This Month in Flag News: July/August 2017

[@KonchokTW]

You deserve so many more subscribers. This is insanely entertaining.

[@BudCharlesUnderVlogs]

Ikr?

[@ethpling165]

Petition the UN to use international dance offs to settle all international disputes.

[@tangysqueek5699]

Ethpling was this is too underrated

[@SpektralJo]

I am not sure if I like Mauretanias new flag. I dont think the red fits into the awesome green/Gold colour combination

[@hamadaghazaly5613]

SpektralJo absolutely we don't like it.

[@bavarianmapper4566]

It makes Jamaica the most non-American flag with no red, white, or blue

[@trlittletoaster]

Mauritania's* by the way I think it's not the best but also not the worst

[@stephenwaldron4213]

Those colors are used widely with Islam, but unfortunately, the contrast between the red and dark green isn't the best. Perhaps some white or gold lines to separate them, as well as making the moon and star in the middle slightly smaller would fix it.

[@JCEurovisionFan1996]

So do I

[@rowanjdquinn]

I loved this edition of This Month In Flag News! And as the Canadians say, "good show,eh!"

[@jd3422]

Thanks for this mention of the Mauritanian flag. You were very close in the pronunciation of the name of the president. The spot where you missed the mark a little bit is totally understandable because it's very unusual. The ethnic group of the president is the Moors (Maurs). They are people of Arab-Berber heritage who speak Hassaniya, a language derived from Arabic. In this ethnic group, the small word "ould" (pronounced very much like "wilt") means "son of." Hence, we can see from the president's name that he is Mohamed, son of Abdel Aziz. The equivalent for women is "mint," which means "daughter of." Thus, if Mohamed had a sister named Bintu, she would be known as Bintu mint Abdel Aziz.

[@kushantaiidan]

Moar! MOAR! MORE VIDEOS! Love your work as always. High time for a Q&A Video too. Thumbs up every video.

[@gabrielbolanoshernandez7915]

I think that in the United States they have forgotten that a flag should be simple and besides, it should not be a commercial logo.

[@brambora]

Glad the show is back!

[@caleblovell]

Really great and entertaining video as usual man! Wish you'd upload weekly or more. Keep it up! You deserve far more attention.

[@Anton_Schusler]

Wait, what? Mauritania got a new flag? How come I haven't heard about that before now? I guess, I better subscribe to see the news on time in the future.

[@43Cubes]

5:42 Burma Afghanistan Thailand Nepal and Bhutan

[@FutureNostaliga]

This is an awesome series

[@ocoileain8689]

When you get jealous because their city flags are better than your national flag.

[@43Cubes]

3:51 Namibia?

[@jubbybrab]

Orlando?! MY CITY GOT A FLAG! (Btw the fountain was Lake Eola

[@julien7504]

DunDun Productions .

[@mathbrooo]

DunDun Productions same yay!!

[@Ida-xe8pg]

4:51 lol

[@Ida-xe8pg]

click here for that parade : kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3aTpmpmi7hkipY

[@chrise7180]

When you hit 5k, Imma send you some foam for better audio.

[@Vexillographer]

Deal.

[@nikothehusky2384]

Flagpoles are better than nukes

[@lanahanbrian0]

Nice work Peter, enjoyed the video. P.S. I now think India should build a flag pole that is 401 in height just to be annoying, haha. Whose with me!?

[@stephenwaldron4213]

Let's see how high they get :) At least until they realize the money could be better spent...

[@43Cubes]

@@stephenwaldron4213 make it 420 ft

[@billofwrights7695]

The proposed flag of that one Indian state looks like the flag of Benin minus the green stripe.

[@43Cubes]

8:26 copyright and trademark

[@jaimemurua3858]

Where do you get all the flags

[@harrisonmccreight6192]

Hey! I heard about your channel only recently, but I watched this video and saw that you talk about local flag stuff in the US. I wanted to let you know I’m working with a close friend of mine and we’ve actually gotten all the way to our City Council (our city is Euclid, Ohio. Near Cleveland, Ohio) and we have their approval (through committee, we still have to write up some legislation) to make a new city flag for our city. We’re pretty close to actually finalizing this and we’re trying to get our name out into the vexillologist community! If you’re interested I can get you the nitty gritty detail. Thanks!

[@Vexillographer]

Sounds awesome, Michael! I'd love to help you guys out. Send an email my way - vexillographer (at) gmail.com - and we can get something started. :)

[@qerwerg2341]

That map with Mauritania is gonna trigger some Sahrawis

[@vista2304]

Pocatello's new flag looks like a flag of one of the autonomous ssr's

[@xuhuiming2694]

THe flag thing reminds me of the poles in the Korean border.

[@bennythargrave]

The situation in India is similar to the attitudes held in the USA in it's early history. That's why some US states didn't adopt flags until the early 20th century.

