The national flag is also divided into factions: Why are many national flags very similar?
Have you found a problem: there are many national flags very similar. What causes this? After reading this article, you will understand.
If you have children at home, you can collect it for easy geography learning.
Pan-Slavic system
1848 at the Slavic Conference held in Prague , blue, white and red were confirmed as the unified colors of Slavic, and Slavs began to choose these colors as their symbols.
British system
During the colonial period, every British colony placed the British "-meter-shaped flag " and its variants on its own national flag.
Australia and New Zealand Although they have long been truly independent countries and are members of United Nations , they continue to use the British flag as part of their own flag.
Interestingly, the Tuvalu state of the 1990s tried to abandon the British flag model; its own version was developed and approved, but eventually, at the request of the residents, they returned to the pro-British model a few years later.
Scandinavian style
Scandinavian style flag, is a national flag with a cross, the cross is offset to the direction of the flagpole.
According to legend, in 1219, the situation in Denmark was unfavorable in the battle with the pagan Estonians. At this time, a white flag with a white cross printed on it fell from the sky. The Christian army of Denmark's King Waldmar was greatly inspired, cheered up and won the battle.
Kalmar Alliance (late 14th century) unify Denmark, Swedish and Norwegian under the Danish crown. The flags of these countries inherited the cross model of Denmark.
Pan-Arabic system
During the First World War , the Arabs were dissatisfied with the policy of the Ottoman Empire . With the support of the United Kingdom, they advocated that the Arab countries be independent of Istanbul . In 1916, the first "Pan Arabic" flag appeared - a flag composed of black, green and white horizontal stripes, close to the flagpole, with a red triangle.
1952, an officer who opposed the monarchy declared Egypt a republic. Then there was a red, white and black striped national flag. Red symbolizes the blood shed for freedom, white symbolizes the purity of the soul, and black symbolizes the end of the dark age.
This flag is named "The Flag of Arab Liberation". Syria , Iraq, Sudan , north and south Yemen , Libya also adopts almost the same national flag design.
American system
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Some countries, especially the former Spanish colonies in the Americas, have seen opportunities to break free from Spanish rule from the rising United States. So, they are willing to copy the design of the American flag.
The national flag of Malaysia is very similar to the American flag. Their designs are all from the striped flag of the British East India Company.
Pan-African system
19th century, the entire Africa was divided by European powers, and only Ethiopia is an independent country.
The national flag of Ethiopia uses a combination of green, yellow and red.
For African countries that gained independence in the late 1950s and 1960s, Ethiopia was their role model, so they would imitate the color of Ethiopia's flag and express their desire for independence.
The first African country to gain independence after World War II , Ghana, simply copied the Ethiopian flag and added only one asterisk (1957).The same is true for
Cameroon (1957), Guinea (1958), Benin (1958), Mali (1959), Congo (1959), Togo (1960), Guinea-Bissau , Burkina Faso , and a little modification was made based on the Ethiopian flag.
The traditional explanation of color is: red - the blood of the free warrior, yellow - the sun, green - African nature.
Big Colombian system
Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador The current national flag prototype was created by the famous South American revolutionary Francisco Miranda.
The yellow on the flag symbolizes gold, which is rich because of gold, and also leads to Spanish colonization; red represents the Spanish descent of some residents, and blue represents the Atlantic Ocean that separates Spain and America.
This flag is widely known due to the military victory of Simon Bolivar . It also became the flag of the independent Republic of Venezuela (1811) and then the flag of the "Big Colombia" led by Bolivar .
Later, the Greater Colombian Republic split into today's Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama, but the three countries still retained the flags of Miranda and Bolivar.
Central American system
Central American The national flags of all countries are based on the blue, white and blue flags of the "Federal Republic of Central America" that existed in the first half of the 19th century.
Currently, the five stars on the national flag of Honduras are exactly the symbol of the five provinces of the "Federal Republic of Central America" - Honduras, El Salvador , Costa Rica , Guatemala and Nicaragua .
The national flag is derived from the French colonist Louis Michelle Ory.
1820 When a fleet led by Ori attacked the Spanish-occupied port of Trujillo, his ship raised a flag with two blue and one white stripes.
White: symbolizes a thin piece of land - Central America; 2 blue stripes: symbolizes being between two oceans. After
, the five provinces became independent countries, and all adopted blue, white and blue flags, with slight differences.
It is generally believed that the prototype of the Louis Michel Ori flag is the flag of the "United Province of Rio de Janeiro" (that is, today's Argentina ). Therefore, the Argentina flag also belongs to the Central American system, although its symbolic significance has nothing to do with the Central American isthmus.
