8:27 I'm from the Maldives, and no joke they actually used to make us design the flag in MS Paint as kids because it was so easy I still remember that day in the first Grade 😭😂

Palau, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, India, Pakistan, Argentina, Ukraine, Brazil, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Sweden, Israel, Kazakhstan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Gabon, Bahamas, Nigeria...

If the flag of Sri Lanka counts, then so does the flag of Lithuania. By law, the "red" is described as "purpuro", which translates to "purple" or "magenta".

The problem with Luxembourgs flag is that they have to color it this way. If they made the blue more like the other blues you see in the UK, US, Russia, etc. you'd just get the Dutch flag.

Alright so Wikipedia says the Sri Lankan flag is maroon but Wikipedia itself defines maroon as a "brownish crimson" colour and defines crimson as a "rich, deep red" colour, Wikipedia also lists the RGB value of maroon as (128, 0, 0) which means it consists of 100% red

Hate to break it to you, Toycat, but in art class, we've treated maroon as just another shade of red. If you're gonna make that maroon argument, you gotta make that same argument for the Bahamas with two aquamarine bands and Kazakhstan being turquoise. As for 8:11, that's a legitimate flag. It's not just the flag of the Norwegian Sámi but the flag of Sápmi and ALL Sámi people! It was designed by Astrid Båhl. The red part of the circle symbolizes the sun, the blue part the moon. The colors red, blue, green and yellow reflect the Sámi national costume. Green symbolizes nature, blue for water, red for fire, and yellow for the sun The thing about the Maldives flag is it used to EVEN simpler! The current flag was adopted when they got their independence from the UK, but when they first became a British protectorate in 1796 (which they did after kicking the Dutch out of Ceylon and included the Maldives as part of their influence, but there wasn't an official agreement until 1887), their flag was red...and nothing else. And before that from 1117 to 1796, they had one similar to Nepal's with just red! They did what Gaddafi did with his flag before it was cool.

Is it just me or is Haiti’s flag is actually good with the white background in the symbol.I think it adds some good contrast to the dark blue and red.

About the Lion in Spain's flag: 1. It technically isn't pink, or at least it shouldn't be. The law about the Spanish coat of arms (law 33/1981) states in its first article that the lion is "purple", and the actual official colour assigned to it is commonly described as magenta or reddish-purple. But there's criticism around it saying it's too pink and too saturated, therefore too different from the traditional heraldic purple. 2. The Lion is king because it represents the old Kingdom of Leon. Which alongside Castille, Aragon and Navarra (and also Granada at the bottom if you wanna be picky) form the joint Kingdom of Spain.

Haiti downloaded the wrong type of image

"i'm not a child as best I know" -Toycat 2023. Well let's see your adult certificate then

The very Wikipedia page for Maroon (which you’ve clicked on as it’s purple) describes it as a shade of red.

I don't think your fix to the flag of Haiti works: it makes the icon less recognizable since there is no c9ntrast between the colors from the icon and thos from the background

I prefer if you apply the Luxembourgian red-white-and-blue shades to the Dutch flag. What you get is amazing.

10:40 that flag is actually cool eventhough it breaks the rules of what a flag should look like

Flags have always fascinated me too.. I had a tiny encyclopedia of flags when i was a kid and it was one of my fav books.. i asked for a world map for a xmas gift once.. its cool shit

Oh yeah the older version of the Sri Lankan flag the lion had a whip. And little known fact the lion in the flag represents the Sri Lankan Majority while the Orenge represents the Tamil minority and the Green represents the Muslim minority. The Christian/Burgher minority however only had a Bo leaf to represent them which downgraded them to a religion than their own ethnic group (which they were at the time.) If you have a Sinhalese grandmother you might want to ask her about the attitudes towards the Christian / Burgher community post indipendence.

