Heligoland Island belonged to Denmark from 1773 to 1814, to Great Britain from 1814, to the German Empire from 1890 and since 1952 to the Federal Republic of Germany. Its flag – which can also be ordered on this page – shows three horizontal stripes in green, red and white.
The colours have their roots in the crest of the island
The government of the colony of the British Leeward Islands used a British Blue Ensign with the colony’s insignia in the flying end.
To this day, the Leeward Islands have their own joint
The flag of New Jersey is a plain leather-coloured bunting with the state’s coat of arms in the centre.
The correct flag would have been the „Grand Union“
The flag of Florida is a white bunting with a red diagonal cross and the country’s seal in the middle.
Florida did not have an official flag until it joined
Ontario is a province of Canada. The flag is solid red with the Union Jack in the upper corner and shows the provincial coat of arms in the flying end.
This may have been due to the fact that Ontario was
Extremadura is an autonomous region of Spain. The flag shows three horizontal stripes in green, white and black, and the Coat of Arms of Landes in the middle of the white stripe.
should represent one of the famous oak trees, which have
The area of present-day Karelia has belonged to Russia again since 1721. The flag shows three horizontal stripes in red, blue and green.
1937 fell victim the Finnish language, which had have
Fiume (Rijeka) was a free state between 1920 and 1924. The flag showed three stripes in red, yellow and blue.
The colours have their roots ostensibly in the coat
Kazakhstan is a state in Central Asia. The flag is a plain light blue with a vertical golden ornamental band near the flagpole and shows a golden sun in the centre and a flying golden eagle below.
name derives from the Kazakhs, a Turkic people who have
Okinawa is a prefecture belonging to Japan, an archipelago with own cultural and historical features. The flag of the prefecture is plain white with a central pictogram made up of concentric red circles.
The prefecture is said to have tried to adopt the blue
