1. India
   Japan
2. Iran
   Colombia

The Waldorf Astoria New York, which often flies flags from different countries outside its hotel, once raised an Armenian flag upside down, mistaking it for the flag of Colombia. The Armenian flag has a narrow strip of orange, while Colombia's flag displays a wider yellow strip.

1. Tanzania
   Ethiopia
2. Turkey
   Kenya

In 2012, an Iranian oil-tanker company posted Tanzanian flags on some of its shipping vessels in response to restrictions imposed on the Middle Eastern nation. The company changed its name before re-flagging massive petroleum carriers that contained two million barrels of crude.

1. Myanmar
   Thailand
2. Ukraine
   Tanzania

Ukraine legislation designates its country's flag's yellow and blue colors to symbolize the nation's sovereign status. Ukrainians have used the word "khorugv," or "religious banner," to refer to its flag since the 14th century.

1. France
   Ethiopia
2. Iran
   South Sudan

In recognition of South Sudan's July 9, 2011 independence, the African Union raised the nation's flag at its Addis Abada headquarters in August of the same year. South Sudan became the union's 54th member state when the United Nations recognized the nation's sovereign status on July 15, 2011.

1. Mexico
   Italy
2. Thailand
   Spain

"Sbandieratori" is the name for flag wavers in Italy. The specialized Italian national practice of flag-waving started in the 12th century to signal the Italian army during the country's battles. These days, the flag-waving tradition is reserved for festivals.

1. Canada
   Algeria
2. South Africa
   Colombia

Prior to 1994, the flag of South Africa included smaller flags that symbolized the former Orange Free State Afrikaner republic, the old Transvaal Republic and the British flag. In 1994, South Africa ended its apartheid system of rule.

1. Iran
   Argentina
2. Uganda
   New Zealand

Iran's first-ever female flag-bearer proudly displayed her country's flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Olympic archer Zahra Nemati of Iran was tasked with the honor at the game's opening ceremonies.

1. United Kingdom
   Turkey
2. Poland
   Saudi Arabia

Turkey's national flag is prominently displayed at some point along the Bosphorus, which is a narrow waterway that connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea in northwest Turkey. It's been estimated that at least one ship donning a foreign flag sails through the strait every seven minutes.

1. Mongolia
   Russia
2. Uganda
   Tanzania

Peter the Great originally designed Russia's white-red-and-blue flag that replaced the Kremlin's former flag, which displayed hammer-and-sickle symbolism. The Russian czar adored the Dutch and his flag design imitates the red-white-and-blue palette of the Dutch flag.

1. Algeria
   Argentina
2. Poland
   Mexico

Lt. Zapadodes Jose Torres captured the Texas flag when 3,000 Mexican soldiers charged the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Ever since, Texans have sought to reclaim from Mexico's guarded possession the flag, which reads "First Company of Texan Volunteers from New Orleans."

1. Kenya
   South Korea
2. Ethiopia
   Italy

In September 2018, a riot erupted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when Ethnic Oromo members and supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) clashed with young citizens of the city. Ethnic Oromo members had attempted to replace the Ethiopian flag with the OLF flag in several sections of the city.

1. Ukraine
   Egypt
2. Canada
   New Zealand

A fake image of the pyramid's of Egypt covered with Saudi Arabia's flag went viral across the web in November 2018. Shared mainly across Arabic media networks, the doctored image emerged during the November 26 Cairo visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

1. Poland
   South Sudan
2. Thailand
   Colombia

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Thailand's "tricolor flag," Thailand Post issued a series of distinctive postage stamps. The 2017 series explores the transformation and history of Thailand's flag through years past.

1. United States
   United Kingdom
2. Poland
   France

Throughout history, many countries and colonies have raised the flag of the United Kingdom, also called Union Jack. Canada, Australia and South Africa are just a few countries that, at one point, either included the Union Jack in their own flags or displayed the flag as the country's own.

1. New Zealand
   Portugal
2. Hungary
   Spain

Former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key invested $17 million to facilitate a design competition for and referendum on selecting a new nation flag. However in 2016, 57 percent of the country's voters chose to keep the old flag.

1. Germany
   Indonesia
2. Nigeria
   Canada

It wasn't until 1965 that Canada chose the iconic red maple leaf to symbolize the North American nation. Before that time, the once-British-ruled territory did not relinquish England's flag even after the sovereignty declared independence in 1931.

1. China
   Russia
2. Ethiopia
   Iran

China's flag has evolved greatly, from displaying the yellow dragon of the Qing Dynasty to the red insignia of the Communist Party. The five stars on the country's current flag represent China's people.

1. Egypt
   United States
2. Thailand
   Pakistan

Stars were added to the United States flag as states were admitted to the Union. The thirteen stripes of the flag, nicknamed "The Stars and Stripes," represent the original thirteen British colonies.

1. Bangladesh
   Mexico
2. Portugal
   Japan

Portugal changed its flag's all-white background to that of red and green when the nation's monarchy dissolved in the 20th century. The First Republic of Portugal began in 1910 after the monarchy was overthrown.

1. Mongolia
   Vietnam
2. Brazil
   China

Mongolia's maritime law took effect in 1999 after the fall of Communism in the country in 1990. The landlocked country opened the Mongolia Ship Registry in February 2003, and soon after over 260 ships at sea fly the nation's Soyombo flag.

1. Indonesia
   United States
2. Nigeria
   Hungary

At the funeral of Hungarian Count Lajos Battyany, 16 burghers carried flags with ceremonious symbols for the country, the city of Pest and the family of Battyany. Colors of Hungary's flags have almost consistently been red, white and green, symbolizing strength, fidelity and hope, respectively.

