Saw this while driving. Tried to look it up with no luck.

As the post title suggests, an alternate set of flags imagining if all Germanic countries used the Nordic Cross.

Germany is based on the Reichskriegsflagge used by the German Empire, which is adopted as the national flag instead of the tricolour of black-white-red.

Austria adopted a flag based on Germany's but with the Hapsburg colours after WWI, essentially as a middle finger to the Entente who said they couldn't unify with Germany, call their nation "German Austria", or bring back the Hapsburgs.

Switzerland adopted theirs following the 1848 Federal Constitution, when one of deputies saw a one of the early proposals for a federal German war ensign by Prince Adalbert and really like it, changed the colour scheme of one to match the old flag and put it forward as to match Swiss Federalism with German Federalism. (Plus it's the only way I could make it work chronologically).

England, like in our timeline, got their flag from the crusades, but opted to make it a Germanic Cross as to pre-compensate for the fly fraying.

Scotland adopted their flag from the crusades as well, originally being white on red to match French soldiers, but later swapped to white on blue to match the flag of their patron saint, St Andrew's Saltire, but like England opted to make it a Germanic Cross for the same reason.

These flags later combined with Ireland and Wales to form the Union Jack as on image 15. Britain is still Britain so does what Britain does to Ireland, leading to an alternate set of flags for Northern Ireland to obsess about (16+17).

The Netherlands, adopted a Germanic cross to match their ally England in their war for independence from Spain, they just changed up the colours to match the House of Orange-Nassau.

Finland, while not shown on the map, still uses their modern flag, tho it feels a bit odd in the group in this timeline. (14)

Belgium still uses their tricolour, after their independence from the Netherlands, Wallonia held more political power and French was the sole official language for a while so it's unlikely they would adopt the Germanic cross as their official flag.

Luxembourg is like Belgium, too French. Tho without the Dutch tricolour to go off, I imagine they use the Red Lion instead.

Liechtenstein, in order to distance themselves from Nazi controlled Germany and Austria, as well as the Nazi Banker of Switzerland got rid of their Germanic cross and adopted their modern day bicolour instead (And I totally didn't forget about them).

I also included some alternate timeline social media posts.

I’ve been down an absolute rabbit hole reading actual codified flag laws across Europe, and it’s wild how many national banners either violate their own constitution, tore up international agreements, or triggered massive political meltdowns over tiny technicalities.

A few of the craziest ones:

• Vatican City Back in late 2017, an editor on Wikimedia Commons uploaded a freshly vectorized SVG of the Vatican flag with a subtle mistake: the inner base of the papal tiara was colored red instead of white. Because flag manufacturers worldwide treat Wikimedia as their default clip-art repository, the faulty vector went straight to production. For nearly five years, incorrect flags quietly flew outside cathedrals, parishes, and embassies across the globe. Vexillologists finally patched the file in 2022, and Pope Francis put the matter to bed in 2023 by promulgating a new Fundamental Law that included officially codified drawings.

• Liechtenstein Liechtenstein had happily flown a simple horizontal blue-and-red bicolor for decades, codifying their 18th-century princely colors into the 1921 constitution. Fast forward to the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics: the Liechtenstein squad marched into the stadium only to look across the track and see Haiti parading under the exact same banner (Haiti had used the plain bicolor as their civil flag since the 19th century). To save face and ensure they'd never live through that mutual cringe again, Prince Franz Joseph II decreed in June 1937 that a golden princely coronet (Fürstenhut) be pinned into the canton.

• Belgium Article 193 of the Belgian Constitution explicitly dictates the national colors in this exact order: "red, yellow, and black". During the 1830 revolution, the stripes were actually horizontal. When the provisional government pivoted to vertical bands in 1831, a ministerial circular ordered the black stripe to the hoist—both to satisfy heraldic conventions regarding the Brabant lion and to avoid looking like the Dutch flag at a distance. Almost two centuries later, virtually every flag is flown black-yellow-red, and not a single parliament has ever bothered amending the constitutional text.

• Czechia When Czechoslovakia dissolved at the end of 1992, both sides passed Federal Act No. 542/1992. Article 3, Paragraph 2 explicitly forbade either successor state from reusing federal state symbols. Slovakia played by the book, designing a new flag with their patriarchal double cross. The Czech National Council simply bypassed the pact, passed domestic Act No. 3/1993 keeping the 1920 Czechoslovak flag, and shrugged off Slovak protests by arguing that the original designer (Jaroslav Kursa) was Czech and federal laws ceased to exist once the federation died.

• Italy Until the early 2000s, Italian tricolors came in every imaginable shade of green and red. In 2003, Silvio Berlusconi’s administration attempted to standardize official flag fabrics, famously dubbing the dyes verde felce (fern green), bianco latte (milk white), and rosso pomodoro (tomato red). The center-left opposition blew a gasket, branding it a "chromatic coup" (golpe cromatico) that degraded the Risorgimento. It sparked a surreal three-year parliamentary feud that wasn't settled until an official 2006 decree ditched the poetic food names for clinical Pantone Textile codes (17-6153 TC, 11-0601 TC, and 18-1662 TC).

