Interesting facts about National flags of different countries

Interesting facts about National flags of different countries:

Here are some unusual and interesting facts about flags

1) The first Olympic flag went missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until a 1920 olympian revealed he’d had it in his suitcase the whole time.

2) During truce talks between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This went on until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.

3) Lichtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.

4) In Denmark, it is illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag. Denmark’s flag is the oldest flag currently in use, designed in 1219 and unchanged since.

5) The flags of Australia and New Zealand are so similar, the Prime Minister of Australia was greeted with the flag of New Zealand on a state visit to Canada in 1984.

Australian flag

New zealand flag

6) The flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 on it.

7) The large yellow star on China’s flag represents the leadership of the Communist Party. The smaller four stars represent economic classes: peasants, workers, petty bourgeoisie, and patriotic capitalists.

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