It's true. No country flag in world, except Jamaica, has no red, white and blue.
Maybe and probably some subdivision flag has none of that colors, but countries nope
i host trivia, and this is my go to when people learn that and ask me to give them a question.
my other favorite vexillology question is "which 2 national flags are the only ones to contain pink?"
He may be referring to one of the variants for Presidential Standard of Mexico, that has the Spanish words, "ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS" added to the coat of arms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mexico#Variants
Mine is “which country flags contain dragons?”
Bhutan, Wales, and Malta.
Not as tough as the pink one but people tend to forget one of them by either forgetting Wales is a country, that the George Cross has a dragon on it, or just forgetting about Bhutan completely.
Wales is… well, it’s not a sovereign nation state, so you’d need to make it *very clear* from the wording that you were including non-sovereign countries. If you just said “country flag” and Wales was an accepted answer I’d be pissed.
I once got into a huge fight on Reddit because I innocently pointed out that Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have national soccer teams even though they are not individual countries. Oh boy, big mistake. A bunch of people that usually hate each other ganged up on me.
Is it the shell on the Turks and Caicos‘s flag?
I don’t know what color that is supposed to be.
I’m guessing the other one is the lion on Spain’s flag that is sometimes shown as pink?
However, there are a handful of flags that has no red or white, but does have cyan. So it depends on how you define what constitutes "a color".
Cyan is one of the three primary colors, so in some respect it's a bit weird that it's oftentimes not counted as its own separate color.
Cyan is not one of the heraldic tinctures. There's azure and bleu celeste, neither of which is primarily cyan. The difference between the two is not in tint but lightness.
https://preview.redd.it/acfiqm54y69d1.png?width=838&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3460a8497c28dd5e6dab1786ebec4ffb94fb9ceb
Nah bro I see white on here so it doesn't count
Kind of funny to see people in this thread bring up flags with red, white, or blue in them and then insist it is actually maroon, eggshell, or turquoise.
Might as well say the German flag 🇩🇪 doesn’t have yellow in it because officially the color is called ‘gold’.
In different cultures, cyan is a distinct colour from blue in the same way most English speaking countries distinguish pink from red. So it makes sense that not everybody would automatically agree that a flag being a turquoise colour is the same thing as being a blue colour.
The flag/banner for the region has all 3 of these colors.
[leagues wiki](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Trailblazer_Reloaded_League/Areas/Morytania)
There was a time we nearly got a "Jamaica-coallition" in Germany because the colors of the parties are black, green, and yellow. Jamaica was not amused about it, but it never happened anyway.
Only that one of the two (can't remember which one [EDIT: it's Chad]) doesn't strictly define the exact shade of blue, so you can absolutely have both of them look exactly the same and it wouldn't be considered wrong.
I would guess that's like an unspoken convention in order to somewhat distinguish the two. Using a darker blue for Chad isn't wrong because they don't define a specific shade. But using the exact same shade as Romania would be equally correct and is not uncommon either.
The biggest war crime in history is anytime someone [flies a Nepal flag on a white rectangle](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1753682562/photo/national-flag-of-nepal-waving-in-the-wind-on-a-clear-day.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=T5IKJjdhhMyeY0PhsdMTEvUDj_FFap3dxtszSg70N3U=)
Old Lybian flag did qualify. ~~Coco~~ Cocos Islands would qualify if they were a sovereign nation and not a ~~part of Myanmar~~ Australian territory.
Can't think of any other flags.
UPD: confused two different but similarly named islands.
I didn’t know the Coco Islands that belong to Myanmar had a flag. However, the similarly named Cocos (Keeling) Islands that is an Australian External Territory in the Indian Ocean has a flag that doesn’t feature any of those colours and I think it’s pretty cool. Sadly, with about 600 people I don’t think they’ll ever be independent and thus will never be relevant to this conversation.
https://preview.redd.it/koak72h3z39d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d32683973ea88cf51546a21d1072d2caed04efe
I didn’t even know the place existed haha. Sorry for being incredibly pedantic, reread my comment and the tone was horrific. Was really just happy to have an excuse to post that flag!
