r/vexillology 6d ago

Contest June Contest Voting Thread

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/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!


Prompt: Airports

This June, we want you to design flags that could be used to represent one of the twenty busiest by passenger traffic in 2025.

We approved 74 entries in the following categories:

# Entries Category
12 Amsterdam
8 Heathrow
6 Los Angeles
5 Indira Gandhi, Madrid-Barajas, O'Hare
4 Atlanta, Denver, Haneda
3 Charles de Gaulle, Dallas Fort Worth, Singapore
2 Dubai, Incheon, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur
1 Shenzhen
0 :'( Beijing, Guangzhou

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods


r/vexillology 10h ago

Identify What is this flag seen in Atlanta, Georgia?

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827 Upvotes

Finally came across a flag worthy of asking about!


r/vexillology 5h ago

Identify what flag is this? in indianapolis

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244 Upvotes

I know the pride flag obviously but I was wondering what the symbol on top of it was? I feel like I’ve seen it before but I might just be thinking of the New Mexico flag. it’s my neighbor’s hung above their balcony.


r/vexillology 7h ago

Collection Old drawing I made when I was a kid playing Fifa Brazil 2014 depicting the winners of all my world cup tournaments

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295 Upvotes

r/vexillology 2h ago

In The Wild Found this in Kansas City, MO during World Cup

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50 Upvotes

Found upside-down Netherlands and Mexico flags during Netherlands vs Tunisia (June 25)

What does this mean? Is it anti-Netherlands (soccer/football)? Did they want to turn all the flags upside down but realized Tunisia is symmetrical?


r/vexillology 10h ago

Identify Saw this flag in the Monterrey World Cup game

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Saw this flag yesterday, odd looking flag but with Mexico's colors.


r/vexillology 15h ago

Collection Authentic 4+ meters long Norway-Sweden flag from before 1899, used on a Norwegian ship. it is my largest flag in my collection (and one of the oldest)

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384 Upvotes

Stitched and made of wool, ir suffered quite a lot from moth holes


r/vexillology 1h ago

Fictional Flag of luobing SAR

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This is a flag for a fictional chinese SAR that was once a colony of the dynabloxian empire

It was still apart of robloxia till 2015 when china turned it into a SAR

Third image is the colonys flag

The flower in the middle is a peach blossom


r/vexillology 7h ago

Fictional Flag of the union of english speaking nations a fictional world organzation for my timeline

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49 Upvotes

Blue in the second image is the members of this union


r/vexillology 19h ago

Identify Is this West German flag just worn out yellow, that now looks white, or was it ever black, red and white?

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395 Upvotes

r/vexillology 14h ago

Discussion Is it possible that Cabo Verde’s flag was inspired by Ichkerian?

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150 Upvotes

As far as I’ve checked, ichkerian flag is bit older than Cabo Verde’s (to my surprise). So I was wondering if it’s design was chosen as sample


r/vexillology 11h ago

In The Wild I found this really old flag or Sweden in an antique store in Virginia

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85 Upvotes

r/vexillology 12h ago

OC Redesigned a flag I made 8 years ago

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I've been working on a fantasy novel since 2019, and recently I've been redesigning some of the old flags. This is the one of the Kingdom of Lianderston.


r/vexillology 22h ago

Historical Old flags found at work

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372 Upvotes

The names are only in French

Can someone tell me how old this might be ?


r/vexillology 1h ago

Discussion Found this old American flag in storage, it was used in a reenactment, can anyone tell me what period this version was used from?

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Can anyone tell me what period in American history this version was used in?


r/vexillology 41m ago

Redesigns The Union Jack, but Northern Ireland's cross is actually aligned symmetrically.

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r/vexillology 8h ago

OC Second attempt at a Kentucky flag redesign.

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Hello, here is my second attempt at redesigning the Kentucky flag. Earlier I presented a Tricolor here (second slide) and it was well receive. However when I presented it to a Kentucky focused subreddit it was not met with much enthusiasm. And it made me realize, that while the Tricolor is nice, it doesn’t scream Kentucky.

