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Lithuania is my favourite west African country 🙂

I'm an Ethiopian. So happy you covered this. One thing I'd like to add is that when you look at a rainbow from afar it looks like it has 3 colors, red, yellow and red. This is very significant as most of the Ethiopian rulers were Orthodox Christian and the rainbow is an important symbol of God's favor.

Fun fact: Rwanda (Another African country) use to also use the same Pan-African colours on their flag right up until 2001.

Great video (as always). Just one thing, at 4:38, "ethiopic language" is actually called Amharic, better to say that I think

Great video.

Wow, this is entertaining and interesting! 👏

Togo's flag is quite exclusive; the placement of the horizontal green stripes and the square with the star in the centre at the top left are both very unique. However, the flag of the Republic of Congo is much more conventional and has a much nicer, cleaner appearance.

I really like the flat of Congo. Very classy!! Great video, and so helpful to help understand the logic of flag choices in this area of Africa. Again, thank you for creating such interesting and helpful videos.

nice job

South American Flags. There are the flags of countries liberated by Simon Bolivar, and there are the countries liberated by Jose de San Martin.

@General Knowledge 2:14 Hey there, Mauritania was a French colony and Western Sahara was a Spanish colony. I think there's an error.

Are you planning on doing another video on Ecuador, Venezuela, and Columbia's flags?

2:14 Maurintania wasn't a spanish colony, but Occidental Sahara was.

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can you make a video about the Balts? the last remaining ones being Lithuanians and Latvians that still have their own country intact

Hello, very interesting. Why did you not include The Gambia when you did include Chad?

In my mind the Pan-African colors are red, yellow, green, and black.... Anyways anyone else notice how most French flags use red, yellow, blue, and white? Not only in France itself but also places like New Orleans, Acadiana, and Acadia.

Is there going to be another contest to design flags? We want another one and I have some really good ideas.

Can you make a video about the countries that divided into two

The map you showed mixed up Mauritania as a Spanish colony and Western Sahara as a French one. It was the other way around.

You are the guy that does the mini brands too??

Cape Verde is one of my favorite African countries flags.

🎶🎵They never got Ethiopia 🎶🎵🎶

Next: Scandinavians/nordic countries flag...?

Can you please talk about the old flag of Sudan and Gabon and Rwanda

I don’t understand why you count a change from green to blue as still counting but a change from yellow to white as not counting.

Hello there

If the topic is flags that are similar to each other, then it's only a matter of time until we see a video about all the flags with our well-known Nordic cross both existing, fan-made and possibly coming in the future.

Fun fact: The Helvetic Republic, a French puppet state in Switzerland that existed from 1798 to 1803 during the Napoleonic era, had a similar flag: a green - red - yellow horizontal tricolor.

ETHIOPIA 💪🇪🇹✊IS NOWHERE NEAR WEST AFRICA ❤🎉💪👈🇪🇹🇪🇹🎉🎉🇪🇹👈✊✊✊✊💪💪

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ልምላሜ ፡ ሐብት ፡ 🟨🟨🟨🦁🟨🟨🟨 ተስፋ ፡ እኩልነት ፡ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 መስዋዕትነት ፡ ጀግንነት ።

Could you talk about Ukr being west-east divided? for example. election results in 2004 and 2010

Do a video covering the African flags that have no red! They're few and far between, but they *are* interesting!

Super interesting as always. What flag was used by the union of Senegal and Gambia when they called themselves Senegambia?

Why is Mauritania not included? Its also Red green and yellow

Thank you 🙏 green stands for wealth,health…yellow stands for religion,believe…red stands for war defending land…👍🎥👏👏👏

2:12 Why does the map have Mauritania as spanish and Sahrawi as french?!?!?! And also cameroon and togo were much bigger

lithuania is definitely a west african country

What about Mauritania is a Pan African flag as well look it up also added the red recently

Make a video of why all the western flags are the same.

We're getting one for every continent 👍

Modern Ethiopia was before "Abyssania"

Chad? Thought theirs looked like Romania?

As a Somali, this angers me to an insane degree

Benin could have such an epic and unique flag with that elephant, but sadly no.

Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea aren't in west Africa but in central Africa

The Kingdom of The Homie is the coolest

I remember when there was 1 view

Flags are Love, Flags are Life

A little back story of the "Pan African" Movement, Pan Africanism wasnt a movement created in africa, it was created in the late 1800s by black americans and carribeans mostly black americans in the united states, the pan africanism colours is mostly used more by the black diaspora.