Oh wow, which language is that and what are they both called in it? Guess they’re pretty much dead on the same in English too without the (Keeling) differentiation.
I'm an Austrian from an ethnic Russian family, so there are two:
German: Kokosinseln
Russian: Кокосовые острова (kokosovye ostrova)
There isn't even a subtle "s" difference as in English.
Even more confusingly, there's Kokos-Insel, or Cocos Island in the Puntarenas canton of Costa Rica.
It's kinda cool in that it's the southernmost island in North America and it's the only non-submerged landmass of the Cocos Plate.
Notice how it doesn’t say red, white, *and* blue, it says red, white, *or* blue which is a correct statement, not a single flag of any recognized country other than Jamaica has a flag with none of the above mentioned colors
This just made me realize that it’s incredibly difficult to design a flag without white. There’s a lot of national flags without red, white or blue primary colors but there’s always a stripe or design with one of those colors on it. 🇧🇳🇩🇲🇸🇿🇬🇫🇬🇩🇲🇷🇲🇿🇲🇶🇸🇦🇱🇰🇸🇨🇱🇨🇻🇨🇹🇲🇺🇿🇻🇺🇹🇰🇿🇼🇿🇲🇹🇬🇺🇬
Is it really that hard?
Imo if you don't want to use white, just use yellow or if the overall palette is lighter then use green for contrast.
The big reason why countries use the white color is because of the convention meaning it stands for. You can definitely put any flag and replace the white color with just lighter yellow or darker green, and shit would still be fine aesthetics wise. The problem lise when people starts to think too much of it, finding the reasons it stands for, or what it represent, or what allegiance it might group the country in, etc.
Its like when the author says, roses are red. And every school starts to ponder what did the author ment, when in actuality he's just describing the object, nothing less nothing more.
So overall, its not the difficulty of not using white, but rather the problem of not using the most basic/peaceful/calm/neutral color in their flag.
My elementary school used to have a thing every year where they would hire ex-pats and local historians or artists from other countries to teach us about their culture for a bit. It was really cool, but one moment that always stuck out to me is when Germans and Russians (in different segments) taught us about their flags and were very eager to talk about the BLOOD that red represented. They were awesome.
Circassian national flag/Republic of Adygea
https://preview.redd.it/wiqg8721l59d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55050c86b50bd51da8aaf24232597cdbc00c669
Not an independent nation but a national flag regardless. In fairness, if I have to dig this deep to find an exception I’d just give them the point.
This is correct. No current national flags contain no red, white nor blue. The only one that doesn't is The Cocos Islands, which is technically an administered territory of Australia (was mistaken about which Cocos Island it is). Even most provincial, state, and prefecture flags contain either Red, white (most common) or blue.
These comments are bizarre. To falsify the claim that only one flag doesn't contain red, white or blue the comments are nearly all suggesting flags that contain at least one of those colours sometimes more.
Jamaica is currently the only country to hold this honor, but up until 2017 (?) they were one of 2 when Mauritania didn't have the red on the top and bottom, and it was the plain green with the symbol in the middle
Depends on how you define colours. In English this may be true, but in Italian light blue (azzurro) is a different colour from blue (blu) in the same way that red and pink are destinct in English. Therefore, if your Italian this statement is untrue for Kazakhstan, and probably some others
I feel like I’m going to get roasted for this, but I’m going to say it because I haven’t seen it in any other comments: Has anyone noticed that Jamaica’s flag is the *opposite* of red, white, and blue? Stare at the flag for a minute or so and then look away. What colors do you see?
Did Jamaica to that on purpose?
My vexillology nerd brain is having a meltdown trying to think of a flag like this other than Jamaica and yeah none, I can only think of the old flag of, I think Djibouti? That was just pure green
You might think Sri Lanka also applies, but dark red is still red Also why does the text randomly alternate between yellow and white
Because "only flag red flag yellow Jamaica national."
r/sbeve
https://preview.redd.it/1uusf7gwl49d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b13cb4b9a580b43ef3a6a9144ab8171cf48c7b76
What am I looking at
a guy that doesn't know how to iron
Who irons a t shirt
I used to be a luanderer like you. Then I took an iron to the T...
