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Flag of Sweden Ratio: 5:8 (like the other Noridc flag, it has an unusual aspect ratio) Adopted: Around th early 16th century. Current shade of blue adopted on 22 June 1906 Part 1 Rule 1: Nordic flags are simple. Rule 2: According to legend [citation needed]: However, it is most likely that...

Flag of Swaziland Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 6 October 1968. Part 1 Rule 1: I think the shield is simple enough for a child to draw (though not perfectly, I don't think they could memorize the exact number of lines), but I don't think they could draw the feathers. Rule 2: In the early 18th...

Flag of Suriname Ratio: 2:3 Adopted: 25 November 1975 (Surinamese independence) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this flag from memory. Rule 2: Suriname began to be inhabited around 3000 BC. The largest tribes were the Caribs and Arawaks in the coast and savanna, while there were other tribes...

Flag of Sudan Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 20 May 1970 Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag. A child could draw it from memory. Rule 2: In the 1820s, Sudan began being conquered by Egypt under Muhammad Ali Pasha (officially, Muhammad Ali was just an Ottoman governor, but in fact he was the khedive...

Flag of Sri Lanka Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 2 March 1951 (current version adopted on 22 May 1972) Part 1 Rule 1: A child cannot draw the lion. It's pretty complex. Rule 2: According to legend, Vijaya, the legendary first king of Sri Lanka, came to the islands from India in 543 BC, and...

Flag of Spain Civil flag Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 1785 at sea, 1843 on land. Current version adopted on 19 January 1981 Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw the simple civil ensign from memory, but not the state flag, with its rather complex coat of arms. Rule 2: Rule 3: Not counting the...

Flag of South Sudan Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 9 July 2005 Part 1 Rule 1: A child can draw this flag from memory. I don't think this flag is very complex. Rule 2: The are was at first dominated by speakers of a Central Sudanic language. Speakers of Nilotic langauges began to dominate ariund...

Flag of South Korea (The Taegukgi, Taeguk flag) Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 27 January 1883 by the Korean Empire, 15 October 1949 by South Korea. Current version adopted in October 1997. Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw the taeguk (the central emblem), but they may not memorize the pattern of...

Flag of South Africa Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 27 April 1994 Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw the flag from memory, I think. The flag isn't too complex. Rule 2: In 1488, when the Portuguese explorer discovered the Cape of Good Hope, the dominant ethnic in what is now South Africa were the...

Flag of Somalia Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 26 June 1960 (in British Somaliland), 1 October 1960 (in Somalia). Part 1 Rule 1: A child coul draw a star from memory. Rule 2: Somalia was not colonized by one, but rather by two European coountries. The country's east was gained by Italy in 1889...

Flag of the Solomon Islands Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 18 November 1977 Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag, which a child could draw from memory. Rule 2: It is believed speakers of Papuan langauges came to the islands around 30,000 years ago. Austronesian-language speakers came around 4000 BC...

Flag of Slovenia Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 25 June 1991 (Slovene independence) Part 1 Rule 1: The coat of arms is pretty simple, but not much space is given to it, so I don't know if a child could draw it from memory. Rule 2: The first Slavs came to the Alps around the the century. In 658...

Flag of Slovakia Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 3 September 1992 Part 1 Rule 1: I think the coat of arms is simple enough for a child to draw from memory if the child is given enough space to draw it. Rule 2: Around the 8th century, the Principality of Nitra was founded around Nitra, in what is...

Flag of Singapore Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 3 December 1959. Readopted on 9 August 1965. Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw the stars and crescent from memory. Rule 2: The Malay Kingdom of Singapura was established on the island in 1299. The island became a trading post, before being sacked...

Flag of Sierra Leone Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 27 April 1961 Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple tricolor. Rule 2: The first Europeans to come to the area were the Portuguese explorers in 1462. One of the explorers, Pedro de Sintra, named the mountains in the region Serra Leoa (Lioness Mountains)...

Flag of Seychelles Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 18 June 1996 Part 1 Rule 1: I think a child could draw the flag from memory. The mistake they're most likely to make is getting the colors wrong, I think. Rule 2: The islands may have been visisted by Austronesians, Maldivians, and Arabs, but they...

