Japanese minimalist aesthetics come into play even with their flag.

@@Nutty151 "minimalist aesthetic" almost everyone in an anime is of a different hair and eye colour and body type.

@@gamingapocalypse7973 I've seen some anime's where all the characters have black hair and black eyes. It's not common though. I see more people IRL wearing bright colored hair and sometimes eyes, probably influenced by anime as well.

@@Nutty151 haha, pink hair, see Heiakim.

@@Nutty151 It was not suposed to be this minimalistic, is just a modern version of the japanese empire version, witch I think it looks way more cool.

I went for a 1 on every single flag that has another flag within it. And I'm French so I contributed to that. Ah defeat!

@@yrosan I basically voted low scores for every flag but my own which I scored the highest of course 😂 (Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, by the way). I may be a little biased but a dragon is absolutely the best flag. I did vote some others highly as well if they were genuinely really cool, like I think Argentina and a couple other interesting ones. Generally I disliked any that are super boring with just stripes or crosses on them

@@catz497 Flag with dragon is best flag Bhutan go brrrr

@@catz497What score did you give to the flag of Bhutan? (As a dragon flag connoisseur)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooon

And 🇱🇨

egypt with the eagle logo:

Prussia: How'bout the last two colors

@@shamalek egypts flag is godly literally and figuratively

Sadly this flag is miss used by right wing politicians so you maybe can use it in Germany in the future. I like the old flag way better then the one now but the anthem is a big problem too.

@@commemorative k

The Bias is real. And it’s unfortunate really

🤣

@@BasicLib we’re sorry not everyone could win. We made our flag to be as non threatening as possible. Maybe we got extra points for being polite?

@@chnadeau1 I believe so too. Canada is an amazing country and the widespread good sentiment towards canada definitely contributed to it's success, regardless Canada deserves the Win. It pays to be Nice :-) I'm more on the fact that the US apparently had the worst flag in North America to me just seems more to do with people's opinions on the US than it does with their flag which is one of the most Iconic and logically symbolic flags on Earth(it literally tells the story of their country). Canada's by contras is more like a corporate logo (it's basically a Bi colour pretending to be a tri with a maple leaf to represent canada so as to be as least offensive as possible as Quebec would have protested anything else). it's basically Peru with a maple leaf. that's what the OP is saying

exactly lol

ughhh drawing it was a PAIN, and I still can't draw it

Peru

I love our flag. I'm sure there's bias, but it is instantly recognizable and in general I like flags that are distinct from the usual collection of stars, stripes and moons. I like Lebanon's flag, and the Silver Fern from New Zealand, for the same reasons.

r/place trauma, for whoever witnessed that mess lol

Same, drawing it was the worst but I learned to really like it, as i had to see it every day at school

Khabib won MCgregor

Personally I like the Irish one better. It just looks wrong with the orange being first.

Id like to see Ivory Coast change there flag since 😂

@@user-rb1vr1qx8b ok we know... not many Irish people have respect for him why did you even comment that?

Yes facts

Flag of the USA is not square. It's 16:9. Edit: Sorry. Let's say that US flag's ratio is unique - 16:9 (instead of typical rectangular 3:2 or 2:1)

Best part of the Nepal flag is that that shape is defined geometrically in their constitution.

@@Sfaxx he said rectangular mate

@@bernardomacara6284 he edited comment)

@@Sfaxx no they didn’t

british is extremely easy to remember and the american one is copied more than it should be tbh. british is st georges cross on top of st patrick on top of st andrew, representing the patron saints of each of the countries. the Georgian cross on its own is used for countries including england and georgia.

Tell that to r/place

It is not only simple but very easy to recognize and not confuse with another. According to one ranking Canada is the third most recognized flag in the world despite Canada not exactly being one of the most pre eminents countries in the world and its flag not being one of the oldest.

Lol​@@AAAAAAnotwo

Couldn't agree more. I honestly have no idea what Scotland is doing so high on the list. No hate to them, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't say their flag looks very well designed. A country like Bhutan or the Seychelles would in my opinion have more potential to compete with the Welsh flag, but apparently most other people don't agree. Also think Brazil's flag is quite underrated, but that is a bit off point.

Definitely, I prefer England’s flag over Scotland’s flag too.

