The flag of Brunei has a centered emblem of Brunei on a yellow field cut by black and white diagonal stripes (parallelograms at an angle).
The Flag of the Commonwealth of Dominica consists of a circular emblem of red bearing a Sisserou Parrot (Amazona imperials) standing on a twig encircled by ten lime green stars.
As described by Article 21 of the Dominican Constitution, the flag features a centered white cross that extends to the edges and divides the flag into four rectangles; the top ones are blue (hoist side) and red, and the bottom ones are red (hoist side) and blue.
National Flag
Qatar's flag consists of two colours: 'Al Adam' (maroon) with a broad white serrated band (nine white points or isosceles triangles) on the hoist side. In the past, the Qatari Burda (a cloak-like garment) was red in colour.
The flag of Bahrain is similar to the flag of Qatar. The only differences are that the flag of Bahrain has fewer points, a 3:5 ratio proportion and a red color instead of maroon.
The Flag of Dubai and Ajman features a 1:2 proportioned red field with a vertical white band on the left portion. From 1952 the flag of Fujarah featured a plain red field with the name of the Emirate. In 1961 the flag was replaced with the national flag of the United Arab Emirates.
The flag consists of a red background with a blue square located at the top left corner at the canton. In the blue square, there is the white sun with twelve triangles acting as rays of the sun. The twelve rays represent the 12 months of the Chinese calendar.
vertically striped green-white-red national flag with a central coat of arms featuring an eagle, a cactus, and a serpent. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 4 to 7.
Haiti's current flag is a bicolor, horizontal flag of blue and red, with a white rectangle in the center featuring a coat of arms. The coat of arms includes a hilltop, weaponry, and a palm tree. A white ribbon on the hillside states, “Unity is Strength”.
As the national flag of Wales, the red dragon appears to have regained popularity in the early part of the twentieth century, when it was used for the 1911 Caernarfon Investiture of Edward, Prince of Wales. It wasn't until 1959 however, that it became officially recognised as the national flag of the country.
Only Two National Flags Use the Color Purple
In fact, only two countries, Dominica and Nicaragua, have purple in their flag. This is because purple dye was very expensive in the past. Purple dye was made from collecting the mucus from thousands of sea snails.
The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Beneath the rattlesnake are the words: "DONT TREAD ON ME". Some modern versions of the flag include an apostrophe.
The red stripe on the flag represents the Australian Army, the dark blue stripe represents the Royal Australian Navy and the light blue stripe represents the Royal Australian Air Force. The Commonwealth Star and the boomerang on the Australian Defence Force ensign represent Australia.
The black–yellow flag was used in a way similar to a modern national flag by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy within the Holy Roman Empire, by the later Austrian Empire, and by the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary, and was sometimes informally used for the entire empire, up until 1918.
The modern flag of Russia is a tricolor flag consisting of three horizontal fields: the top is white, the middle is blue, and the bottom is red. Initially, the flag was used only for Russian merchant ships but in 1696 it became the official flag of the Tsardom of Russia until the year 1922.
The National Flag of Ireland, a tricolour of green, white and orange, is intended to symbolise the inclusion of and the aspiration for unity between people of different traditions on this island. The flag is twice as wide as it is high. The three colours are of equal size and the green goes next to the flagstaff.
The Japanese flag is made up of a red circle, symbolizing the sun, against a white background. It is known as the hinomaru in Japanese, meaning "circle of the sun." Because Japan lies at the far West of the Pacific Ocean, the sun rises spectacularly over the sea to the East.
The Chinese flag is red with a large gold five-pointed star in the top-left of the flag and four smaller five-pointed gold stars to the right of the big star. Red represents the traditional color of the people, and the gold stars represent Communism as well as China's social classes.
The flag of the Syrian Arab Republic consists of three colours: red, white and black, with two green stars, of five angles each. The flag is rectangular, with its width measuring two-thirds of its length. It is divided into three rectangles of identical dimensions and have the same length as the flag.
Chinese provincial flag consisting of a red field (background) bearing, at its centre, a stylized five-petaled white flower with a five-pointed red star in each petal. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
The flag of Hong Kong, officially the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, depicts a white stylised five-petal Hong Kong orchid tree (Bauhinia blakeana) flower in the centre of a Chinese red field.
It is considered the holy colour in Islam, so most Islamic countries feature Green as a major part of their flag. Countries that utilize green in their flags are Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Zambia and Turkmenistan among others.
Hong Kong's flag has only been officially in use since 1997. It was adopted as the British handed the territory back to China, at which time a corresponding flower emblem also replaced Queen Elizabeth's head on coins and supplanted the colonial coat-of-arms on passports and official documents.
The national flag of Poland (Polish: flaga Polski) consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red. The two colours are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colours.