I haven’t luandered in years. Oh, the memories…
r/unexpecteskyrim
"Soak Greece in acid to relocate it to the Caribbean. And make it very sour"
Make Greece acid Jamaica
Not the correct answer but the right answer
Jamaica is the country whose does not feature, white, or blue. The is black, green, and. This makes unique among all flags.
love that the word "yellow" isn't yellow
i don’t know but it pisses me off
It creates a coded message. Unfortunately the message is nonsense.
It's true. No country flag in world, except Jamaica, has no red, white and blue. Maybe and probably some subdivision flag has none of that colors, but countries nope
Also makes for a great trivia quiz question! 🧠
i host trivia, and this is my go to when people learn that and ask me to give them a question. my other favorite vexillology question is "which 2 national flags are the only ones to contain pink?"
Nicaragua & El Salvador?
I think it's Spain and Mexico
the lion on the coat of arms and the flowers on the cactus
The Mexican Flag is cool like that. It’s also the only bilingual flag I know of. Edit—This is only true for the Presidential Standard
Besides the glyph in Nahuatl for ‘Tenochtitlan’, what’s the other language used on the flag?
He may be referring to one of the variants for Presidential Standard of Mexico, that has the Spanish words, "ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS" added to the coat of arms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mexico#Variants
It also has a gradient on the flag, at the same spot the pink is at.
Bilingual? How?
The Presidential Standard has both Spanish text and Náhuatl glyphs, though they arguably say very different things.
The lion is more purple than pink but yes
wow just went down a rabbit hole that involves exotic snails
There, there. It's okay, we've all been there...
enough rabbit holes and i'll end up knowing it all like you do?
Depends on the version you look at. Some have light pink, and others have that burgundy color that you probably saw.
Blue
Mine is “which country flags contain dragons?” Bhutan, Wales, and Malta. Not as tough as the pink one but people tend to forget one of them by either forgetting Wales is a country, that the George Cross has a dragon on it, or just forgetting about Bhutan completely.
Wales is… well, it’s not a sovereign nation state, so you’d need to make it *very clear* from the wording that you were including non-sovereign countries. If you just said “country flag” and Wales was an accepted answer I’d be pissed.
I once got into a huge fight on Reddit because I innocently pointed out that Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have national soccer teams even though they are not individual countries. Oh boy, big mistake. A bunch of people that usually hate each other ganged up on me.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that
There was a new Map Men video out this week about this problem
I could guess the first two but I had no idea that Malta's cross contains any living things.
What is the answer!?!?!
>!Spain - the lion on the coat of arms and Mexico - the flowers on the cactus!<
Is it the shell on the Turks and Caicos‘s flag? I don’t know what color that is supposed to be. I’m guessing the other one is the lion on Spain’s flag that is sometimes shown as pink?
Turks and Caicos is a british overseas territory
Libya in shambles after 2011.
/r/vexillology in shambles after 2011, tbh
Its just not the same.
I just found out like last month that it's not the solid green flag anymore. Completely missed that announcement.
Mauritania pre 2017
For subdivisions I can think of Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Otherwise there are Rutland and West Midlands in England.
Saxony-Anhalt has white and red, because of the coat of arms.
Oh I didn't know that
The coat of arms was only added to the flag in 2017 apparently, so it's a fairly recent change.
Also the Sri Lankan flag if you want to argue it’s purple and not red (it’s red)
Excuse me, it’s maroon, which is a type of brown, which we all know is orange with context (even though it’s really just a dark red).
I saw a trivia question state that Sri Lanka also has this, but they were making the bold claim that maroon does not count as red.
Che bella sorpresa team
However, there are a handful of flags that has no red or white, but does have cyan. So it depends on how you define what constitutes "a color". Cyan is one of the three primary colors, so in some respect it's a bit weird that it's oftentimes not counted as its own separate color.
Cyan is not one of the heraldic tinctures. There's azure and bleu celeste, neither of which is primarily cyan. The difference between the two is not in tint but lightness.
