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[@General.Knowledge]

What other unused flags should I have put in the video?

[@RandomGrapeXD]

China should use a new flag with coronavirus. I’m saying that because it would be unused.

[@cassianoneto1553]

Much like you Portuguese cousins, when Brazil became a Republic in 1889 threre was also a contest to choose the new flag, with some looking atrocious. It would fit this video format very well.

[@gifflar1512]

The estonian Nordic cross flag

[@grgv_tom5122]

This video is cool, your animations are super clean and beautiful, it is interesting and I love learning things like this, Thanks 👍 I'm French and when we say "fleur de lys" ⚜, we pronounce the "s" (yep French is complicated)

[@abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742]

It would perhaps be nice to cover Asian and African countries. Your video focused more in western countries with the exception of China.. Possible countries to be included are Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, Egypt.. etc.

[@peggy2983]

I can imagine a world where the New Zealand flag would have been a low-quality stickman on a bicycle.

[@numbercode2486]

Imagine their military using that flag Person 1: Hey, I see a destroyer, can’t tell which country it comes from, can you see the flag? Person 2: Yeah... it seems to have a poorly drawn bicyclist on the flag I’m sorry, it’s just too funny

[@bradwhite5884]

Or the Kiwi shooting lasers out of its eyes, that brings fear to enemies eyes

[@juanfalcon2639]

Amen

[@winnerwinnerporkbellydinner]

Honestly, if any country were to do it, it'd 100% be Australia or New Zealand lol

[@kevintrys9972]

I saw your comments on a video called stereotypes music from around the world

[@Jason-mg3fk]

Slight correction; The US flag used to add stripes for every new states as well as stars. They stopped at 15 stripes and went back to 13, but if you look at the flag in 1812, the so called “star spangled banner” it has 15 stars and 15 stripes

[@nicoleknight9412]

That would have been rather cumbersome after a while. Could you even imagine a flag with fifty stripes as well as stars??

[@ChrisNahrgang]

@@nicoleknight9412 Well obviously when they started with 13 states they hadn't expected to make it all the way up to 50

[@noahsawesomevids422]

@@ChrisNahrgang lol true

[@mr.mcduck]

I came to the comments to point out that mistake but I guess you beat me to it.

[@svenhyberts5558]

And this has 15 stars and 14 stripes 🙂 youtube/QKK8TFeeGBE

[@BlackDobbie]

Creator: How many symbols do you want on your flag? Portugal: Yes.

[@neutral3784]

I can already imagine a parallel universe with these flags

[@TheTennesseeball]

I can’t :(

[@lambo425]

New Zealand blew it. They had some amazing designs uniquely tied to their history and culture to chose from. The current flag looks like Australia lite. Smh.

[@leightonpearson1407]

Yup, though, I do think the red and blue fern flag will rear its head again.

[@atarumoroboshi3500]

Go Maori Haka Haka 🖤🌀💚💪🏽 Union Jack va a casa fuori !!

[@philwilson4167]

I mean, the current flag is also tied to their history and culture. The four stars represent the southern cross and are common on oceanic nations flags. The Union Jack is obviously part of their history and current commonwealth membership. I agree some of the new designs were amazing though

[@jeffreycrawley1216]

No, I think you'll find NZ got their flag in 1902, Australia in 1954 so who did the copying?

[@NovikNikolovic]

@@jeffreycrawley1216 both flags are just a version of the British flag, so... Both of them.

[@ecurewitz]

Not only was John Paul Jones a US naval commander, but also played bass for Led Zeppelin. Truly a man of many talents

[@therossionfan]

@M this sounds like a quote

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

TheRossionFan xD

[@PACKERMAN2077]

I thought he was the emissary from Mars for the Intergalactic League of Justice.

[@jaimetawil6936]

PAKTRA PRODUCTIONS not yet

[@howardthealien2606]

PAKTRA PRODUCTIONS this is history not Stupid DC Universe

[@michaelrobson5228]

The U.S. flag has not always had just thirteen stripes. Initially, as states were added, they added both a stripe and a star. It got up to fifteen of each (the “Star Spangled Banner” that flew over Fort McHenry) before it was decided that the flag was getting too crowded and they went back to thirteen stripes but still adding a new star for each new state.

[@chrisca]

4:39 Top to bottom, left to right. Spain's old flag Spain's current flag Spanish Vietnam Spanish Conchinchina Spanish Scandinavia Spanish Norway Spanish Sweden Spanish Vietnam (alt version) Sweden Weird Flag Weird Flag Spanish White Ruthenia Spanish Tuscany Spanish Austria (reverse card those Habsburgs)

[@Thomas-tc7hp]

No one: New Zealand kiwi flag: so anyway I started blasting

[@pablolm1992]

I prefer the guy on the bike one

[@r3dpowel796]

New zealand ones looks cool tho.

[@PeruvianPotato]

Why do these stupid no one: comments get likes?

[@Cjnw]

Normie

[@Cjnw]

@@PeruvianPotato They are #normies with unoriginal content

[@TheBigRedskull]

If I remember correctly, the stripes were originally added for each new state aswell, but this was changed to just 13 because it became too cluttered.

[@the8thgemmer467]

That’s true

[@Xarosy]

No, it’s 13 for the original 13 colonies

[@korogaru213]

@@Xarosy Redskull is right. The US flag had 15 stars and 15 stripes from 1795 to 1818. This flag is also called the Star Spangled Banner flag, because it's the flag that Francis Scott Key saw when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner.