1. Iraq
   India
2. Vietnam
   Germany

In 2006, Kurdistan President Mas'ud Barzani decided to prohibit the Iraqi flag from flying in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. The Iraqi cabinet promptly issued a statement, responding that the "current Iraqi flag is the only flag that should be raised on every inch of the land of Iraq..."

1. Mexico
   Colombia
2. Poland
   Ukraine

Poland raised its flags in commemorative honor of Polish Pope John Paul II who died in 2005. A 2006 ceremony in the region of Lagiewniki, featured a vigil and homily delivered by the deceased pope's secretary Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz.

1. South Korea
   Spain
2. Kenya
   Italy

On December 1961, before a crowd of nearly 500 people in the East African town of Malindi, Kenyan leader Ronald Ngala lowered the flag of the Sultan of Zanzibar. The colonial flag had flown over districts that spotted a 10-mile stretch of the East African coast of the Indian Ocean.

1. Algeria
   South Africa
2. Mongolia
   Spain

In symbolic defiance of their government's decision to declare independence from Spain, hundreds of Catalans flooded the streets in downtown Barcelona feverishly waving Spanish flags. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for the firing of Catalonia's regional government in response to the 2017 affair.

1. Peru
   Argentina
2. Colombia
   Morocco

A large monument in the port city of Rosario is the location where Argentine crusader and nation founder Manuel Belgrano lifted the country's sky-blue-and-gold flag for the first time in 1812. Belgrano died June 20, 1820 in Buenos Aires.

1. Algeria
   South Sudan
2. Poland
   Portugal

On October 28, 1962, political activist Abdelaziz Choukeiri climbed the TV and radio building in Algeria, lowered the French flag, and replaced it with the Algerian flag. On November 1, 2013, a Moroccan youth climbed the Algerian consulate in Casablanca and removed the Algerian flag.

1. Iraq
   Turkey
2. Uganda
   Tanzania

During territorial disputes in 2009 at the African Great Lake of Lake Victoria, Ugandan soldiers raised the country's flag over a patch of land within the lake called Migingo Island. The island is 112 miles from Uganda's closest shoreline, while the scrap of land is only 9 miles from Kenya's shores.

1. Algeria
   France
2. Morocco
   United Kingdom

Morocco is a North African country that spans 172,413 square miles and borders the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. The nation's flag includes a green star with five points, known as Solomons seal, in the center of an all-red background.

1. Tanzania
   Italy
2. Germany
   Saudi Arabia

In 2015, anger erupted on social media at Westminster Abbey's decision to fly the flag of Saudi Arabia at half-mast throughout London's Whitehall Road to recognize the passing of King Abdullah. The Middle Eastern country has been criticized for alleged human rights violations.

1. Mexico
   Vietnam
2. South Korea
   Thailand

At the winter Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea in 2018, North and South Korea united when the women's hockey team, with members from both countries, marched under one flag at the game's opening ceremony. Technically, the two countries have been at war since 1950.

1. Italy
   France
2. Philippines
   Kenya

The Boynton Veterans Council in Boynton Beach, Florida conducted a ceremony in which France's Tricolour was raised in a display of solidarity for the country in light of the 2015 Paris attacks. Prior to the raising of the French flag, ceremony attendees sang La Marseillaise.

1. India
   Pakistan
2. Bangladesh
   Brazil

At a meeting of the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947, the national flag of India was adopted. The flag includes a navy-blue wheel with 24 spokes, which is known as the Dhamra Chakra.

1. Spain
   Turkey
2. Indonesia
   Thailand

In August 2016, the Tanjungpura Military Command raised 17,845 flags on the border of Malaysia and Indonesia, at West Kalimantan province, to honor Indonesia's 71st Independence Day. Indonesia won independence on August 17, 1945.

1. Tanzania
   Ethiopia
2. Brazil
   France

In 2010, the original painting of the Brazilian flag was stolen from a church in Rio de Janeiro. Artist Decio Villares rendered the 19th century painting. In 1889, the new republican government adopted the Brazilian flag, which was designed by Miguel Lemos and Raimundo Teixeira Mendes.

1. Nigeria
   Mexico
2. Pakistan
   Turkey

At Pakistan's 70th Independence Day celebration in August 2017, the Pakistan Army Chief raised the largest Pakistan flag that had ever flown in the country at the Attari-Wagah border near the city of Lahore. The flag was positioned 400-feet high and measured 120 feet by 80 feet.

1. France
   Colombia
2. Poland
   Bangladesh

In a 2015 celebration, Bangladesh and India ended decades-long border disputes with the two countries raising their respective flags over newly designated territories. One hundred and eleven small islands were handed to Bangladesh, while fifty-one islands were given to India.

1. New Zealand
   South Sudan
2. Japan
   Saudi Arabia

Japan's propaganda campaign leading to World War II included printed textiles displaying Japanese and Nazi flags, promoting the Axis Powers of the time. The textile messages were subtly incorporated into formal wear designs, like kimonos.

1. Uganda
   Algeria
2. Philippines
   Argentina

The February 1998 Republic Act No. 8491, also known as "Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines" forbids wearing the "flag, seal, coat-of-arms (in whole or in part) as part of a costume or uniform as a fashion accessory or merely as a design element." The code is meant to promote national pride.

1. Vietnam
   Canada
2. Uganda
   Italy

In 2003, the city of Garden Grove prohibited the Vietnam flag from being flown during ceremonies and events in the municipality, which has a large Vietnamese community. Garden Grove followed the lead of the neighboring city of Westminster which had previously banned the Communist flag.