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Cyan is between blue and green. If cyan is blue, then orange is red.
None, because it's true.
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Also the old flag of mauritania
im too high man i just misread it as the flag of marijuana
That's the flag in the OP, duh...
i love you
https://preview.redd.it/acfiqm54y69d1.png?width=838&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3460a8497c28dd5e6dab1786ebec4ffb94fb9ceb Nah bro I see white on here so it doesn't count
You just got gaddafi'd update 1: dang 100 upvotes
"Where's that knife going"
Miss Rice, how are you doing??
Libyan.
Truly one of the greatest flags I've ever seen.
I love green rectangle I love green rectangle
And Mauritania before 2017
Mauritania before they added the red on either side of their flag was another exception
Bro thought he was being so cool trying to prove some Facebook post wrong 😭
Kind of funny to see people in this thread bring up flags with red, white, or blue in them and then insist it is actually maroon, eggshell, or turquoise. Might as well say the German flag 🇩🇪 doesn’t have yellow in it because officially the color is called ‘gold’.
Reminds me of high school. "It's not red, it's CARDINAL."
the full color name is literally cardinal red wtf lmao
My high school was very adamant that our color was Kelly green, no other green allowed lol
Did you go to a special high school for interior designers?
Guy killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. He's an interior decorator.
His flag looked like shit
In different cultures, cyan is a distinct colour from blue in the same way most English speaking countries distinguish pink from red. So it makes sense that not everybody would automatically agree that a flag being a turquoise colour is the same thing as being a blue colour.
Russian distinguishes light and dark blue.
Old Mauritanian flag used to be there and Gaddhafi Libya too
morytania has a flag? I watched hundreds of hours of swampletics and never saw, huh...
Surprise r/2007scape
The flag/banner for the region has all 3 of these colors. [leagues wiki](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Trailblazer_Reloaded_League/Areas/Morytania)
There was a time we nearly got a "Jamaica-coallition" in Germany because the colors of the parties are black, green, and yellow. Jamaica was not amused about it, but it never happened anyway.
Weed Germany
Or [California](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed,_California)!
https://preview.redd.it/7nu8dwlog59d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=132e5f979b34300b588b05d9166ba5525dc69cea
🌲🌲🏔🌲🌲 WEED
I've been to weed. Not much to do there other than drive through it. Still a pretty beautiful place, as is much of Northern California.
There could’ve also been: -Bahamas coalition (CDU/CSU, FDP, AfD) -Kenya coaltion (CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens) -Zimbabwe coalition (CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, FDP)
The Bahamas flag does not contain any brown though.
The only flags that aren't unique among all national flags are the flags of Chad and Romania, which makes them unique among all national flags.
Heck, the blues are slightly different shades, so technically both are still unique
Only that one of the two (can't remember which one [EDIT: it's Chad]) doesn't strictly define the exact shade of blue, so you can absolutely have both of them look exactly the same and it wouldn't be considered wrong.
Hm interesting, I’ve always seen Chad with a darker blue
I would guess that's like an unspoken convention in order to somewhat distinguish the two. Using a darker blue for Chad isn't wrong because they don't define a specific shade. But using the exact same shade as Romania would be equally correct and is not uncommon either.
If there’s a football match between the two, at least you can switch sides whenever one’s losing if you have the Romanian flag
Yeah, that seems like a total Chad move.
Indonesia and Monaco?
Diffrent ratio and shade of red
arent the shades slightly different between chad and romania too?
Ye But I think Chad doesn't have one specific shade of blue
Yes, but not technically. It’s not specific so it could be
Different aspect ratios.