[@afasoccerguy]

You are correct. It was initially 1 star and 1 stripe but as pointed out, after the 15 Stars and Stripes version, “Star Spangled Banner”, they decided to keep it thirteen because adding stripes would make it too cluttered and hard to replicate

[@elliepurser7867]

Imagine if they let that up until Hawaii and Alaska were admitted, 50 stripes.

[@SinuheBE]

Thank you for your interesting videos. The Spanish flag adopted during the reign of Carlos III wasn't exactly a "war flag". It was just a flag FOR THE ROYAL NAVY and the COASTAL FORTIFICATIONS (therefore linked with the Navy). Well into the 19th century, Spanish Army units and the local militias everywhere in the Spanish possesions used the white flag with Saint Andrew's cross in red, the "Burgundian Cross", which came to Spain from the Low Countries with Charles I (as King mof Spain) or V (as Emperor) about 1516. It was the flag used by the Dukes of Burgundy who were also Lords of the Low Countries (Dukes of Brabant, Counts of Flanders, Holland and Hainaut, Marquises of Namur, etc...). It was continued by the army and militia units after the arrival of the House of Bourbon in 1700. During the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, during Nelson's attack on the town and port, the flag hoisted in the castles or forts was the red-gold, but the flags used by the militia and army was the white one with the red Burgundian cross. This flag could have been the Spanish flag, it was the traditional one since the early 16th century, but probably because its origin was in the House of Habsburg -"Low Countries branch"-, the monarchs of the House of Bourbon prefered to have it changed. In the mid 19th century, the red-gold flag was used also by army units and became the national flag. Nowadays, many "standards" (estandartes) of Spanish military units continue to be based on the Burgundian flag, sometimes red cross on white field, or red cross in yellow field, etc... The flags still hoisted in historic American places, like fortresses in Puerto Rico, Habana, Florida, California, etc... are those of the red Burgundian cross on white field, because this was the flag still used in the 19th century. There is also a curiosity, which even most Spaniards ignore: the Carlos III design was used ONLY by the Royal Navy. The merchant fleet used another design you have showed for the contest: yellow, with two red stripes near the upper and lower borders, but with a yellow stripe separating them from these borders. It actually was a flag which was closer to the one adopted in the 20th century by South Vietnam.

[@pizzaburger21]

Bro wrote an essay

[@timkang6338]

11:47 Imagine trying to draw that barcode flag without a ruler

[@nicoleknight9412]

Talk about having too much going on!

[@unionmen2312]

“Ferb I know what we’re going to do today!” *changes Spanish flag*

[@mikemontlion3934]

Hey i...

[@charlesjakesamadan4008]

Lmao

[@cghbv1585]

lol the characters look like ferb

[@noelikechukwuazubogu2211]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kingace6186]

I read it in Phineas's voice lol

[@Brunozamp]

6:19 how many symbols you want in the flag? Portuguese: *YES*

[@adnanbashirabdi9627]

Portugal*

[@tinygalaxygamer5440]

Adnan Bashir Abdi *portugeuse

[@blitzz_wing9078]

I'm Portuguese and I would have unsweared "caralho"

[@tobiassanchez455]

i like their flag

[@howardthealien2606]

Brunozamp the Mandalorian

[@yaboi494]

9:58 Lol imagine if China used the flag that looks like it has a virus symbol on it

[@MrChinchilla_hn]

That could be very meaningful.

[@phonzylover911]

Haha Death how funny

[@rose-qk1xy]

that's kinda racist

[@estrellaisabelferrer5874]

Yes on 2020, China should have replaced the stars with Viruses LOL.

[@phonzylover911]

@@estrellaisabelferrer5874 ?

[@Cookie-nr8xl]

You are amazing. You don’t clickbait, you explain thoroughly and I am adding you to my “trusted educational channels”

[@_BlackKnight]

Everyone makes map: New Zealand: what abou- oh ok.... I just go then....

[@thinrose]

Australia: Good day, cousin... or brother, maybe enemy? Friend???

[@statoilbensin2190]

《RoseyBloom》 ?

[@atarumoroboshi3500]

Go Maori Haka Haka 🖤🌀💚💪🏽 Union Jack va a casa fuori !!

[@scootergrant8683]

@@atarumoroboshi3500 ?

[@bruhz_089]

@@thinrose brother

[@Ari22682]

1:35 They tried adding a new stripe for each new state along with the stars, but they quickly saw that would get out of hand.

[@amberhiggins6327]

Yes, at one time the U.S flag had up to 15 stripes. In 1795, the number of stars and stripes was increased from 13 to 15 (to reflect the entry of Vermont and Kentucky as states of the Union). For a time the flag was not changed when subsequent states were admitted, probably because it was thought that this would cause too much clutter.

[@whodis2614]

And the naval flag that was created was made in the spur of the moment by the Netherlands because they had no American naval flag. The captain had to either use the flag or be arrested in the Netherlands.

[@happyfacefries]

US does it

[@risannd]

@@amberhiggins6327 they changed it back to 13 stripes when 5 states joined the Union in the 1810s-20s

[@ralphmills7322]

The poem that became the "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key was for the 15 striped flag using during the War of 1812.

[@Kam3L8]

Thx for your video. You'd had a lot of work and searching to get this great outcome of complete video.

[@turkyinterista3334]

I love how you relate your information to the thumbnail.. makes it feel you are stating that this is not a clickbait at all 😊❤️

[@iogaming6132]

Purple: Why am I never used by anyone in flags?

[@thorstenfinke2751]

purple is associated with nobility and was for example the colour of the byzantine empire. Most countries are republics or dictatorships and henceforth dont want to be associated with it. An exeption is maybe the flag for republic spain.

[@LustrousProblems]

I think Bolivian flag (I may be wrong ) has purple in it.