Insert unpopular opinion meme - "I think the flag of Haiti looks better with the white box"

The Spanish lion is just an early rendition for the pink panther. They wanted to try it on a national level before going global with the cartoons

Fun Fact: Haiti and Liechtenstein had the same exact flag (Blue top and Red Bottom) until the 1936 Olympics where both countries they realized they had the same exact flag, so after the Olympics Liechtenstein changed their flag because it was Haiti's civil flag, but Haiti changed it anyway

8:11 it's not the Norwegian Sami flag, it's just the Sami flag or the flag of the Sami people

Kudos to you for showing our flag at 2:18, comrade! Much appreciated. The red on our flag does indeed symbolize bloodshed, the bloodshed of Korean patriots against the Japanese and the invincible might of our people firmly united to support the Democratic People's Republic. If we include the flags of territories, another flag that includes pink is Turks & Caicos! Within the shield on its flag, there is pink on the queen conch shell! Regarding those Ionian Islands, Britain got them as a result of the aftermath of Napoleon's antics. France occupied them in 1807 and Britain attacked in 1809 and 1810. It has the Lion of St. Mark on the flag because the islands were historically Venetian. They were gifted because after signing the Treaty of London in 1864 with Greece, France and Russia, those who signed wanted to bolster King George I (who was an Anglophile). Plus, the people on those islands wanted to be Greek ever since Greece got their independence from the Ottomans in 1832.

I absolutely love these nerd topics

Whilst I really don't buy the argument for the Sri Lanka flag being an exception to the red-white-blue trend, I will say that the list of exceptions changes depending on the language you're using to refer to these colors. There are languages that don't see pink as it's own color, and merely a shade of "light red", and on the opposite end, there are languages which consider dark blue and cyan to be distinct colors from each other. If you go by this interpretation, you can exclude a few more flags including Bahamas, Kazakhstan, Palau, Rwanda, and maybe another one that I missed.

"I can't draw the flag and I'm not even a child", toycat. Are you sure?

Flag that (doesn't) break(s) all the rules: Flag of Republic of Venice (1659-1675)

"quality of the flag definitely correlates with quality of the country" *looks at France*: you're god damn right

The Haitian flag looks like someone designed it for them without their consent or input, something I'm sure isn't an issue for them in any other area.

The good old red, white, and/or blue (it's literally nearly every country except those 2)

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WOAH YOU'RE SRI LANKAN?!?!? Why have you never brought this up before???

I'm counting Bahamas if Sri Lanka counts. That's more green than blue anyway

I think that you can make your flag complex. Like get a kid to draw wales' flag & you can see that its wales. Likewise you could probably draw parts of the Venetian flag at least enough to recognise which flag it is since how many flags have those kind of tassels.

I recently got into argument in internet with person trying to claim infrared is red... Seriously what is wrong with these people? I don't try to call pink red, even when literally it is "light red" in my mother tongue. I don't know there's a word for maroon in our language either...

I have been to luxembourg last week. It is worth keeping toycat😂

you should do a tier list of all the countries' flags

8:11 That is not the "norwegian sami flag" it is just the Sami flag. It also is a real flag for the Sami people, it wasn't his friend who made it

Maroon is a shade of red on a digital color square gradient, you can see that maroon is a red

Maroon is a darker shade of red

I love flags, now I want to go check on all my Vexiology youtubers I used to watch

3:45 fun fact: this is actual Russian flag from the early 90s

Is that really the British pronunciation of "Haiti"? Americans say "HAY-tea," and I'd guess that there are more Haitians in the US than in the UK.

We need a fight between wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 dragon and Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 lion

He is so luxembourgophobic

2:20 So there must be a red pixel somewhere in that Finnish flag .... hmmm and Ukrainian flag seems to be lacking from this list ... It's not 1st of April yet either .....

bro maroon is a shade of brownish crimson, crimson is a shade of red, brainiac.

It's cousin is a pink panther.

what a great video about maps

"I'm gonna end the video here or else I'll just keep making fun of more countries" Is a very quintessentially English statement.

Great video!

Would like to know what the historical flag is @11:00. Thanks

but even though the Marshall Islands has a good flag, its sinking

Maroon is a variation of red, its like saying that navy or light blue is blue

Fun Fact: colors have various different versions called shades! Some darker, some lighter, some cooler, some warmer. Isn’t that just F A C I N A T I N G!?