Scotlands flag is neat but shouldnt be in the top 10. Wales shouldve been number 1.

From vexillology perspective, Scotland's is better and cleaner looking.

Absolutely! How can any non-dragon flag compete with a dragon containing one? The only competition Wales should face is from Bhutan.

Circle in the middle of paper perfect

The list is trash. The people who voted have no taste

🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵triangular flag! awesome !

Yeah i don't like canada's flag, it uses 2 colours and just has a leaf. Same with Japan

@@freerights6695 some of them are alright, although i think canada, japan and norway shouldn'y be there

I love the South African flag.

It's far too cluttered and complicated.

​@@robertwoodrow9650Then I really hope you don't see Turkmenistan's flag cause you are gonna flip

Your picks are very nice! 🔥 Barbados is top 10 easily

Triste, mas ainda fomos bem haha

I love Brazil's flag, though. It's really well designed.

@@felipdsccp a gente ganhou dos portugueses e dos argentinos, não dá pra pedir mais do que isso. 😆

@@jpgsouza2001 isso é verdade, dos reais inimigos nós ganhamos kkkkkkkk

Brazil has what could be a really good flag that's being held back by cramming loads of details and text and whatnot into it. Remove the text and simplify the star field to just the Southern Cross and it would be an excellent flag.

It's a nice flag

Its an awesome flag either way

I hate the Nepal flag

yeah

Ironic.

also y'know Yemen

Gluten tag

Sad yellow, green and blue Brazilian noises

Yes

@ROHITASVA PARASHAR I know, is just a bread joke. BTW Gunten NICE

How dare you show nationalism, without inviting me to join you

Congrats to us i guess! And sorry fore having a better flag guys. 😜

Hong Kong ranked 2nd!

@@cedricduchesne866 there are far nicer flags and trust me only some people voted , if everyone around the world voted , the first flag would be different

Ye sick flag love Canada from Britain

Yes. It would be interesting to know the voters' nationality.

The major problem with this is that the vast vast majority of that 1.1M votes don't know 90% of flags. As a Canadian, Canadas flag is Good but compared to other countries like Seychelles, personally my favourite flag, it genuinely doesn't come close.🇸🇨 also some good others include 🇧🇧 🇸🇿 🇦🇪 🇧🇹 🇰🇮 and as far as well known flags go, South Africa and Uk looks great.

@@somethung8188 the fact that the majority of people didnt know 90% of the flags is a big positive. the poll was about flag DESIGN and people that dont know where a flag is from will give their most unbiased opinion

6 out of 10... are commonwealth countries with huge majotities of people speaking english.This poll is too biased.

@@somethung8188 Seychelles flag is garbage

Yeah 😂😂

Ofc, cuz Indians may not be interested on such topics

@@GoD_LoRD04 but it seems you are interested 😂😂

Wait for algo to reach them

@@sanketroy3017 yes, I'm interested

Ikr

and Poland

@@ShadowSkryba poland aint big lmao

@@svenwildhaber3746 It's 9th biggest in Europe

Germany is just an american startup

actually your right their flag is pretty nice

It's my fav flag after Uzbekistand and Switzerland

Actually really like the flag, my almost nordic brother😉

I personally like the Estonian flag but the country’s with the best flags for me come from Europe and North America

@@Flanetbot Estonia is in Europe.

*the Weimar republic intensifies*

For the Kaiser

They're Arab colours now 😂

Because Yemen? Oh, right, ze Germans.

Egypt has all that plus a gold eagle. Thought it would score pretty high

I think they are the ones who added it

@@lukad7744 Yea. He said that in 3:54

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Try British Hong Kong Flag

It's just a shame it's kind of boring apart from the leaf

Anglos trying to not be biased and or change the spelling of Spanish level impossible

@light yagami First know more about Hindutva, there is clear fucking difference between Hindutva and Hinduism

Its unique but not the best

While I agree with the worst ones, the "best flags" are kinda BS. Maybe its just different taste but it smells like bias. Common UK & Scotland? I would put them pretty much to the bottom not counting some weird oversea-territory island flags

*Jacksfilms noises*

Unique yes but ugly

Same

Its a badass flag.