[@2Pixelated]

North and South Korea did the same flag height thing

[@T0NY3317]

Fun fact: every flag had at least one of these colors: red,blue,black,yellow,green

[@LegitMookle]

Kaushik Varadharajan *has

[@Kihidokid]

Why have I never heard of Mauritania... Is it claimed by another country or something?

[@jomiga1999]

Nope, fully independent and sovereign country.

[@hamadaghazaly5613]

Anthony Ingram nope we are a fully independent country. Maybe we dont have that much concern of media. Glad for that

[@SantomPh]

they have been there for quite some time. but very quiet- they are one of the few Muslim majority countries to fully recognize Israel, but that is one of the few tidbits about it.

[@43Cubes]

4:04 Prague

[@lior3300]

canada jokes was awesome LAMO. by the way the reason why kashmir has a state flag is because briten gave the to decide if to be independent,pakistenian or indian and at first thay wanted to be independent but tham some crazy mmambo jambo started. that's why india and pakistan in a bitter relationship.

[@SantomPh]

ali kudsd Kashmir has a special status in India and is not like many other states and is closer to Delhi and the Andamans. Plus India want Kashmir want to be as distinct as possible so they can push Pakistan out of their third.

[@joshuawan7004]

Britain let all the princely states to decide for themselves, not just Kashmir. For example, Bhopal, Travancore and Hyderabad were briefly independent. Most princes were being convinced or pressured into joining either India or Pakistan. Hyderabad and Kashmir were being invaded.

[@jimmssalmon7700]

He's quite good

[@newcelsodiaz7830]

city of Polarsville, KS has current flag

[@lupanebektianlines]

Why is the country called Mauritania because there is a ship called Mauretania.

[@MauriSahara]

Im disappointed for Mauritanias change

[@BrendanBomanTheSwagnificent]

I received this at 10 this morning (+8GMT) but I was in a jungle and the service is bad so I cannot watch it. But anyway, I LOVE THE NEW FORMAT!!! ^^ There is a way to make it better (not saying it is not good) by just using Microsoft PowerPoint, but it is hard to explain, and a slow computer might not be able to handle it. But if you want to know how, you can just contact me ^^

[@ll-cb3py]

6:50 All they need is to DANCE it out.

[@disneyprincesscupcaketoppe5132]

i hope my city of huntington park has new flag soon

[@TehVulpez]

DUDE I CAN NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THE NEW TULSA FLAG IT LOOKS SO COOOOOOOOL!!!

[@ketanraut5934]

Some part of Jammu and Kashmir is missing...

[@Trufles1234]

Do October and Deptember!

[@kadz3597]

this Karnataka flag is the same as my Warsaw's flag

[@orlandopereira4887]

Thanks

[@scorpioninpink]

The Tulsa Flag is better than their state flag.

[@esaub228]

Tulsa?! THATS WHERE I LIVE!!!!!

[@lizzymargobananastickerchi5890]

city of SMiles park has current flag

[@bepkoyt]

I'm actually sad Pocatello has a new flag.

[@davidmartin512]

I actually 13 and I live in Tulsa Oklahoma

[@davidmartin512]

And the massacre is locally is called the Tulsa race riot where after a black man raped a white girl the whites burnt 15,000 black people homes and destroying all of greenwood back then called black hollywood

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

This guy is really cute.

[@burlingtonfan7492]

When US city flags are better than US state flags...

[@Trufles1234]

Put Lithuanian flag I the background pretty please with a cherry on top!

[@bonyuri5211]

Jamaica is on a roll

[@theoreticallypertinacious2430]

Its fun with flags

[@waynecorker9098]

The flag debate in india reflects the fundamental fissure in the formation of the indian nation. For good or ill indian independence found itself thwarted by other communities that did not wish to subsumed into a unitary indian nation. Places like the princely states, other overseas terriotories on the indian sub continent all had flags as symbols of soverneign entities: when this was taken up by the muslim league it was perceived as a strike at the heart of an all india nation. There are still some communities in india that would like to change the present status quo. Kashmir was never absorded totally into india and the seperate flags indicate the disputed status and ongoing conflict in that part of the sub continent. The hindu ruler of the majority muslim kashmir had to choose which entity to align with in 1947. It appears that muslims were to make the decision by force of arms, this precipited a major feat of arms of the indian armed forces to secure kashmir for the delhi based government. Yet it has left kashhir as the odd one out in the subcontinent as having a flag which highlights the disputed status that would not apply to any other part of india. So i suspect from an indian perspective the various state and provincial flags of spain and even canada reflect a flawed nation imposed by past imperial contrivance rather than true nation states like india. This will be illustrated by the need for these places to redesign their flags to reflect their fluctuating nature. For india to allow this occur today would endorse the break up of the indian subcontinent that occurred in 1947.