• France In 1976, President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing brightened the flag's navy stripe to a vibrant cobalt so it would match the EEC flag and look sharper on color television. In July 2020, Emmanuel Macron quietly ordered the Élysée Palace flags swapped back to historic revolutionary navy (bleu marine)—and didn't mention it to a soul for 16 months until eagle-eyed reporters broke the story in late 2021. Because Article 2 of the French Constitution vaguely states only that the emblem is "blue, white, and red," both shades are legally valid, meaning Paris ministries simply fly whichever blue their facility managers prefer.

• Poland Poland’s 1980 National Symbols Act specifies its official red using an obsolete 1930s colorimetric formula: CIE 1931 trichromatic coordinates ($x, y, Y$) with a $\Delta E$ tolerance under CIE 1976 ($L^*u^*v^*$), measured against "Illuminant C" (a 1931 daylight standard lacking UV light). The law never established modern digital conversions like sRGB, HEX, or CMYK. Because different software packages translate that 1930s math into digital gamuts inconsistently, government websites, embassies, and national sports jerseys constantly clash—drifting from bright strawberry red to deep crimson. A 2021 bill attempted to lock down #D4213D, but it died in legislative committee.

There’s another version I posted to [r/Flags](r/Flags)

The Yellow (gold) represents the Light of God, and the Green represents life, growth, hope, and spiritual renewal.

Symbolism:
1.The flag based on a national korean colours (red, blue and white)
2.The symbol is a Magnolia sieboldii (North Korean national flower) with the taegukgi (Yin Yang) in the middle.

I couldn't find the og post, if anyone find it please send the link in the comments.

In this flag, I tried to make it look that the scythe is being launched to the corner, cutting the ouroboros

So, here is the picture of the flags of Australia & New Zealand, pretty basic, and by historic merits, that would be the standard, however, as shown with the Bermudas island, there seems that they also once did a "Red" design of the flag, hence "Red UK Flag" it would basicly be this, but the big blue on the flag, would be red, so basicly a red flag with a Union Jack in the corner, what happened to these flags? Why did they all go away? (And why Bermudas didn't?)

Spotted this sticker on the back of VW Polo in Ferrara, Italy. I was riding my motorcycle (ik I should absolutely not take out my phone and take a pic in this situation forgive me and my curiosity lol), so sorry for the bad quality. I couldn't really take a good look at it, but it looked like a light blue, white, and green horizontal tricolor with a red eagle in the middle.

Also attached a decently close reconstruction of what I think I saw.

I tried looking it up but couldn't figure out what it might be. Any help identifying it would be appreciated!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Gananoque,_Ontario.svg

It's primarily based on the town's coat of arms

Alright, you guys havent really liked my past two flags. But, I redesigned the Lousiana flag! Im really proud of this one in my opinion, and AS a Louisianan myself, I tried to put alot of thought into this design. As you're going to see in the next few posts I do, I wanted to go in the direction of Mississippis flag design, Mainly for Louisiana, Mississippi, And Alabama. But hope you enjoy!

(colour schemes explained in captions)

An American Flag, and an American flag upside-down! It's pretty crazy.

I think it's interpreted as this:

The US flag at the top is pride of being American, and the Upside-down flag of the US at the bottom is disdain against the government

Today's flag is for Todd County which was founded in 1820 and named for Joh Todd. The county was a major agriculture hub. Unfortunately, it was also a major producer of slaves. And it was the birthplace of Confederate "president" (traitor) Jefferson Davis.

The flag I made is yellow for prosperity with a red border to symbolize the blood lost during the civil war that Davis led. The black star is in honor of many slaves that suffered here, both named and unnamed. The reef is in honor of their labors and what was stolen from them.

Hope you all enjoy.

This is a very attractive design - especially since I am an agricultural scientist.

1. Ester

2. Orodésert

3. Vallédiamant

4. Valivoire

5. Orisable

6. Pluviacôte

7. Vall- Luxe

8. Lunaria

Ester is a nation from my game, and it has colonies. I decided to make some flags, so please give me advice if you think I should change anything about them. The first flag is the normal flag; the next four are the Desert Colonies, and the last 3 are the Jungle Colonies. I based the flags off of French colonial flags; please tell me what you guys think down below! Do the colors fit, are the symbols a good choice, etc.? How can I change the flags?

Yes, this's official.

https://www.leelanau.gov/

Most flags are specified with a picture and a ratio. Nepal's is specified with a construction.

The constitution lays out a step by step geometric construction for the double pennon shape, compass and straightedge style: draw this line, strike this arc, mark this angle, in order. If you follow the steps exactly, the shape you get has a width to height ratio of about 1 to 1.219, a famously unround number that nobody chose, it just falls out of the geometry.

It is also why Nepal is the only national flag that is not a quadrilateral, and why badly drawn versions look subtly wrong even when you cannot say why. The crimson and blue and the sun and moon are the easy parts, the outline is the hard part.

Curious what other flags have weird design specs like this. Any other constitution defined constructions out there?