[@j.cr.1207]

After Skool has a video about that, I think it was because purple was a super expensive color

[@iogaming6132]

@@LustrousProblems I checked it and I saw no purple.

[@LustrousProblems]

@@iogaming6132 it's in the coat of arms of two countries. Not as one of the main colours.

[@abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742]

I honestly prefer the pre-1910 flag of Portugal.. They could have kept the same flag to maintain the legacy, and removed the crown since it's no longer a monarchy.

[@BOIZADAS]

true indeed

[@marc-antonio]

I agree :/

[@firstnamelastname-uw6vq]

It's awesome flag but it really associates me with monarchy because it's the same colours like fleur de lis which also is a monarchy flag. I think they made a good decision changing it to their current one. The colours associate me with like the southern europe's mediterranean climate for some reason but yeah it's a good flag

[@LHollan]

first name last name passing just to remember you Portugal isn’t a Mediterranean country, but a Atlantic one... it’s out of Mediterranean sea

[@marc-antonio]

@@LHollan He said "Mediterranean climate", not location

[@patrickgrisley]

Great video mate! From a fellow flag obsessed person. New Zealand really dropped the ball on the laser beam kiwi🤪

[@pretzlsports25]

"Flags influence the colours of the nation sports teams" The Aussie flag: Red, White & Blue The Aussie sports teams colours: Green & Gold

[@zapre2284]

Italy , Germany and New Zealand come to mind too

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

Green and gold/yellow is also Jamaica's and Brazil's sports team colours.

[@pretzlsports25]

@@_Just_Another_Guy They have it on their flags though

[@douglaspeer1826]

Too many red white and blue sports teams - have to look different lol. Doesn't Slovenia use neon green too?

[@noelikechukwuazubogu2211]

@@zapre2284 Blue is Italy's Royal Colour, White is Germany's Royal colour. Portugal sometimes wear white and blue as well as Spain - Royal Colours.

[@breadskii]

13:32 i wish this won lol

[@matiasguerra591]

Me too

[@mjaned0528]

yeah i also wished

[@arincornstar47_]

Yes

[@aixx7499]

Kiwi flag is the best flag ever ! *CHANGE MY MIND*

[@SoryRN]

Àłì xX I won’t Change your mind

[@happywombat]

Looks like a half assed Australian flag with a dash of red so no one can accuse it of being copied.

[@kshatrapavan]

Ever seen the Liberian county flags? I rest my case.

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Lmao nice one

[@Void_tear3123]

Àłì xX no one can because it’s a fact

[@eliseonoriegacolin5179]

I Though i was weird for to be so interested on these subjects... Thank you... Awesome video 👍

[@thetransplanner]

The US did add stripes to the flag when Vermont and Kentucky came into the union, but when it was Tennessee's turn, they realized that the flag would become unwieldy after a while and reverted back to 13 to signify the original states.

[@oijosuke9879]

Petition for Poorly drawn kid in a bicycle flag to become an official national flag one day

[@happyfacefries]

Sign me up!

[@MrChinchilla_hn]

The pre schoolers will love it.

[@ArtzSlebew]

Signed

[@vallowe1366]

as a kiwi this would be better than us representing britain on our flag

[@melbtwen3986]

ahahaha, I'll sign it

[@brandonvistan7444]

Germany with a Nordic cross looked kind of cool.

[@Fumango]

Gotta agree definitely looks better than the us wannabe flag

[@MakotoAtava]

It is called the Wirmer Flagge, a flag designed by Josef Wirmer, a german resistance fighter against the nazis.

[@norsborg2379]

I'm glad they didn't use the nordic cross, only nordic countries should use it.

[@uryen921]

I have the same feeling. Germany and the Nordic countries are Germanic countries, I don't see it weird. Btw, a Nordic cross England flag looks cool too.

[@Cythil]

Yes. I would say that some were willing, drawing the connection to the Nordic countries. What a Nordic country, is it a can be a bit vague anyway. Yes. One could say it a bunch of Germanic countries up in the north. But Finland main population is Finnic. And Sami and Inuit are other major ethnic groups. (On that note, Greenland is the only Nordic Territory that do not have a Nordic cross). Traditionally, the Baltic countries are not included as Nordic countries. But there have been movements, especially in Estonia, for the recognition of these countries as Nordic. Both Sweden and Denmark used to hold territories in the Baltic. Similar part of the British Isles, Normandy and Germany were under control of Nordic countries or the Norse. And I am pretty sure that if Germany had gone for a Nordic cross, then they may very well have seen themselves as a Nordic county. Who knows. But there was a bit of an issue with that design. I quite like the flags. But some would like to draw an association to the time Germany actually used a Nordic cross flag. That during the Nazi regime with the War Ensign being a Nordic cross design. Though also Teutonic Order used a Nordic cross flag so it not a unheard design in the region.

[@kuyachamp7618]

13:10 I like that flag on the top left it should've been the official flag of New Zealand, one of the best and most unique flags I've ever seen.

[@gaspo2880]

I completely agree! I can't believe it wasn't the most popular one there

[@davidkermes376]

i liked the proposal for new zealand where the union jack in the corner was changed to reflect a maori art motif. a real stunner, that one !

[@ApplezzMapping]

I like this guy, he goes thumbnail first Instead of just forgetting about the whole thumbnail and not doing it at all *Cough* clickbait *cough*

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

11:23 That one star flag looks like the result of combining the Vietnamese and Palauan flags

[@abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742]

Or the flag of Somalia 🇸🇴

[@fcalvaresi]

Hurrah for the Bonnie blue flag that bears a single star 🇸🇴

[@meryuk]

It reminds me of Converse.