[@SantomPh]

Wayne Corker despite being a nation for over 70 years as of 2018, India is a very shaky federation that honestly should have never come together at all in 1948. The British never healed the divisions between ethnic and religious groups by uniting India, and post independence rulers hated any attempt at state identity as everything was on tenterhooks from the get go. the Sikhs have a religious flag (misappropriated by separatists), the West Bengal state often flew the hammer and sickle (oldest continously elected Communist government in the world), plus major party flags like Congress and the BJP are woven and revered like national flags. Popular Indian religious figures also had their own banners, like the departed Sai Baba. Sikkim, a former kingdom often flies a unique flag on certain occasions in the Buddhist calendar. the federal government is therefore extremely careful not to allow any state apart from Kashmir (politics) to wave their own flag as it is a warning that secession may happen.

[@irishpennsylvanian9671]

I REALLY hope Tampa gets a new flag, their current one is garbage! Also Wilkes Barre and Scranton in PA need better flags (I live near both of them.)

[@frabbledabble1376]

2:35 Sri Lanka

[@ae-cp9tr]

It take me a bit more than a minute to realise that this was of 2017 :v Sorry, my english isn't to good :u

[@nomnom8565]

2:04 🇲🇷Mauritania

[@scorpioninpink]

That flag for Pocatello Idaho has better flag than their state.

[@nomnom8565]

Mauritania

[@nomnom8565]

New Zealand

[@nomnom8565]

Malawi

[@omermallhi]

5:28 I’ve been there

[@SargentoBonzo]

Some political parties and critics believe that separate state flags are an insult to India’s unity. HOWEVER maybe the estate flags could also represent unity if the flags are re-designed with the Indian national flag in a canton or with the Indian tricolur ribbon kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKStZHeLpr6CZpY Of course this is my perspective as a non-Indian.

[@SantomPh]

Sargento Bonzo each state is practically run like a personal fief of its governor so they don't want to call attention to their activities by raising a flag.

[@nomnom8565]

Nicaragua

[@kingkirbek]

Karnataka's flag is the same as flag of Warsaw. Weird

[@nomnom8565]

Tanzania

[@farajaraf]

Way better that geography now

[@SantomPh]

Farajaraf this channel is specifically about flags and related information. Geography Now is not really about that.

[@farajaraf]

SantomPh but he's still better

[@nomnom8565]

Yemen

[@jsjdegieicsw]

morocco has no red white or blue :P

[@callmevbuck4054]

Morocco has red...

[@nomnom8565]

Tunisia

[@notallthatskilled]

ok

[@waelalsahar3759]

My name is mohmmad

[@welp4576]

Mauritania 🇲🇷

[@nomnom8565]

Estonia

[@ketanraut5934]

Ur Indian map is not proper... Please make it correct...

[@nomnom8565]

Panama

[@pakistanballmapping9570]

Pakistan / india Roti war

[@luisavallejos2598]

Mami jajaja

[@therandomhat_]

In Mexico, they also have state flags, but they're so ugly everyone pretends they don't exist, India should take a note from Mexico, give them horrible looking state flags, not only does that squash their want for a state flag, but now your flag looks amazing compared to the state flags ;D

[@moka8267]

Really? I thought just a few of them had flags. Are they all the coat of arms on a white background?

[@therandomhat_]

Nigu II yes besides 2 or 3 of them

[@paschtube3043]

Pakistan and India should really chill 😂 in from Pakistan but I have nothing against Indians even have a friend from India ✌🏾

[@MrTAYA87]

A Flagomaniac lool Contact m if u need mor info abt my country...

[@divyanshukumarkandhaway]

This guy talking about 8th tallest flag emerging out of rivalry due to India's and pakistan country Me an indian:- wut 😶

[@nomnom8565]

India

[@paxyandtobz]

Lol Jai Hind

[@friendmitrasekumpul012]

flag israel palestina russia ussr germany nazi eu vs csto

[@kenster8270]

You got the map of Morocco wrong. I feel like you, as an indigenous guy yourself, should know better or at least should have researched better on the issue of indigenous rights. Not impressed.

[@Vexillographer]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Kenneth. If you're referring to the map at 0:25 not including Western Sahara, that's because that territory is currently controlled by Morocco. I'm not saying that Morocco rightfully owns that land (it doesn't); I'm just trying to reflect the reality of the situation. I don't separate Tibet and China on maps, either. Although I want to see Tibet free and independent, the reality is that it's currently under Chinese control. My maps try to depict the world as it is, not as I'd like it to be.

[@kenster8270]

Tibet is universally recognized by the entire international community (i.e. all countries and many international organizations) as being part of China. Conversely, Western Sahara is universally recognized by the entire international community (i.e. all countries and many international organizations) as NOT being part of Morocco. Morocco controls 75-80% of Western Sahara. The remaining 20-25% is an area the size of the Navajo Nation.

[@chikamotokenji3217]

🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷

[@akinkuremoto6448]

🇲🇷🇲🇷

[@yeetonmyfeet6548]

Im a cool description reader

[@nomnom8565]

Mauritania

[@nomnom8565]

Jamaica