Other ones: 🇯🇵 🇯🇲 🇬🇪 🇧🇼 🇨🇭
It's rainy so we need a flag game: Name us countries whose flags are the same upside down.
We'll start: Nigeria 🇳🇬
Very well done 👏
🎉 Well done if you identified the flags of
Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Brunei 🇧🇳
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Portugal 🇵🇹
Here's another quiz: Do you know which flags contain these symbols?
Well done if you said
Uruguay 🇺🇾
Slovakia 🇸🇰
Uganda 🇺🇬
Mongolia 🇲🇳
The Argentinian sun has more rays 🇦🇷
Which flags contain these symbols?
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For our spring 2026 conference, we're going to BRISTOL 🤟
🗓️ 30-31 May
🏠 Gather Round, Brunswick Square, Bristol BS2 8NX
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We're always looking for new articles and presentations, from the UK and overseas.
If you have a flag-related project you’d like to present, contact Leigh on chiefexec@flaginstitute.org
This Saturday 15 Nov is our AGM and winter conference!
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Confirmed speakers:
Peter Kirkwood
José Manuel Erbez
Maxim Saakyan & Leo Torosian
Edgar Zaagsma
Stan Moore
Heather Binnington
It’s World Vexillology Day! Your chance to show off your favourite flag displays.
We’d love to see them! 😍
“A flag is nothing more than a symbol. That’s all it is. Humanity, ever since the dawn of time, we have needed symbols.” - Malcolm’s interview on the Big Issue
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We've been busy speaking to the media about how flags reflect history, identity, and community across the UK.
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Today, Parliament Square is looking particularly stripey – it's Historic County Flag Day!
From Cornwall to Caithness, every flag is out and flapping proudly and competitively in the breeze. Come for the heritage, stay for the vexillology-induced neck strain.
Thoughts?
Things we love to see. Taken today in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
The attendees who were able to stay for the second day visited the Merchant Adventurers' Hall and the York Army Museum today.
Look at all those happy flag nerds! 🤓
Thank you everyone for joining us!
🎤 Visual artist Danladi Kole Bako presented his talk 'Colours: Symbolism for medium of communication', and after a short break, Mike Scott Rumble spoke about the vexillology of civil aviation.
🎤 Stephen Rayner spoke on the contested legitimacy of Croatian symbols in the Anglosphere (1973-99), while Swedish designer Oskar Pernefeldt presented about designing a flag for planet Earth.
🎤 Gustavo Tracchia, founding member of the Argentine Association of Vexillology spoke about the introduction of flags and sashes, and Geoff Parsons, our former chair, spoke about standards, guidons, colours, guns and truncheons.
We’re in beautiful York for our spring conference! 🙌
We hope all of you gorgeous flag nerds attending have a great time hearing from our speakers!
Ok BlueSky, what is your favourite flag fact?
3 years after starting with Cameroon 🇨🇲, Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 completes the African continent in full-colour, to-scale flags hand-painted on a wall 🤟
So it turns out St George’s Day is… today?
We
a) get to celebrate twice 🙌
b) are not complaining 😌