Wow, I fucked up my tags last update. It's all fixed now, though. . Flag of Serbia Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 17 August 2004 (current version adopted on 11 November 2010) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the eagle or the crown from memor.y. Rule 2: In the year 1217, Stefan Nemanjić...

I actually prefer New Mexico's (but Arizona's is still pretty good). And honestly, I don't want to do US states, they're mostly terrible seals on a bedsheet. There are bad country flags, but they're mostly not as bad as the worst US country flags (which themeselves aren't as bad as Liberian...

Flag of Saudi Arabia Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 1932 (current version adopted on 15 March 1973) Part 1 Rule 1: I guess a child could if they knew how to write Arabic script. The children that can't do that, could not draw this flag from memory. Rule 2: In the year 1744 Muhammad bin Saud...

I've wrtten about a lot of tiny countries recently. The country after this one definitely isn't tiny, though. Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: Either 12 July 1975 (the country's independene date) or 5 Novembeer 1975. Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this flag from...

Flag of San Marino Ratio: 3:4 (an unusual ratio that makes the flag not much wider than it is tall) Adopted: 6 April 1862 (current coat of arms adopted in 2011) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the complex coat of arms from memory. Rule 2: In the year 301, according to legend, Saint...

Flag of Samoa Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 26 May 1948 (fifth star added on 24 February 1949) Part 1 Rule 1: I think a child could draw the Southern Cross from memory. Rule 2: The first inhabitants of the islands came to them about 3,000 years ago. They may have spoken a language in the...

Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ratio: 2:3 (though some say it has a 7:11 ratio. The flag in this post has a 2:3 ratio). Adopted: 21 October 1985 Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw diamonds from memory. Rule 2: The islands were discovered by European in the late 15th or early 16th...

Flag of Saint Lucia Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 1 March 1967 (current version adopted in 2002) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw triangles from memory. Rule 2: After the island was discovred by Europeans (late 15th or early 16th centuries), the English (later British) began fighting over it a...

Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 19 September 1983 (independence of the country) Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag. A child could draw it from memory. Rule 2: The island have been inhabited since around 2900 BC. The first Europeans to discover the islands were...

Flag of Rwanda Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 25 October 2001 Part 1 Rule 1: A child may not be able to draw the exact number of rays in the sun, but as I have written many times, recognizabilty is more important than perfection. Rule 2: In the 11th century, a kingdom was founded in Rwanda. Its...

Flag of Russia Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 11 May 1696 at sea, 7 May 1883. Readopted on 22 August 1991. Current shade of blue and ratio adopted on 11 December 1993. Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple tricolor. Rule 2: There has been at least one state in what is now Russia since around the 7th...

Flag of Romania Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 26 June 1848 (readopted on 24 April 1867 and 27 December 1989) Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple tricolor. Rule 2: In the Middle Ages there were two principalities in what is now Romania: Wallachia and Moldavia (some of its territory what in what is now...

Flag of Qatar Ratio: 11:28 (an unusual ratio that makes Qatar have the only current flag of a sovereign state to be more than twice as wide as it is tall) Adopted: 9 July 1971 (less than a year before Qatar became independent on 3 September 1971) Part 1 Rule 1: I think child could draw this...

I like polandball is drawn upside down on purpose (I believe it was by the creator of the comic in krautchan to piss off poles). Makes from some good comics. I like most polandball comics, This is my favorite one. By the way, a Polandball comic about Portugal. Flag of Portugal Ratio: 2:3...

Flag of Poland State flag Ratio: 5:8 (an unusual ratio shared by Argentina, Guatemala, Palau, and Sweden) Adopted: 1 August 1919. Current shade of red adopted in 1980. Part 1 Rule 1: This flag is a simple bicolor. Rule 2: The first Polis state originates in the 9th century. It was a duchy...

Flag of the Philippines Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 12 June 1898 (readopted in 1920 and 1943. Current shade of blue established on 11 June 1998) Part 1 Rule 1: A child may not be able to draw the sun from memory, but recognizability is more important than perfection. Rule 2: The Philippines...

Flag of Peru State Flag Civil Flag Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 25 February 1825. (current civil enign adopted in 1950) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could nort draw the complex state flag from memory, but they could draw the civil ensign, which is a simple triband. Rule 2: There is no evidence that...