I think the reason why these countries have similar flags is because of their culture.

RBG= Red Black Green Pan African Flag by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1921 UNIA

Why isn't Mauritania included?

Inspired by ethiopia because Ethiopia was only free african country

I don't like to upset anyone, but I think a flag must be unique and simple. You need to look at a flag and say: - ok! It's that one. I can't take a quick look at these African countries and tell: it's Ghana or it's Cameroon. The same I say to Central American countries and Middle East countries as well. If I were an African ruler, I would ask my historians to study the origins of the country to look for other colors and symbols. And also let the citizens to decide.

A great majority of African flags that use the red gold green colour scheme are French.

Bolivian flag came first before Ethiopias flag ,inspired by the end colors of the rainbow

You left out Mauritania

I think the title should be "history of west African flag". The word "why" in the title is misguiding

Some of the best flags are west African.

burkina faso really wanted to be a german colony

Mauritania wasnt spanish

Only chad countries use these colors

The flag of Chad to the Pan-African flag is like the Bulgarian flag to the Pan-Slavic ones: Just switch blue with green

You forgot france,an African country but without the pan African colors

Ahh West Africa or should I say Reggae countries.

Sorry but Chad flag simply isn't Pan African.

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Disliked for going alphabetically. You're supposed to do Ghana after Ethiopia. Ghana is what influenced the other countries directly not ethiopia. Ghana was influenced by Ethiopia.

East African Flags: Why are they all so similar?

Red for the blood of those who fought for the freedom Anyone getting this refrence?

Ghana flag 🇬🇭 is the real pan African.

France

Because they are all Bob Marley

Ethiopia is the exact opposite.

Cameroon is not west Africa.

Comori and C.A.R. have very similar flags and you put C.A.R to are panafrican and Comors not panafrican also zimbabve use panafrican colors only with multiple stripes patern,,i only consider to panafrican flags trecolor patern flags ,only togo flag look panafrican even they have multiple stripes, panafrican colors are red,yelow,green,and black,,,paneuropean colors are blue,red,White,,,,,panarab colors are green,black,red,white,,pan east asian and southeastasian colors are blue and red with minor add of yelow and white elements,,panturkic colors are light blue and red ,comunist flags are red and yelow flag with red or yelow star,,islamic flags have cresent and star and green color,,most countries who share similar culture have similar flags,every flag have deep cultural and simbolic conection ,for example flag of montenegro use red field conecting to albanian flag cause most montenegrins are albanians who adopted serbian language, also use golden twoheded bird with open wings conecting montenegro with russian golden bird also with bizantin golden bird also with albanian black bird also with serbian white bird but serbian bird have close wings so montenegrin bird by opening wings flaying towords albania and russia far from serbia also montenegrin bird have shield with veneto lion conecting montenegro with veneto and italy,in past montenegrin bird was white like serbian bird but is changed to gold like russian in past montenegrin flag was treecolor like serbian red blue and white only with lighter blue to shade diference betwen serbian and montenegrin flag,similar to diferent betwen holand and looxemburg, now flag is red like albanians flag,montenegro by changing flag color and bird color worked on deserbification of montenegro,,similar afilations show most flags in world with elements of flag and changing flags,every country when choose flag wants to with flag show political and historic conections with another countries who used similar flag before ,kosovo used same patern like bosnia yelow map with White stars on blue background ,yelow map on blue back ground simbolized european union flag and white stars on blue back ground simbolized american flag element,bosnia and kosovo using that elemente thanking for liberation from serbia to U.S.A and E.U. ,,romania,andora,moldiva,tchad,use french flag with yelow iner showing cultural afilations to france ,,

Togo is the best🩷

ኢትዮጵያ ለዘላለም ትኑር ኢትዮጵያ

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First and all, Everything you said about Cameroon 🇨🇲 is 80% wrong. I think you were not genuine about Cameroon or you have knowledge deficiency about Cameroon

I think Togo has one of the better African flags personally

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 የዳግማዊ ፡ ምኒልክ ፡ 🟨🟨🟨ም 🟨🟨🟨 ዘመነ ፡ መንግሥት ፡ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 ሰንደቅ ፡ ዓላማ።

All are the same also they have civil unrest ! Unsafe places to travel

Lack of creativity

Ethiopia is nowhere near west Africa.

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