🇳🇵🇳🇵Nepal flag is the unique one 💯. ♥️♥️🇮🇳🇮🇳

I prefer Sri Lanka but Nepal is second on my list

Finally I see some people who know nepal

Canada did it.

England, France and the U.S. must be pretty livid about the number of their territories that made the list too

Macau at the corner: *sweats nervously*

@@HKBritons never

@@HKBritons Hong Kong is definitely a part of China, but should the citizens of Hong Kong want independence I would be in favour of it.

Also Canadian and I was expecting a top 10 and possibly top 3 finish, not out of patriotism but because I've read articles written by marketing experts who praise the Maple Leaf's design as highly distinctive, eye-pleasing and memorable. It's super easy to spot in a picture with dozens of over a hundred flags where most of the rest blur into each other, sharing too many elements in common. Even the US flag has several others that resemble it (intentionally in most cases) and stripes are a very common motif. The 1:2:1 ratio of vertical colouration on the Maple Leaf is peculiar enough that the central square is known as a Canadian pale in vexilollogy (the study of flags). Pearson never really planned it as such but he left us a brilliant bit of national branding. I had expected Nepal's incredibly unique flag to grab the top spot though. Not surprised that South Africa made the top 10 along with us since their current flag was also a flashy departure from a prior more traditional design.

as an American, I totally expected it, Your flag is wicked awesome

Im Canadian and I kinda did expect it! Canada is famously loved

I honestly don’t like our flag a ton

Such a Canadian answer! ;) With love from America

They don't have square flags they have rectangular flags

@@thekingofracoons only Switzerland and Vatican City have square flags, the rest are rectangular in some way

@@deceitfulmat2411 Well technically square flags are also rectangular flags ^^

Denmark has a swallow tail flag, it is just customary to use a rectangular version when putting it side by side with other flags.

There's a punchline we have in India which goes "Antrik mamla hai." Which means "This is our internal matter." It came about when the external affairs ministry replied to a tweet by Rihanna om the Farmer's protest 😂

@@garth2356🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

@@vvksailor 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

This is the reason I don’t see any Indians taking over the comments 😂

@@garth2356 lol same in china

non uk voters: its ugly uk voters: uk so coool fixed it for you xD

The flag is nice, watermarks (i.e. flag slapped on other flags) are not however.

Try British Hong Kong Flag

I'm not a nationalist but the UK flag is brilliant, it's really unique and colourful

@@lukea997 it's the worst flag 😂😂 hated by half of those it claims to represent (and don't get me started on the lack of Wales representation on the actual flag)

And, of course, very recognisable, which is important.

You've inaccurately captured the elements of the Union Jack. Firstly, there is no Northern Irish flag. Northern Ireland was never a distinct entity before the partition of Ireland in the early 1900s, and accordingly it doesn't have a unique flag (still to this day their only official flag is the entire Union Jack). Also, the Union Jack dates back to the early 1800s, a century earlier than Northern Ireland was partitioned into existence. Secondly, the Union Jack consists of the flags of the patron saints of the Kingdom of England (which included Wales), the Kingdom of Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland, respectively, as they existed at the time of the flag's creation. The Kingdom of England is represented by the red Cross of St. George which we all know and associate with England. The Kingdom of Scotland is represented by the saltire of St. Andrew, which is of course the blue x that we all know and associate with Scotland. However, Ireland is represented by the saltire of St. Patrick, which was neither a flag used to represent Ireland historically nor a flag used historically in relation to St. Patrick. It has been linked with the coat of arms of a family dynasty (Fitzgerald) who had great control in the Irish province (historically Kingdom) of Leinster. It became associated with Ireland in the late 1700s when it was assigned to the Order of St. Patrick, a British order of chivalry established by Anglo-Irish Protestants in Ireland (this was also the first time it was associated with St. Patrick). The Kingdom of Ireland's flag at the time was a gold harp on a blue field, the harp being of historical significance and a well known symbol of Ireland. The Union Jack's continued use of the saltire of St. Patrick is a bit of an affront to Ireland, although it doesn't really offend or cause much notice. It is a symbol the British chose to associate with Ireland and it's patron saint, only possible due to their colonisation of the island which carries some very bitter history. While still relevant due to Northern Ireland remaining in the UK, as well as Scotland failing to achieve independence through referendum, one has to wonder what would become of the Union Jack should either of those two things cease to be a reality.

