Ugliest national flag around

[Cyranox11]

Originally posted by PeterGustafsson

South Africa: went from a flag with a pale orange (bleh) with three small flags inside it to a combination of several strong colors, contrasting in a bad way. From bad to bad, in another way.

Agreed!
We have a pair of giant Y fronts for a national flag and the colours are gross (though not as gross as the last one imho)...
I have a theory about our (new) flag:
The original SA flag was a combination of the OLD Dutch flag (orange, white and blue stripes), signifying the Dutch colonial past of SA; with the Union Flag (its only a Union Jack if flying from the jack mast of a ship), signifying the British colonial past; and the flags of the two boer republics (Orange Free State and Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek).
With the fall of apartheid, we got a new, far more pleasant (but far from attractive) flag. My theory on this flag is that they superimposed the colours of the flag of the Afrcan National Congress (the liberation organisation largely responsible for the fall of apartheid) over the flag of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (signifying the new order replacing the old, but allowing the people to coexist in a 'rainbow nation')
This has bnever been confirmed or denied, but the colours and shapes used are very similar and I think bares my theory out!
Whats cool is, that fencers fencing for SA get to have their flag made into a styilised sword (epee or foil) and we wear this on our leg on our non-sword arm side. Its colourful, striking and kinda cool...

[HLM]

(if Mexico's flag can simplify its logo in the centre, it might look good, the logo looks like a jumbled mess, I can't quite decipher what it is, any Mexcicans here?)

Hi, hope it goes well first time I write in here. Well is actually not a logo, may be look like that depending of the quality of the flag you are looking at but in an official flag it must be very clear. It is an eagle in top of a cactus, eating a snake and at the bottom branches of olive and laurel. It comes from the legend of the foundation of Tenochtitlan by the Aztecs. According to the legend they were to found the new city when they found an eagle eating a snake, so they did in the middle of a lake where Mexico City is today. The original is really beautifull, threaded in gold and all that. It has evolved quite a lot from the second half of the 1800's and the old ones were never as good as the actual one.

[JAySE SUiCiDE]

i think my favourite flag is the scottish one; its not on that site, but its got a big lion in the middle

and the flag of Niue is pretty bad. i mean, come on..bright yellow?!?

~Jes

[dreadfoily]

The hammer and Scycle is pretty bad. I just took a look at all the national flags and many of them were pure hell.

[Corazo]

I think japan's flag is good. Simplicity is a great thing, and the circle is perhaps the strongest shape you can use to put in the center of the flag.

[C.J.]

Even though I don't think very highly of Canada in any particular way, I absolutely love its flag!! The maple leaf on it is like saying nature, the land, and all of its resources are more important than any stripes and/or stars; there isn't any implication of politics or self-righteousness(of course the truth may be far from that). Even the maple leaf itself is completely innocent -- there is no meaning behind its 11 points, it just happened to be that way. I feel even Greenpeace's flag pales in comparison. So, in the design itself, I find it to be the best around.

[dreadfoily]

Okay: I liked the following Flags: Nato, Hong Kongs, Cyprus, Japan, Wales.

[Maeve_Mari]

For National Flags--The World's Flags Given Letter Grades

My Favorite:

Libya

"Did you even try?"

For US State Flags--State Flag Ratings

--Philistine

Hard to look at Antiqua and Barbuda and not want to be there watching the same tropical sunset.
It's my pick for best!

http://ahpc-jp30.st-and.ac.uk/~josh/flags/fotw/ag.gif

Of course, using the colors of Miami Vice would have made it more appealing in a Spring Break state of mind.

[D'Artagnan1673]

I love Finland and Israel's flags. I love that combination of blue and white.