[@sweetballs4742]

Tbh, I think that flag exist already in one of the nations in Africa before (just make it more bluish). It's called Congo Free State and you don't want to know what happened on that country back in 1800s.

[@brandonvistan7444]

Oh, it does.

[@madilops]

This felt like i was watching a Sheldon Cooper presents Fun with Flags episode but less awkward. Loved it though! Very interesting stuff!!

[@colejustice1383]

there were actually 15 stripes on the 15 star US flags, but after more were added it started getting crowded, so they switched it back.

[@fauteuil1046]

"A white leaf" IS IT THE GREAT SILVER FERN YOU'RE TALKING OF?

[@dianacamacho9575]

More like *a pink leaf.*

[@pabloznotti6883]

yeah nah, looks like a white feather.

[@barsov0078]

Very good video. New Subscriber from Spain!

[@tryfonpapadopoulos6808]

Great videos. Good job. What program do you use to make these?

[@ACook94]

Welcome to Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags

[@EGMusic12]

haha

[@RTankist]

XD

[@binaway]

Canada wanted to keep Quebec happy with a a less Anglo flag. The Maple Leaf flag had no historic bias. It was politically neutral.

[@Cjnw]

What aboot maple syrup?

[@GoneFeralWithSquidly]

binaway, that is the most Canada factoid ever.

[@mls5160]

It's very original and it does represent Canada quite well. Why keeping a flag representing colonialism when you're an independent country? That's not history worth glorifying.

[@tommitchell1908]

M LS The Canadian people are the descendants of those British colonisers, colonialism is the only history they have excluding native populations lol

[@chrisnation1432]

@@mls5160 spoken like a cucky Canuky.

[@DylanUchiha]

13:31 haha Imagine this as a serious flag in a country. If I ever would create a country on my own, this would be the flag.

[@gtripmusic2906]

10:45 You said Peru and Catalonia. I'd say Senegal and the Philippines more.

[@Scbalq]

Senegal and timor leste

[@oswald7597]

I genuinely can't believe the New Zealand flag referendum was 4 years ago now, I felt like it was like a couple months ago.

[@granatapacifica]

5 years now

[@hippugamer6689]

@@granatapacifica 6 years now

[@Nikioko]

4:13: And the Spanish flag isn't correct either. The yellow stripe has double the width of the red stripes so that their ratio is 1:2:1.

[@pantherausf.d6914]

It looks better like that.

[@sterichardsson]

12:32 It was called "The British Commonwealth" only between 1931 and 1949 and thereafter it was known as "The Commonwealth (of Nations)". Calling it "The British Commonwealth" can be offensive to many independent republics for which the monarch of the UK is not the Head of State.

[@sterichardsson]

The Commonwealth is a very strange and difficult-to-explain arrangement. The UK often has complicated political arrangements and relationships which many see as ways of fundamentally changing the way it works and is perceived without changing underlying structures and frameworks. This typical for anything relating to the way Britain manages its sovereignty and constitution, (its political authority operating in countless shades of grey in terms of territories, having a monarch but simultaneously being a democracy and having an "unwritten" (or more accurately uncodified) constitution comprising bits and pieces from countless documents like statutes and the precedent of legal cases going back to the Magna Carta of 1215), as well as political conventions and social consensus, but I'll try to explain in a simple way. The United Kingdom is not the leader of the Commonwealth and the monarch of the UK is not necessarily the Head of the Commonwealth. In fact the Queen's role as monarch is considered ceremonially and legally completely separate from her role as Head of the Commonwealth. This can be seen by looking at: 1. India, which is a republic, so cannot constitutionally have a queen or a king. India is howeve a member of the Commonwealth, which Elizabeth I is the Head of. 2. Prince Charles, which in 2018 was appointed the next Head of the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Before before the Queen made her wishes that Charles succeed her, there was genuine (but hushed) talk and speculation that the appointee be someone else.

[@vallemagnusson9815]

4:34 the flag with the Nordic cross furthest down is basically the flag of Skåne. The most southern part of Sweden that was once danish

[@ZuGa1384]

The kiwi shooting a laser out of its eyes is the best!

[@Farto126]

I think, if Spain chosen the nordic cross, we named today Spanish Cross, and maybe Portugal used a similar patron when they changed their flags, or more American Spanish countries, at that time spanish colonies. In that scenario, maybe the Nordic Countries never chose this cross for their flags. So many thinks may be diferent in vexilology today.

[@statoilbensin2190]

YPG well the nordic cross is not really from the north, it was used on different flags by knights in the crusades.

[@Malakith]

The cross is just a Christian cross but put slightly off centre. It's used by a lot of municipalities across Europe and it's former colonies.

[@fartreta]

The Nordic crosses have been around since the 13th or 14th century. The Danish flag is the blueprint, then the Kalmar Union adopted the cross design, and later the once again autonomous Sweden followed in the 16th century. The other ones are a lot younger though. So this took place hundreds of years before Spain's flag change. Denmark's flag is among the oldest national flags in the world, it might even be the oldest one.

[@tsupi7056]

@@fartreta if you search for the very first flag of Portugal in 1143 you would find out that it is just like what Finland flag looks today... Even before any Nordic country used the cross xD

[@JM-fo1te]

Wut

[@TheGarryq]

1795 Stripes and stars increased from 13 to 15 (to reflect the entry of Vermont and Kentucky) only in 1818 was the number of stripes reduced to thirteen, the number of stars increased to twenty to allow for the newer states and the idea of only the stars changing when a new state was admitted. It was only 1912 that saw an official arrangement of the stars being decreed

[@PrinzOtto]

I enjoyed your presentation look forward to new one

[@obonkey]

Brazil also has quite a few of proposed ones that were never used

[@MissingGamer]

"I think this also took place in 1949" - General Knowledge, 2020

[@dutchstylemapping3846]

“But don’t quote me on that” - General Knowledge, 2020 😂

[@Cjnw]

OK, boomer

[@RoipolloiAhoy02]

During my childhood, we had to make flags from art papers for UN Day in school. Libya used to be pretty popular (with Japan as close 2nd).