@@brianmathews2926 absolutely none of this proves his first comment was inadequate. Well written though.

@@XXXTENTAClON227 His comment says the Union Jack includes the Northern Irish flag. Such a thing doesn't and has never existed.

@@brianmathews2926 A thing did exist until 1973, it was known as the Ulster Banner.

🇬🇱 Looks cool too imo 😎

nepal has the most unique flag for sure

Interesting how south Africa has all the hated colors

s even iam indian i love nepal flag it is special

Our vedic flag 🇳🇵🇳🇵🕉️🕉️

Japan : we have weebs on our side.

Iceland norway sweden denmark finland,not just Iceland and norway

@@kaede2282 he meant that they share the same colours but they are used in different parts of the flag

@@Eskiii they have different colours

@@kaede2282 take a good look: blue white and red.

And they save money on material.

I’d rather have Nepal flag over Hong Kong one, they’re both good but Nepal’s just seems better.

@Rom Rom Ji What does that have to do with their flag?

@Rom Rom Ji stop behaving like a kid

@Rom Rom Ji ?????? LoL

Lol.....

Shame non-Indians won't get that joke. 😂

@@gazpachopolice7211 true😂😂

@@gazpachopolice7211 I'm an but I also don't get that joke

@@what_the_heck_101 Indian middle aged uncles forward messages in whatsapp groups such as: UNESCO has declared Indian anthem to be the best anthem UNESCO has declared Indian flag to be the best flag UNESCO has declared Indian PM to be the best PM ... and so on. So that's the joke.

finally someone said Jamaica

sorry we're better than you

Yea sorry about that

Canada definitely has the best flag, and I’m not just saying that because I’m Canadian.

Lessee go we won

Not sorry in the least. lol

I was very suprised by that too, but I guess I was voting dominica's flag

If people like the colour white in a flag, then Japan's got that figured out.

It represents the sun, and I would say it's actually pretty iconic in it's simplicity.

@@mvnkycheez Basically its just a bloody red circle in a white background, and surprisingly the most voted flag as the best flag were artistically almost the same like GB and scotland, Iceland and Norway(the colour is just different), Hongkong and Canada(In the middle of the Hongkong flag is some sort of flower(orchid??) while Canada is a maple leaf), and not gonna lie Japanese and Korean flag is kind a same with the Korean adding something around their flag and blue and red circle in the middle. South Africa is not bad not terrible and if people choose Whales for its dragon then cool even though Bhutan exist.

simplistic, 2 colours, has a history and a meaning, easy to draw, why wouldnt it make top 10?

because nearly everyone dismisses African countries because it's not a well-known continent, and same with Oceanian countries (besides Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Tuvalu) And that made me angry because most African flags and Oceanian flags are actually awesome/epic (like Eswatini, Mozambique, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Seychelles like you mentioned, Lesotho, and many more) and people are just dismissing them because they don't even know them???? I can't even

@@vvg_lol Mozambique has an AK47 on it, why is that cool?

@@JB-yb4wn it's badass tbh

@@vvg_lol it’s tiny tho-

Good person:-)

Me to honestly.

I cheered, wasn't expecting that

Really llol I had a feeling it would be canada. When traveling, people abroad always say we have the coolest flag

Japan: make huge red dot Canadas: make huge red leaf

Same

Or they were angry they didn't get the first place.

It's just a dot

Honestly I think it’s a beautiful flag. Understated but iconic.

Honestly I was wondering how the Japanese flag got so highly rated as well. Overall it is a very simplistic design, and while I can understand that some people might enjoy that in a design, no other really simplistic designs broke top 10, so I'm not sure why Japan's in particular made it there. The only time I can really say that it was *iconic* as such is World War II, unless I'm missing its modern implications. Either that or it got rated so highly in part because Japan has become somewhat of an 'obsession' country in recent times, and people just want to rate it highly because they're obsessed with Japan aha. That would help explain why Japanese people themselves happen to be the only ones in the world to underrate their own flag!

To think if the "Imperial Japan flag" would still be in use I would have voted that quite high. Not because of the negative background of it. But that makes me wondering if Japanese people feel like there current flag feels to reminiscent to the Imperial one?!