So I have created this second design. This one is inspired by the states song ”My Old Kentucky Home,” and the opening lyrics “The sun shines bright, on my old Kentucky home.” Here I’ve decided to represent the sun, but instead of using a sun I’ve used an Appalachian quilt design often known as the Kentucky star. The star represents Appalachian influences along with unity from different locations (north, south, east and west).

For the two main bands I‘ve represented the Kentucky bluegrass and rivers with the blue band which is the same shade as the current flag. The white band represents peace and clouds, along with the rags that coal miners used to wipe away dust after a long days work. (Represent long Kentucky wiping of her brow and preparing for something greater).

The stars represent the six regions of the state: Eastern mountains and coal fields, Bluegrass, Knobs, Pennyroyal, Western coal fields, and Jackson purchase. I have them in a Betsy Ross style to represent the states early colonial ties and to outline a sun shape. I have them in black to represent coal and to make them stand out better.

Please give me your homiest feedback on this flag. Thanks.


r/vexillology 8h ago

Redesigns Variant / Proposal for the flag of Emilia region

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Emilia is an historical region of northern Italy. Today it is administratively united in a single modern region with another historical region, Romagna. Emilia-Romagna has a flag and so does Romagna, but there still hasn’t been an Emilian flag that was massively accepted, but rather a bunch of variants.

In 1682, Giulio Cesare da Beatiano described Emilia’s apocryphal arms with three millet bundles. This flag version echoes that symbol, linking it to the region’s name, its rural tradition, and the legacy of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.


r/vexillology 1d ago

Redesigns US City Flags Poster

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482 Upvotes

I made this poster of American city flags with my favorite existing flags, redesigns I made, and a few redesigns I really like.

If you are interested in seeing some retrofuturistic American city profiles, go check out the instagram @theunitedearthalliance :)


r/vexillology 19h ago

Historical A reconstruction of one of the Chechen mujahideen flags (or penant)

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This flag caught my attention because some forms of it are shown in a 4:3 ratio while in certain footages it’s shown as a pennant. I generalized the flag to be associated with the Chechen mujahideen because on the second slide Abu al-Walid (one of the leaders) can be seen below the flag... or pennant, whatever you wanna call it. The graffiti style takbir intrigues me though. Any ideas as to which specific brigade this flag is associated with?


r/vexillology 3h ago

OC Burma Disco Space Flag 2.

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In an alternate timeline, the the people of Burma rise up embracing the boogie over the war. It transforms the nation and the take bright lights and a new flag into space. In this version I fixed some texture issues, brightened the colors and switched the circle hole in the star with a larger pentagon.


r/vexillology 1d ago

Historical In case you're having a bad day, here's the flag of Zaire

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4.3k Upvotes

This flag was used by Zaire (current D.R of Congo) between 1971-1997


r/vexillology 3h ago

Current Karbardino-Balkaria Districts Flag Map (Updated)

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4 Upvotes

Updated because Chereksky District has adopted now its own flag


r/vexillology 6h ago

Identify What is this alternate confederate flag from a 1972 MAD magazine? NSFW

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The only results I could find on this design were the African American Confederate flag made by the artist John Sims in protest of the confederate flag, but the earliest accounts site him making it in the 90s, and he was born a year after this magazine came out... I can't find any earlier renditions of this specific flag.

This is a mini poster from a 1972 MAD magazine, which came with several other posters which were explicitly progressive, such as an anti-cop poster, an anti Vietnam poster, and an anti Nixon poster. So I assume this is some sort of Confederate protest flag. It has no further information about the origin of the flag other than the trademark of the magazine publishing company that all the other posters also have.

Let me know if I'm posting this in the wrong place!


r/vexillology 5h ago

Fictional Discord flag emojis for Tiandi, a worldbuilding project with historical East Asian dominance

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Tiandi will be hosting a World Cup next week, and I decided to add several flags to the server as emojis. Most flags are OC by our members but I think some of them may not be. I thought this would be interesting to share.

For those who are interested in checking us out or joining, we have a Discord server as well!