[@magnushultgrenhtc]

The Nordic cross in red on yellow was the flag of the 1397-1523 Union of Kalmar. Inverted to yellow on red it's still present in the flags of a region of Finland and a Swedish province. So, both Portugal and Germany chose wisely.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

You’re so close to 250K, that’s the meme milestone. Also the laser kiwi should definitely be the new NZ flag

[@carsivus4866]

Keeps your eyes away from Oceania, Kim.

[@carsivus4866]

@Zyler Where you from? Aussie, kiwi, PNG or the islands?

[@atarumoroboshi3500]

Go Maori Haka Haka 🖤🌀💚💪🏽 Union Jack va a casa fuori !!

[@carsivus4866]

@@atarumoroboshi3500 I'm pakeha so idk what you just said 😂

[@noelikechukwuazubogu2211]

like duh!😅😅😅

[@TheRealBigM]

I can't overemphasize how much I respect you for explaining the thumbnail first. It is such a refreshing thing to see among all those KZbinrs who leave their viewers dangling in order for them to watch the full video. Keep it up, love your content 😄

[@expertgym.colombia7375]

12:50 New Zealand refferendum Flag 😍🌿

[@walterzamalis4846]

Bit of context from a New Zealander on why we voted to keep our flag. Our flag is little thought of and widely disliked in New Zealand- it’s pretty much universally seen as boring, inherently colonial, unrepresentative, and looks too similar to Australia (who did actually copy us, but that’s another story). There’s no real enthusiasm for it at all. But the Prime Minister who organised the flag referendum, the conservative John Key, did so at a time when we were experiencing a horrendous housing crisis and increased levels of poverty. Instead of addressing that, he wasted $26 million on some blown up corporate logo-like designs to be put to a vote. The good designs were sidelined because Key refused to appoint graphic designers to the board which shortlisted the designs submitted. The vote to keep the flag was a, largely, just a protest vote against that, and Key’s party lost the next election. But also it was because if we had chosen a terrible design, which we marginally preferred to the status quo, for an enormous price, we likely would not have gotten a chance to change it when something better came around. TL;DR - it cost too much, the designs were awful, and we didn’t want to forfeit a future vote on a good alternative.

[@superflag8982]

Soup. Edit: Sopa

[@superflag8982]

@delonix regia soup

[@luigicampagnollo604]

We’re not destroying the Amazon Rainforest because we like to do it. Amazon’s exploration dates back from the colonial times. So Portugal started with it, and they culturally implied that we should extract the nature in a very bad way.

[@superflag8982]

@@luigicampagnollo604 sopa

[@luigicampagnollo604]

super flag Verdade kkkkkk

[@cassianoneto1553]

During 1817-1821 Portugal kinda was European Brazil.

[@the8thgemmer467]

Bosnia and Herzevogina had some nice proposals. My country, Cyprus, had a proposal (selected by the former British colonial governor for the then-newly independent cyprus) which was a white field with a rust-brown K

[@bengu3987]

The8th Gemmer omg I’m also Cypriot

[@the8thgemmer467]

Bengu Beyar Ha Ha! What a coincidence! 😊 It’s very rare for me to find other Cypriots in youtube, except for stupid nationalists

[@MasterMinecraftHHDD]

I'm from Spain and I'm very interested in your country, all my life I thought that Cyprus was just one country that controlled to whole island, when a few years ago I read about Northern Cyprus. How do you feel about it there? And how are the things there? Cause here in schools we are taught that there's just one Cyprus and sadly no one seems interested in this conflict.

[@the8thgemmer467]

