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This flag won a nationwide poll in 1949, but some changes were made to it afterwards, leading to the Malaysian flag we know today. The reason for these changes seems somewhat unclear, more than that the politician Onn Jaafar suggested them....
The previous flag was very similar, but with 11 stripes and an eleven-pointed star:...
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Wikipedia article
They even have their special national anthem to represent the entire island: Ireland’s Call
Article about the adoption of the flag...
The six points of the Commonwealth star represented the six states of Australia. Later, a seventh point was added to represent the territories....
Notice that the diagonal stripe goes from the top left to the bottom right, unlike most other flags with a diagonal line (DRC, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Solomon Islands, Tanzania). Brunei, however, also has the stripe in this direction....
As of today, Angola still uses this flag, with a machete as a fairly unique feature:...
Brasília is of course a city characterized by its modernist design and architecture, and its geometric layout, so its not more than logical that the flag has a similar feel to it....
For comparison, this is the standard version that you see plenty of nowadays: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png...
The characteristic black-white gyronny is taken from the flag of Lisbon, but with the coat of arms of Ceuta in the middle (looking almost identical to that of Portugal). The addition of this coat of arms almost makes this Spanish city flag more Portuguese than the flags of Portuguese cities....
Wikipedia article about the flags of Napoleonic Italy...
Source: flagsforgood.com/blogs/news/transgender-flag-day...
Info about the flag
Here’s an example of the flags hanging at the Siena city hall:...
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