Flag of Paraguay Obverse side. Reverse side. Ratio: 11:20 (an odd ratio, which no other national flag shares). Adopted: 25 November 1842 (current version adopted on 15 Julio 1823). Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the flag from memory. It has text in a small space, and the reverse side...

Flag of Papua New Guinea Ratio: 3:4 (an unusual ratio) Adopted: 1 July 1971 Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the bird from memory. Rule 2: In 1884 the German Empire began colonizing what is now the north of Papua New Guinea, founding the colony of "German New Guinea". That same year, in...

Flag of Panama Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: 3 November 1903. Current version provisonally adopted on 4 June 1904, and officially adopted on 25 Maech 1925. Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draqw this flag from memory (though I've sometimes had trouble memorizing the pattern). Rule 2: Panama, despite...

Flag of Palestine (a UN observer, recognized by 136 UN members) Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 1964 as flag of the Palestinian people. 15 November 1988 as flag of the State of Palestine. Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag. A child coul draw it from memory. Rule 2: First, the meaning of the...

Flag of Palau Ratio: 5:8 (an unusual ratio also used by Argentina, Guatemala, Poland, and Sweden.) Adopted: 1 January 1981 Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this flag from memory, especially if they had a compass. Rule 2: Palau was first inhabited about 3,000 years ago by people who came from...

Most people around me posted once or twice (or never) before disappearing, except for Pantaro. There's also lugidabest, who made 8 posts (none since June) and Ayen, who made 10 posts in 2 days before dissapearing. ThePeachinator is the first user who came after me which I knew about before today.

Flag of Pakistan Ratio: 2:3 Adopted: 11 August 1947 (three days befor Pakistani independence). Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this flag from memory. Rule 2: In 1858 the British Raj, a British crown colony, was created from land which had been ruled by the British East India Company before...

Flag of Oman Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 17 December 1970 (width of stripes changed on 25 April 1995) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the complex emblem on the upper hoist side. Rule 2: From 1650 to 1820 what is now Oman was split between the Sultanate of Muscat, a coastal sultanate...

Flag of Norway Ratio: 8:11 (all Nordic flags have strange ratios from some reason). Adopted: 13 July 1821 (readopted on 15 December 1899) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this flag from memory. Rule 2: After the Treaty of Kalmar was signed in 1397, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway were united under...

Flag of North Korea Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: 8 September 1948 (one day before North Korea was officially established) Part 1 Rule 1: This flag is simple. A child could draw it from memory. Rule 2: After the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910 (which wasn't actually signed by Sujong, Korea's emperor)...

Flag of Nigeria Ratio: 1:2 Adopted: 1 October 1960 (Nigerian indepndence) Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple triband. Rule 2: In 1900 two British protectorates were created in what is now Nigeria: the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. In 1914 the protecorates were...

Flag of Niger (it's pronounced niːˈʒɛər, nee-JHER. And its name from the Niger River, whose name either comes from Niger, which is black in Latin, or from the Tuareg n'eghirren, which means river of rivers) Ratio: Actually not defined. For some reason, it is commonly shown with an unusal 6:7...

Solid liberal, not surprising. Some of the questions really needed more than two answers. I often picked answers that weren't exactly my opinion.

Flag of Nicaragua Ratio: 3:5 (the third most common flag ratio) Adopted: 4 September 1908. (officially adopted on 27 August 1971) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw the flag in the coat of arms from memory. Rule 2: This is alphapbtically the last flag with Central American colors, so for the...

Flag of New Zealand Ratio: 1:2 (normal) Adopted: In use since 1869. Officially adopted on 24 March 1902 Part 1 Rule 1: A child may not be able to draw St. Patrick's Cross in the Union Jack perfectly from memory, especially if the flag is small. Rule 2: New Zealand was one of the last places to...

Flag of the Netherlands Ratio: 2:3 (normal) Adopted: In use since the 16th century. Officially adopted on 19 February 1937. Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple tricolor. Rule 2: The first flag used in what is now the Netherlands is the Cross of Burgundy, used by the lords of Burgundy, which ruled...

Flag of Nepal Ratio: You may think this doesn't apply, but it kinda does. Not counting the blue border, the bounding rectangle has a 4:3 ratio. Counting the border, it has a ratio. Nepal's flag is the only flag to be taller than it is wide. Adopted: 18th or 19th century (current version...