MrHadex The story of Cyprus is a complicated one, and it’s basically impossible to find good sources on the internet. I’ll try to explain it the best I can: Cyprus was first settled by Western Asian communities, but at some point the influence of the Hellenic City-States in Cyprus escalated. At around the 10th century BC Cyprus was completely Hellenic, with the same religion, system of city-states and culture. Eventually Cyprus became Christian and came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire. It remained this way until it was conquered by Richard the Lionheart, and many centuries later it came under the rule of the Ottomans. During the Ottoman era many Cypriots converted to Islam and some married Turkish people, forming what is now known as the Turkish Cypriots community. During the time of the Greek revolution Cyprus failed to join Greece, but the Greek-Cypriots community still supported union with Greece (later dubbed “enosis”). This ideology, however, failed to realize that there was a very large (about 15-30%) portion of the population which was not Greek Orthodox. During the Ottoman era taxes were collected by the Church of Cyprus, which thus enjoyed considerable power (and inevitably corruption). In 1878, Cyprus came under the rule of the British. This was welcomed by the Greek Cypriots, who believed that coming under the rule of “fellow Christians” was a good sign towards enosis. However, the British proved to be much worse than expected. For one, they introduced high taxes, because they had to pay a loan to the Ottoman Empire for the island and it was decided that this would be payed from money acquired by the Cypriots. Also, the British considerably lowered the Power of the Church (arguably, this is a good thing, but it was basically the Church who ruled the Greek Cypriots which lead to more hatred to the Church). The Greek-Cypriots thus continued to long for “enosis.” In 1914 when the Ottoman Empire joined the Germans in WW1 the British stopped paying rent to the Ottomans and thus taxes were hugely lowered. At some point in the war the British asked the King of Greece (who supported the Germans) to join them, and in return they would give him Cyprus. The king of Greece declined. The period of 1914-1930 was a pretty good one for Cyprus, even though it was a colony it enjoyed considerable autonomy and taxes were lowered. But during the wall street crash Cyprus became much poorer, and the Cypriots burnt the colonial governor’s estate while in a riot. As a result, the British punished the Greek Cypriots severely, with rising taxes, lesser autonomy and a harsh enforcement of the law. The church of Cyprus also begun to lose its power and pro-enosis sentiment begun to rise rapidly, with frequent protests, rallies and nationalist demonstrations. The Turkish-Cypriots were obviously against this. Now, the case with the Turkish Cypriots was that a majority of them were either leftists or centrists, but these political units were not organized, whereas the nationalist right was organized and formed political parties and armed militias. In 1950 the Church of Cyprus held a referendum, where greek Cypriots would mark their approval of enosis in Churches. The Church found that over 96% of Greek Cypriots approved of enosis and turned to the united nations, but then the archbishop died and was succeeded by the young bishop Makarios of Kitium, who became Makarios III. Realizing the danger to their important colony, decided to implement a strategy of “divide and conquer.” They started a period of even harsher dictatorship, banning, for example, all use of the Greek flag. The British were basically trying to get the Greek Cypriots to take up arms, so that they could turn them against the Turkish Cypriots and maintain their own influence over the island. As a result of this harsh dictatorship, the archbishop Makarios III indeed decided to take up arms against to British (even though this was basically a trap). He contacted Greek-Cypriot Commander George Grivas, who lived in Greece (Makarios didn’t know this but Grivas had allied with the Nazis in WW2). They formed EOKA, and the British tried to turn EOKA against the Turkish Cypriots instead of them. They sent Makarios in exile to the Seychelles si that Grivas, who was more prone to killing Turkish Cypriots and Greek-Cypriot Communists, would take over EOKA. He did, and the British then enlisted Turkish Cypriot far right militias (who supported “taksim,” or division of the islands to a Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Part) in their police to fight EOKA. They then provided the Cypriots with a plan for independence. This plan, however, was made in a way to sustain British influence in the island. The plan deliberately over represented Turkish Cypriots in bodies such as parliament, while not providing for separate government, so that no side got what they wanted and both sides would inevitably fight each other. All this while the British also forced the Cypriots to sign a treaty giving them the right of sovereignty certain parts of Cyprus and to deploy troops in others. This treaty also gave Greece and Turkey the right to intervene militarily in Cypriot affairs. Far right nationalists in both sides (Greek or Turkish) continued to slaughter each other, and the USA was also very worried about the rise of communism in Cyprus, as around 30% of Greek Cypriots were communist. The idea of enosis begun to be questioned by the more moderate Greek Cypriots (including Makarios III, who was also elected president), especially when a military dictatorship overthrew the Greek government, but far right nationalists, including Grivas, still supported enosis. At some point, fighting escalated between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot nationalists. It was basically decided to divide the island among the Greek Government and Turkish Government at some point, by Britain, Turkey, Greece and the USA. The USA feared the rise of communist and believed that Cyprus should be controlled by its two Nato-allies of Greece and Turkey. The UK supported in-fighting within the Cypriots as it distracted them from their military presence in the island, and Turkey and Greece both wanted to control land in this strategically important location. And so in 1974 the Greek junta overthrew Makarios (but failed to kill him) and selected a puppet president, Nikos Sampson, to rule Cyprus for them, while also giving Turkey an excuse to invade the island by slaughtering Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish army landed on Lapithos in 1974 and conquered Keryneia. Then, however, under a confusing set of circumstances, the Greek dictatorship fell. Because of this a peacekeeping force forced the Turkish army to cease its advance. Then, the Turkish army sent thousands of soldiers to its occupied part of Cyprus and advanced to conquer far more land than had been agreed by them and the former Greek Dictatorship. In 1984, Northern Cyprus, occupied by Turkey, declared independence from Cyprus as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, whch is internationally recognized as being a Turkish puppet state. But how was it for the Cypriots? Imagine your a Greek Cypriot, living peacefully in a village, coexisting with the Turkish Cypriots of that village, and then this invasion happens. You are forced to abandon your friends, property and money, and relocate to a Southern part of Cyprus and start your life from scratch. Or imagine you’re a Turkish Cypriot, who, under this monstrous Greek dictatorship in Cyprus, is facing violent prosecution and is unsure about whether or not they will survive. Today, most Cypriots want to reunify. It is unfortunately true that nationalism still exists, but it is much lower than before. Most of us just want a united Cyprus where we will coexist again and will have the right to go back to our old property (Turkish Cypriot villages in the South were seized by the Greek military in 1974 to force the Turkish Cypriots to relocate to the north and Greek Cypriot villages in the North were seized by the Greek military in 1974 to force the Greek Cypriots to relocate to the South).

[@themobstar58]

@@the8thgemmer467 thanks for sharing, very interesting!

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

The US flag has not always had 13 stripes. Initially, stripes were added along with stars with each new state added to the Union. The famous Star Spangled Banner has 15 stripes. Eventually, it would be limited to 13 stripes as it became impractical to keep adding additional stripes.

[@Rod2912]

Bring us one more video with this subject, it's very interesting

[@lucashenriquedg3364]

i would like a new flag of New zeland to be the kiwi firing laser, it would be cool.

[@anarchomando7707]

Definitely a unique flag

[@MrChinchilla_hn]

And science fiction challenge!!!

