 aspect ratio on the turkmenistan flag? maybe it's just me because i like long flags

[@user-vj8dn8ih8j]

9:27 South Sudan changed in 2023 from dark blue to light blue

[@Fabless_Bass]

7:37 I'm Ecuadorian, and I never knew that my country has changed its flag 😮, there aren't too many differences in the new flag 🇪🇨

[@cjacsecretariat7853]

I'm French, and me too, i never knew that my country changed its flag in 2020. Quito is like beautiful.

[@0BaderTheRobloxGuy97]

I’m Puerto Rician

[@KarlDeux]

45, most French who are aware of the change (there was no comm on that topic) don't understand why it was changed.

[@borysjurkiewicz5968]

Will you ever make a level up video?

[@suhandinatarusli4846]

Its like fun with flag

[@djclark7772]

Vatican city changed its flag!

[@felymaysuicano]

There is also a color altering from South Sudan.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Turkmenistan is one of my favorite flags because while I typically like a simpler flag, I make an exception for certain flags that look cool because of it being more complex, and Turkmenistan is one of them. There are five stars on the Turkmen flag to represent both the five regions of the country (Ahal, Lebap, Mary, Balkan, and Daşoguz) and the Five Pillars of Islam. A carpet is on the hoist side to signify the historic Turkmen carpet industry. There are five different designs for the five major Turkmen tribes, which from top to bottom are the Teke, Yomut, Saryk, Chowdur, and Ersari. The olive branches at the bottom were added in 1997 to represent peace as Turkmenistan became a neutral country in 1995. And regarding the East Timor/Timor Leste flag, even though the official flag is supposed to have a slanted star, an interesting fact is the flag flown during the independence ceremony in 2002 had a straight star despite the clear specifications and also had an aspect ratio of 1:2. The East Timor flag was designed by Natalino Leitão (who died when Indonesia invaded) was based off the flag of Fretilin which was the dominant party at the time of their original independence in 1975, and it has been assumed that the flag was also inspired by Cuba and Mozambique as Fretilin had sympathies for FRELIMO and their fight for Mozambique independence from Portugal, and Che Guevara.

[@ffaraj7272]

Nah yeah, too long

[@John-pl8fe]

Never knew about the Italian flag. Interesting!!

[@securitealarme2602]

Love contries

[@adairbricenogomez8070]

Santa Lucía🇱🇨

[@Mothxcat]

5:07 they removed the stars tho 🇮🇶

[@user-fe9hr4ok6q]

Japan: we use the same flag for 1200 years

[@bostonrailfan2427]

but change the color multiple times

[@Elfplayzroblox]

Jul 3 2017 is my birthday

[@sotecy1978]

December 9 2011 Saint Vincent and the grandiose flag world

[@m4rauder]

I think we need a sequel to this video by instead of the 2000s to 2020s its the 1970s to 2000s

[@Gabrieleevanfan_2025YT]

3:43 😮

[@MinecraftAxMako]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shaped To 4:3 0:37

[@user-hh3rd5nt1p]

Yotam amity’s has happened to me when

[@djnotbuggy]

🇭🇳 they haven’t changed the honduras flag emoji yet! Edit: Spelling

[@hexyellow9873]

They haven't changed the flag emoji of Martinique either.

[@ryanjustinzimmer]

They also haven‘t changed the flag emoji of Afghanistan yet.

[@Face-BankMan]

Bru

[@dutchempiremapping]

I never knew South Sudan is only 19 days older than me!

[@pokecraft095]

nobody: Afghanistan *changes flag everytime* Me: bruh it's Afghanistan again

[@se6369]

Congo's star got bigger too?

[@superhyenas]

Nice flags

[@daniellecharpier528]

Make a level up Czechia, that would be cool

[@Akiflik]

Part 2 Now

[@i71]

Can you make 1980-2000

[@DubLonia]

As of writing this, I noticed Kyrgyzstan changed it's flag design slightly in December 2023.

[@ethanhall3070]

2023 today yay

[@mojeminifilmy1973]

Cool cool really cool

[@SantaFe19484]

I was not aware of all these flag changes.

[@LibarellerYasasin]

Honduras...

[@ZDavvi]

Now do since 1900 please

[@turkothebacon2998]

can you make the evolution of national flags since 1900 pls?

[@DarAra23]

Lesotho's former flag look like featured Patrick Star😅✌️

[@mateosanchez2170]

And now,Kirgystan has changed its flag

[@PiKaChuITA23]

The italian flag was changed between 2002-4 not 2003/6

[@ErnestJay88]

Most of them are just slightly brighter / darker color or different aspects ratio.

[@CrisisMoon7]

I like flags 11:42pm Nov,19 2023, Sunday

[@samanthasummers7963]

Imagine knitting a flag, and then, your flag changed😂 you would be like OH CMON!

[@kristinanikolova3754]

😂😂

[@bostonrailfan2427]

Betsy Ross agrees 🤣😎

[@maxandlily6074]

Heh, at least it’s not like someone knitting sweaters for an Olympics and those sweaters looked like flags and then one of those flags changed 3 days before that Olympics started and they didn’t have time to make another one. Yup, definitely didn’t happen at all.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@maxandlily6074 …ok which country did this? i heard about the flag that changed due to two countries having the exact same flag but not right before the olympics

[@maxandlily6074]

@@bostonrailfan2427 that was Haiti and Liechtenstein for 1936, I was talking about when Bosnia changed their flag on February 4th, 1998. 3 days before the 1998 Winter Olympics, and they didn’t have time to make another sweater for the child supposedly wearing Bosnia’s flag. So they had to keep the sweater and enter with a now outdated flag, isn’t that a funny story?

[@DamiBoy1]

And it's 365 days until new year

[@nandiweelung501]

I Just See Italy Change The Green

[@Patchworkpalsandanimanimal2020]

Can You Try The Evolution of National Flags Since 1990

[@GootheCountryball]

Uzbekistan

[@Barbara_Tsimintia]

Georgia my country❤❤🇬🇪🇬🇪

[@zanekubba5344]

I thought I remembered the Comoros flag being the one from 1996 to 2001

[@Thrlta]

I was wondering why the French flag had a darker blue than I remember!

[@Omran-official-channel]

Kyrgyzstan flag was changed in 2023 to turn into what an unknown design, because the before the change, as showed a sunflower with represented weakness and unbraved

[@nertilaqafoku]

What about Montenegro raining in pendants in 2006 11:25

[@user-te6rd4vi7t]

mabye in 20 years (i know it's a bit if a strectch) remake the video from 2020 as a part 2