@@thando4523 yes we do😉

What surprized me was how low they ranked Namibia. The colours are similar to SAs flag.

Best one of them all 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

I would have had it in first place for sure. Love that damn flag of yours!

@@olamsoevik it’s ugly af

I know I was disappointed with 4th lol

@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii7738 Me too.

@@lennonkelly-james2693 I'm English, Australian and I have to say I love the six colours of the South African flag. I thought it would rate higher than it did. Of course I love the UJ as well.

Both the Australian And NZ flags are incredibly boring, dull, unimaginative, and can't even be recognized by many in the world. There are excellent alternative ideas on the internet that look great, and are just SO much better.

@@robertwoodrow9650 Stiff. There's a reason for those flags and there are planty of other far more boring flags in the world. Take a look round.

well, scandinavia has good flags

@@commemorative Nah bruh, its so unoriginal, its all just a cross on a piece of different coloured confetti paper

Unsurprisingly

@@hooby7045 Yes, and?

@@hooby7045 By that logic, every flag is unoriginal, just a bunch of different colours, symbols munched together in different patterns.

Lol

I feel like some people voted the country they r from

But that's a good thing, right? You're not voting on the country, you're voting on whether or not you like the flag's looks.

@@thatjeff7550 eh, i honestly think that It all has to go down to the meaning of the flag, not just the design, anybody would make the most crazy flag out there and everybody loving it, but the flag with the Deepest meaning/significance and history will be totally overlooked

@@johnmcfly-zf2xh but in this case it's just for the design so it's ok lol

Barbados is so coooooool!

And South Africa just cheating by having all the colours.

@@dirkbrand9859And shapes

@@dirkbrand9859 they wanted to be on the safe place just in case... Seems it worked somehow

Umm it’s actually the other way around, those are the LEAST favourite colours. Still Brazil ranked pretty high despite the colour palette

Actually, this are the colours that the people dislike the most. Brazil scored very high to stay in 19th position!

Designers too. It’s a stunning flag.

yes sri lanka is so good

how did Kiribati win that flag is really bad imo

True. People are really biased when it comes to ranking flags and other national things.

Personally not a huge fan of it, but then i dont really like animals or crests on flags.

Imagine in school teacher says you to draw your flag and you have to draw that lion

Flags are meant to be cheap to manufacture and reproduce, plus recognisable from a distance. A lion holding a sword is neither of those things

@@GeneralPeragorn where is this rule that flags are meant to be cheap to reproduce? We are not living in 15th century..Flags of today represent nationalism and nothing else

For best btw

I got 2

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Albania has a black eagle xD

@@fatimexhika6867 But.. *leaf*

XD unrelated but my name is Nishant Acharya close enough

@@knashboi3914 aeeee 😂😂, Nepal or India?

@@nischarya India lol. Nice to meet you😂

@Abhirup Nath I mean there are Aryans, Dravidians, Mongols and much more just in my village. So it's pretty diverse I would say. 😂😂

If Nepal would have been internationally popular, it would have definitely ranked in the top 10!

Are you rooting for crecent moon flags?

Netherlands* It's plural

Luxembourg's is better fot sure

You misunderstand the data. The people from Luxembourg hate the EU flag whereas people from the Netherlands like the EU flag

It's a great flag I would've put it top 3

Yeah was quite surprised but happy

Love your flag m8

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Heel fijn man! Hoeveel hiervan kan je trouwens begrijpen zonder translate te gebruiken? Afrikaans is grappig.

I believe the sun flag (with the rays) was the naval flag in WW2. Maybe it still is? Even better than the actual national flag!

I think Welsh

gotta go with US flag then

@@Anonymous-cm8jy I don't think so

@@kevin080592 I wonder. I was surprised it didn't make any of the lists, like most over or underrated or anything.

I'd vote Zambia very near the top! Unique colour combo and design... and it has an eagle on it! Looks bad ass to me!

*people from Monaco*

@@violets.and.violets at least Monaco is square

Same thing happen s between Peru & Austrian Flags

greenlands too

@@skyzaddiescult7439 Greenland flag is pretty cool 🇬🇱

It's Sri Lanka .