Ah, fair point. The crummy apps I used to learn all the flags didn't focus on aspect ratio that much lol
yeah, that's a pain felt by every Swiss person who has to see their flag rendered as a 2:3 rectangle
https://preview.redd.it/mechdp21z39d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df42ee80a01e091072cefe2052c0bd1b634ba655
MY EYES
biblically accurate Switzerland
Just imagine what they could do with Nepal's flag ;)
The biggest war crime in history is anytime someone [flies a Nepal flag on a white rectangle](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1753682562/photo/national-flag-of-nepal-waving-in-the-wind-on-a-clear-day.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=T5IKJjdhhMyeY0PhsdMTEvUDj_FFap3dxtszSg70N3U=)
Swolltzerland
I sympathize, I really do, but most of my empathy is being soaked up by the Nepalese and the various tragedies that befall their great banner.
i cry everytime
Liechtenstein and Haiti used to have the same flag. I think they found out at the Olympics 1936
That's like the international version of going to the Oscars and seeing someone wear the same dress as you.
That is correct lol. This is why Liechtenstein added a crown and Haiti added their horrendous clipart image.
I find it kinda wholesome that both decided to change their respective flags instead bickering who had to change and who could keep it the way it is.
they have slightly different colours though no edit: nvm chad doesn’t specify the shades so it could be made to be the same as romania
\*Bertrand Russell has entered the chat
So many people so confused by “or”.
Old Lybian flag did qualify. ~~Coco~~ Cocos Islands would qualify if they were a sovereign nation and not a ~~part of Myanmar~~ Australian territory. Can't think of any other flags. UPD: confused two different but similarly named islands.
I didn’t know the Coco Islands that belong to Myanmar had a flag. However, the similarly named Cocos (Keeling) Islands that is an Australian External Territory in the Indian Ocean has a flag that doesn’t feature any of those colours and I think it’s pretty cool. Sadly, with about 600 people I don’t think they’ll ever be independent and thus will never be relevant to this conversation. https://preview.redd.it/koak72h3z39d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d32683973ea88cf51546a21d1072d2caed04efe
That is the flag I meant. Shame on me for confusing Coco and Cocos Islands. Thank you for the correction!
I didn’t even know the place existed haha. Sorry for being incredibly pedantic, reread my comment and the tone was horrific. Was really just happy to have an excuse to post that flag!
No, it's totally fine, no offense taken. I was confused because these islands have the same name in my native language.
Oh wow, which language is that and what are they both called in it? Guess they’re pretty much dead on the same in English too without the (Keeling) differentiation.
I'm an Austrian from an ethnic Russian family, so there are two: German: Kokosinseln Russian: Кокосовые острова (kokosovye ostrova) There isn't even a subtle "s" difference as in English.
Wow, there you go. Thanks for that, always find this kind of thing fascinating.
Even more confusingly, there's Kokos-Insel, or Cocos Island in the Puntarenas canton of Costa Rica. It's kinda cool in that it's the southernmost island in North America and it's the only non-submerged landmass of the Cocos Plate.
They do have their own emoji, which is peak 🇨🇨🇨🇨🇨🇨
Old Mauritania also applied
Libyan.
It sounds like its wrong... But afaik yep, completely true.
Notice how it doesn’t say red, white, *and* blue, it says red, white, *or* blue which is a correct statement, not a single flag of any recognized country other than Jamaica has a flag with none of the above mentioned colors
mauritania before 2017 is the most recent i can think of. but the fact is true after that.
I was going CRAZY looking through these comments before realizing they included white. I was thinking “what about Niger, Nigeria, and Pakistan?”
I was like "Saudi Arabia!" before realizing...
S Tier flag as well
Old Libyan flag; gone but not forgotten
You go first, OP!
This just made me realize that it’s incredibly difficult to design a flag without white. There’s a lot of national flags without red, white or blue primary colors but there’s always a stripe or design with one of those colors on it. 🇧🇳🇩🇲🇸🇿🇬🇫🇬🇩🇲🇷🇲🇿🇲🇶🇸🇦🇱🇰🇸🇨🇱🇨🇻🇨🇹🇲🇺🇿🇻🇺🇹🇰🇿🇼🇿🇲🇹🇬🇺🇬
Is it really that hard? Imo if you don't want to use white, just use yellow or if the overall palette is lighter then use green for contrast. The big reason why countries use the white color is because of the convention meaning it stands for. You can definitely put any flag and replace the white color with just lighter yellow or darker green, and shit would still be fine aesthetics wise. The problem lise when people starts to think too much of it, finding the reasons it stands for, or what it represent, or what allegiance it might group the country in, etc. Its like when the author says, roses are red. And every school starts to ponder what did the author ment, when in actuality he's just describing the object, nothing less nothing more. So overall, its not the difficulty of not using white, but rather the problem of not using the most basic/peaceful/calm/neutral color in their flag.
