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The whole site is great! Did you see the sorted flag elements on the last page? 🤩

@conradhackett Breaking the mould of three-barred flags:

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I've always enjoyed the #FunWithFlags segments on #TheBigBangTheory.

I'm confused here. The link takes me to a page with the same image as shown, but I see no accompanying "story" as to WHY they are similar.

The next few posts also appear to be Images of flags with no "stories."

Am I doing something wrong? Or is it just pictures?

@BlippyTheWonderSlug I suggest Googling any country pairs you want to learn more about. You're not doing anything wrong.
@conradhackett Indian flag would be what you get half way between the rotation from Ireland to Ivory Coast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India#/media/File%3AFlag_of_India.svg
Flag of India - Wikipedia

@conradhackett * Correction: Ivory Coast to Ireland.
@conradhackett When Chad achieved independence in 1960 Romania had the Coat of Arms of the Socialist Republic of Romania in the middle of the flag.However, in 1989, the coat of arms was removed entirely after the revolution which overthrew communism and the two flags became very similar. Romania had used this flag starting 1866 with different coat of arms till 1989 when it was removed entirely.
@conradhackett y eso que falta Ecuador, Colombia y Venezuela
@conradhackett But why don’t they have a leaf of their favourite tree? I don’t understand. 🇨🇦

@conradhackett there’s a better twin flag for the Dutch one.

Try comparing Netherlands to Luxemburg

@conradhackett Aren’t there much more? Finland, Sweden, Denmark almost same design with color changes, add contours get Norway and Iceland, etc. Also Norfolk İsland / Nigeria; Add Monaco to Indonesia /. Poland group…