[@epiclazer8742]

New Zealand*

[@kingace6186]

NOBODY would dare mess with New Zealand with a flag like that.

[@DirtyBirdPodcast]

The red white and blue stripes lookin’ kinda hot, ngl

[@12.7x99mm]

Agreed

[@tlam3028]

@ex ori it’s a nice flag to simp for

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

fun fact: Canada used golden maple leafs in a few occasions, mainly during WW2, to help identify Canadian vehicles and infantry among themselves and the red and white flag was sort of adopted into a special flag insignia that troops uses to identify each other in the darkness which is kind of the current flag but with an X on it essentially letting the soldier know "friendly unit, Canadian origin" and its mostly visible with night vision which all infantry uses in night operations

[@wileybatista795]

Love your content

[@Nikioko]

12:00: The twelve stars don't represent the member countries, it represents the twelve members of the Council of Europe in 1949. And 12 is a sublime number representing perfection.

[@jdhabdsudcbld]

I guess it makes sense that "i just found 12 bricks" is also sublime

[@Nikioko]

@@jdhabdsudcbld Of course. How do you arrange them? 2x6? 3x4? Or triangular 2-3-4-3? So many possibilities.

[@bandie9101]

12 stars in a circle is also a biblical reference in book of John's Revelations

[@cv4809]

There were 12 gods in Olympus...

[@runningcommentary2125]

It also saves them the inconvenience of changing the flag each time the Union gains or loses a member.

[@j.cr.1207]

I wish they had kept the blue and white from the portuguese monarchy flag, they were there since the beginning of our country history (and for me are prettier than red and green 😁)

[@trlacr1781]

Yeah I agree, although I think it would look better if the colours and coat of arms were a bit off-centered to the left like the current one

[@rodrigodias3643]

so dizes isso pq deves ser portista

[@Kathkere]

The green and red is more unique though! When you see those two colours combined you think of no other country than Portugal.

[@afdiego2193]

Também acho que deveria ser azul e branca, para mim a bandeira anterior representa as cores do primeiro escudo de armas (escudo de armas de D.Afonso Henriques) enquanto a atual só representa o governo atual do país (República), ou seja foi substituída uma bandeira com as cores nacionais por outra que têm as cores de um regime político

[@j.cr.1207]

@@rodrigodias3643 Não, de todo 😂😂 Nada contra o porto mas a cor do meu clube é outra

[@heberrodriguez7215]

You are not alone. I also love flags!

[@wendiqiu3225]

The cross on the Chinese flag was by far the weirdest... I have never heard of it! I also liked the “Roman empire style” flag like you! The symbol in the middle means “workers” in Chinese. By the way, you would be pleased to know that the star with two blue stripes on the red background flag was made into the Chinese PLA naval ensign.

[@MewxPro]

Actually the US flag did add more stripes for a short time. 15 stripes when we added Kentucky and Vermont. We then switched back to 13.

[@LuziFearon]

German here, the colours black red gold where around at least since the napoleonic wars

[@DeutschlandMapping]

Those 3 colors can also be found on the flag of the Holy Roman Empire

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

It was more South German than the White one

[@DeutschlandMapping]

@@justanotheremptychannel2472 No it was for whole Germany (Also Austria and Liechtenstein back then). The other was a less liberal one from the North German Confederation. So that's true. The white one was a North German one, but the black, red and golden one were for all German states.

[@brittakriep2938]

@@justanotheremptychannel2472 : The black white red flag of the Kaiserreich was a combination of prussian black white and the red oft Berlin.

[@brittakriep2938]

@@SaneGlobe418 : My english is not so good. In fact, the other kingdoms, great duchies, dutchies, principalities and free hanseatic towns had been vassals of Prussia, which represented more than 60% of the german population, and in these part of parlament, where there had been representatives oft all german states Prussia had more representatives than all the other states. When ALL oft the smaller states would have worked together, they could have slow down prussian wishes, but this happened rare. But the term vassal was not used, it was spoken of ,Allied Gouvernements'. But Prussia and the Emperor could not officially intertervent in into things happening in the small states. So up to the time of Hitler there had been a lot of differences between the german states. Also there had been Reservatrechte/ special rights in the different states, thet the emperor not had. A not so easy situatition. This Reservatrechte and the fact, that the larger ones of the small Staates could keep their lifestyle, prevented uprisings against Prussia.

[@josephbingham1255]

Very interesting considered designs. 10:34 The center might be an "i" beam used in building construction to represent industry. The wheat of course is agriculture - food and security for the people.

[@diegoferreiro9478]

Fun not-much-known fact: The proposed Spanish 5-horizontal bar (three alternating yellow bars with two red bars) as shown in the video as one of the contenders for the naval flag (*) became the effective Spanish merchant marine flag until the 20th Century interwar period (maybe 1927). (*) The 1785 contest sought for a flag for the Spanish Navy, not a general military flag. Probably the design stuck for its simplicity and visibility and became the national flag very soon after its adoption by the Navy.

[@Yora21]

5:52 Blue touching green! This gives me a vexillogical stroke!

[@AliansyahKevin]

Globe: Am I A Joke To You?

[@le_abonnus]

Djibouti, Comoros, South Sudan:

[@LSSD1292]

9:53 china was colonised by Hellas (Greece)

[@Cjnw]

The People's Republic of China, Formerly Known as East Macedonia 😛

[@johngan9195]

and then switch to the "Roman Empire" flag *you will come as a lightning*

[@arvindlaxman9347]

A solid competition for Sheldon's Fun with Flags🤣🤣🤣

[@ahmadbdeiwi7395]

Yes please talk about some of future proposed flags.