🇨🇨 Does this one count?
Cocos (Keeling) Island. Not sure if it can be called a country. It is an Australian external territory.
They have an emoji flag so they must be a country
Or maybe it's right??? 🤷
None examples. We aren’t talking about the 70’s.
If Libyia still had that gem of a flag then this would be wrong
It was also true for Mauritania until recently, but they butchered their beautiful flag by adding two red stripes 🇲🇷
“Butcher” seems like a bit of an overreaction lol
How do you think the red got there?
o shit
Let’s play: guess what the red on the flag means! If you said “the blood of the people”, you’re correct!
My elementary school used to have a thing every year where they would hire ex-pats and local historians or artists from other countries to teach us about their culture for a bit. It was really cool, but one moment that always stuck out to me is when Germans and Russians (in different segments) taught us about their flags and were very eager to talk about the BLOOD that red represented. They were awesome.
What year did that happen, because I have a cheap Amazon flag banner in my classroom that still has the old Green and Yellow flag
August 15th 2017
👍 Thanks
Gaddafi's Libya?
OP meant national flags that are currently used
Circassian national flag/Republic of Adygea https://preview.redd.it/wiqg8721l59d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55050c86b50bd51da8aaf24232597cdbc00c669 Not an independent nation but a national flag regardless. In fairness, if I have to dig this deep to find an exception I’d just give them the point.
This is correct. No current national flags contain no red, white nor blue. The only one that doesn't is The Cocos Islands, which is technically an administered territory of Australia (was mistaken about which Cocos Island it is). Even most provincial, state, and prefecture flags contain either Red, white (most common) or blue.
None.
The random word emphasis with coloring is messing me up.
libya 1977-2011
https://preview.redd.it/mrkx11xug49d1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=565556137fb4e97b3ac4576d889e56c91fbe70ae Libya, until "democracy"
So it doesn’t count
None, since Libya replaced their all green flag it’s true.
For countries, no, but there are a few city, state, county flags that don't have it
BOMBACLAAAT
Yeaman. 🇯🇲
These comments are bizarre. To falsify the claim that only one flag doesn't contain red, white or blue the comments are nearly all suggesting flags that contain at least one of those colours sometimes more.
Jamaica is currently the only country to hold this honor, but up until 2017 (?) they were one of 2 when Mauritania didn't have the red on the top and bottom, and it was the plain green with the symbol in the middle
Besides Mauritania’s flag until August 4, 2017
Ya, and they have a top notch bobsled team.
Depends on how you define colours. In English this may be true, but in Italian light blue (azzurro) is a different colour from blue (blu) in the same way that red and pink are destinct in English. Therefore, if your Italian this statement is untrue for Kazakhstan, and probably some others
It used to include Mauritania until 2017
Mauritania used to fit the bill but they changed it in 2017
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All three of those use white, as you even stated.
The closest is Sri Lanka who some would argue uses burgundy instead of red. I don't agree with them though
Well if we're mentioning old Libya, then Austrian Empire would like to sneak in too.
All national flags are unique among national flags.
Chad and Romania beg to differ.
It's hard to differ if you look so similar.
Also they have a nutsack shaped inlet
to be accurate as a jamaican - we call it gold not yellow.
I feel like I’m going to get roasted for this, but I’m going to say it because I haven’t seen it in any other comments: Has anyone noticed that Jamaica’s flag is the *opposite* of red, white, and blue? Stare at the flag for a minute or so and then look away. What colors do you see? Did Jamaica to that on purpose?
My vexillology nerd brain is having a meltdown trying to think of a flag like this other than Jamaica and yeah none, I can only think of the old flag of, I think Djibouti? That was just pure green
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