I saw the thumbnail on r/vexillology, what an astute guy.

If you want bad flags, look at the US state flags. There are a couple of exceptions. New Mexico's flag is beautiful. But most are just very bad. The lion in the arms of Spain is a standard heraldic lion, save for the crown. If a blazon says just "lion" without any further details, this is what you should draw.

There is a another flag without red, white or blue: The Cocos (Keeling) Islands flag which is green, yellow and brown.

what a nice scubject of conversation

Make a part two about flags and maps

I love the passion and humor! 👊🏾😀

Haiti flag would go crazy if they dropped the graphics and just had the red and blue stripes with that white square in the middle

Why does ‘blue’ cover so many hues from the ocean to the sky, whereas red excludes pink and maroon?

if you change to Luxembourgish blue to more of a British blue, you'd just have another Romania-Chad situation with the Dutch flag

*Sri Lankan Lion:* i do a bigg attac *Spanish Lion:* halp picc me upp hooman *Welsh Dragon:* What the fuck is wrong with you two?!

The colors on the Luxembourg flag remind me of the colors of those red, white, and blue America themed popsicles

You should make a video about national anthems. Why do all national anthems when played on Wikipedia sound like high school band music? Even from African and Asian countries?

Hi Toycat! did you know paint 3d supports transparency? 13:13

I completely agree that the Haiti flag is horrible, thanks for bringing it up. But the Sami flag, that you thought was made up, is actually real and you can see it flying all over Norway.

Thumbnail got me, not gonna lie.

1:10 I'd definitely call the "maroon" on that flag red.

5:05 The official name is actually the United Mexican States and 6:16 it's called Akrotiri and Dhekelia, and it's overseas territory of the UK

What is that flag north of Tibet?

I don't know what I should read into more, why Brits pronounce Haiti as (high-tea) because of their obsession with tea or why Americans pronounce it (Hate-E) because our obsession with hating foreign countries especially the central American countries. 👀 👀

My god can we just fucking agree that Sri Lanka has red Doesn’t matter if it’s a shade or not red is red

Maroon is a shade of red

I like how the Captions say "High Tea"

As a proud Sri Lankan I love this

Challenge for you: make all country flags in minecraft banners

As a sri lankan my self i didnt know it was maroon

maroon is a shade of red toycat

Maroon is a type red it counts Sri Lanka has red on it

1:35 maroon is red and red is red.

Haiti's flag, with its cannons, captures the war mongering soul of the US.

What a clickbait thumbnail. I thought you had a stroke but forgot to mention white and blue

Oh shit at the start I thought this was going in the Liechtenstein Haiti Olympic Game Incident direction. But well.

They missed Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Hindustan. Also, I consider myself to not be a flag fan, but rather A flaggot

Got me with that clickbait lol

The best part about Haiti's flag is that is contains itself, 6 times

I'd say that Sri Lanka's maroon is definetely more red than purple. I'd say that Qatar would count if Sri Lanka does as it's maroon colouring can be more ambiguous.

Technically Maroon is basicly a shade of red, so Sri Lanka falls into that Red White & Blue thing aswell, also Haiti looks alot more worse with the white square gone.

8:13 The Sami flag is an official flag, not just something made by people on the internet.

that thumbnail is so wrong it's hilarious 😂

3:47 the russian flag looks sorta like the flag they used feom 1991-1993 tho the blue being a bit darker

That's interesting

When I hear maroon, all I can think of "that is not a red ball it is a maroon ball"

Can I see your KZfaq analytics after you said told us to unsubscribe last video

Saying sri lanka doesnt have red in it because it is maroon is like saying france doesnt have blue in it because it is navy.

And they said New Zealand was forgotten

Hmmmm Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India, Palau, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Greece, Nauru, Micromesia, Marshall Islands, Argentina, Brazil, Estonia, Rwanda, The Bahamas, Gabon, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and more *have left the room crying*

maroon is red, crimson is red," just different shades

13:12 Why don't u just save the image and put it into paint if it's not working