About Flagpedia.net
Flagpedia.net is an actively maintained and updated website with a goal to provide the best overview and source of flags of the world.
Flag images from this website are over 13 years widely used in news magazines, websites, software, mobile apps and master's thesis. One of excellent research with using Flagpedia.net as the main source is What is the most patriotic color on Time.com.
Author and the main maintainer of this website is David Krmela, founder of several educational websites and member of Czech Vexillological Society.
Included country flags
- All 249 countries that are part of ISO 3166-1, the standard defining country codes
- Kosovo with code
XK
that is not currently part of ISO 3166-1, but is temporary used by many organizations (IMF, SWIFT, European Commission) - Individual countries of the United Kingdom (ISO 3166-2:GB):
- England
GB-ENG
- Northern Ireland
GB-NIR
- Scotland
GB-SCT
- Wales
GB-WLS
- England
Notes
Some countries have unofficial flags assigned. They are more frequently used than official flags and also correspond to emoji:
- Caribbean Netherlands (official is the flag of Netherlands)
- French Guiana (official is the flag of France)
- Guadeloupe (official is the flag of France)
- Martinique (official is the flag of France)
- Mayotte (official is the flag of France)
- New Caledonia (official is the flag of France)
- Northern Ireland (official is the flag of United Kingdom)
- Réunion (official is the flag of France)
- Saint Barthélemy (official is the flag of France)
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (official is the flag of United Kingdom)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon (official is the flag of France)
- Wallis and Futuna (official is the flag of France)
There are a few countries having the same flag as another country:
- Bouvet Island (same flag as Norway)
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands (same flag as Australia)
- Saint Martin (same flag as France)
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen (same flag as Norway)
- United States Minor Outlying Islands (same flag as United States)
Source
Flag images are based on vector files from Wikipedia Commons. We are automatically notified of changes done on Wikipedia and manually review them before processing.
License
Flag images are in the public domain (exempt from copyright). They are completely free for non-commercial and even commercial use. You can also download all flags.
Contact
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