[@StoicFighter]

I have mad respect for you for talking about what is actually on your thumbnail first. I hope you have a good day :)

[@ItzBIULDmusic]

1:43 not always, there was a time when they changed the stripes for the states, but it was changed back to 13

[@jackguest145]

Yeah it went 13, to 15, to 13

[@richardmorin5967]

Actually, at one time the USA flag had at least 15 stripes with the same number of stars. lt was decided that as more states were added, more stripes would become cumbersome. So, the number of stripes was reduced back to 13, representing the 13 original states. The stars, however, continued to increase with one more star per new state.

[@IamMrLebanon]

Thank you for this video. And I would love to see a video about a potential Scotland less United Kingdom!

[@Arun-ei7wt]

The german flag that was finally picked was a former flag that was used in the german revolution that ended 1848

[@_Yume_mp]

I believe the revolutionary flag had the German eagle in the top left corner, with yellow/golden background as well

[@dominik8306]

@@_Yume_mp no one cares

[@chiefkeef74]

I can think of a certain German flag that needs to return

[@Arun-ei7wt]

@@chiefkeef74 sussy baka

[@ifer1280]

I'm still disappointed that New Zealand didn't choose that beautiful flag. Why would they want to keep that knockoff Australian flag? (and no, i'm not referring to the laserkiwi flag)

[@tylerq-b3001]

Straya flag is knockoff nz flag nz used it first

[@bingola45]

@@tylerq-b3001 Aren't they both simply the Naval ensigns?

[@leightonpearson1407]

Cause, it wasn't beautiful. The choice should have been the red and blue flag, it would have passed. On a NORMAL kiwi day, I see it at least 10 times still, and that is in a town of only 5,000.

[@atarumoroboshi3500]

Go Maori Haka Haka 🖤🌀💚💪🏽 Union Jack va a casa fuori !!

[@paranoidrodent]

@@leightonpearson1407 Do you figure it will get proposed again, once enough time has passed and people don't associate it with an unpopular politician?

[@RachnaVardhan]

you have amazing videos!(:!(:

[@colorfulmarbles156]

Fun fact. The United States originally added 1 stripe as the 14th and next few states joined until they decided 13 stripes.

[@sailorplays7391]

13:31 BEST FLAG EVER! 😂

[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

Speaking of Canada, a bunch of Provinces still use something similar to the old Canadian flag, take the Ontario flag where theres the red background, Union Jack in the top left, and a Ontario shielf with 3 grains of wheat. Everytime I see the Ontario flag as an Ontarian, I think of that song "Good things grow in Ontario!"

[@paranoidrodent]

Ontario's flag has no wheat on it. It's a triple maple leaf. Saskatchewan's flag does have 3 sheaves of wheat on the coat of arms in the upper left. Ontario's current flag flag has a triple maple leaf similar to the one on Canada's coat of arms, only in gold on a green background rather than red and white (since gold and green are Ontario's colours). The Ontarian and Manitoban flags are red ensigns specifically because the provincial governments of the day hated the idea of adopting the current Maple Leaf and so they adopted red ensigns mimicking the old late colonial red ensign (which was only ever an unofficial flag - albeit it did fly over Parliament Hill and get used on military uniforms before the Maple Leaf). So yes, two of our provincial flags are the leftover results of provincial politicians having a hissy fit over the Maple Leaf, a flag that is now beloved and broadly considered one of the most recognizable flags in the world. Go figure. Different times.

[@switchitwithdc3612]

Between quarantine & KZbin's strange recommended tab, I'll watch anything right now to stay occupied.

[@markmontani4339]

As I saw on a chart of proposed 1949 China flags I found thru Google images, the cross at the hoist seen on one entry is explained as not a cross but the Chinese character for "field" which is a square bisected horizontally & vertically each with a line, making 4 smaller squares in a box.

[@Iamtheliquor]

Red. "The blood of those who fought for their freedom"

[@sweetballs4742]

USSR and PRC: LOL!

[@FacundoRendo]

Is time to learn geography ¡¡NOW!!

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

@@FacundoRendo That's my favourite part about Flag/Fan Friday. _And the red stands for...._

[@zoltanposfai3451]

Oh... the blood of the Indians?

[@Iamtheliquor]

@@zoltanposfai3451 ??? There’s no indians in Europe or Africa sooooo

[@Diegossdelarosa]

When Brazil became a republic, there was a contest as well, some of the flags being in black, red and white colours (one of these became the flag of the state of Sao Paulo after the contest, which is the one in the American style, with red canton and black and white stripes). I believe the red was to represent the republic and black/white, the two major ethnical groups of the country.

[@Cheezynubz]

The US flag had 15 stripes when there were 15 stars, but they realized adding striped for each state would make them too small so they changed back to 13 for the next flag

[@nataliak3046]

Very good video thanks

[@ExplodingTNTamazingart]

3:25 That flag kind of looks better than the current one;

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

A real bisexual petrol-head Yea but.. New Zealand and Australia? Ireland and the Ivory Coast?

[@johnnyoak4894]

|People think about portugal| Western European People: Ho yeah it has the green in the left the country's arm in the middle and red in the right The rest of the world: *SIIII*

[@maximfrese6634]

Frankreich

[@leonardoschiavelli6478]

Like Cristiano: SIIIUUU!!!!

[@hentai6976]

Si

[@lapiswolf2780]

A flag proposal for The Bahamas in 1973 basically had the same pattern and colors as the current flag but the stripe colors were switched. (Current has aqua bars on the top and bottom and gold through the middle while the other proposal had two gold bars on the top and bottom and one aqua bar going through the middle. The black triangle remains the same in both.)

[@justintoyreviews8822]

Your video are so good and sub