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Corrections

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Corrections Log

October 25, 2026

  • Syria flag: the image showed the red, white and black flag used until December 2024. It now shows the current flag, official since 13 March 2025. Also corrected the history: the 1980 flag had two green stars, not three, and the three red stars originally stood for Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez-Zor.
  • Egypt vs Iraq vs Yemen: this comparison covered Syria's red, white and black flag, which Syria replaced in December 2024. It now compares Yemen, whose flag is the plain red, white and black tricolor, and the old address redirects here.
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands flag: the image showed the Australian flag. It now shows the local green flag with the palm tree, crescent and Southern Cross that the page describes.
  • Flags with the Sun: removed India, whose flag carries the Ashoka Chakra, a wheel, not a sun, and stopped calling North Macedonia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan African or Pacific flags.
  • Flags with Stars: removed Taiwan, Uruguay and American Samoa, whose flags show a sun or an eagle, not stars.
  • Flags with Eagles: removed Ecuador, whose flag shows an Andean condor.
  • Flags with Animals: Ecuador's bird is an Andean condor, not a harpy eagle. Also removed a claim attributed to the vexillologist Whitney Smith that we could not source.
  • Horizontal Tricolor Flags: removed flags that are not three bands of three colours: Ukraine, Liberia, Mauritius, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Austria, Argentina, Honduras, Lebanon, and the US flag used for the Minor Outlying Islands. Also corrected the Dutch flag's history: it began as orange, white and blue, and red replaced orange in the 17th century.
  • Vertical Tricolor Flags: removed Nigeria (two colours), the Republic of the Congo (divided diagonally), Wallis and Futuna, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and noted that Belgium, a kingdom, also flies a vertical tricolour.
  • Red, White and Blue Flags: removed Greece, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, whose flags are blue and white.
  • Flags with a Coat of Arms: removed eight flags that show no coat of arms (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Vanuatu, Kenya, Eswatini, Eritrea, Mozambique, and Mayotte, which we show as the French tricolour) and took Uruguay off the list of examples.
  • Pan-African Color Flags: Ethiopia was under Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941, so it was not the only African state to stay independent. The red, black and green of Marcus Garvey's movement are now described separately from Ethiopia's green, yellow and red.
  • Flags with the Southern Cross: Brazil's flag was adopted on 19 November 1889, four days after the republic was proclaimed, and its stars show the sky on the morning of 15 November, not at night.

October 24, 2026

  • Tuvalu flag: the original 1978 flag was restored on 11 April 1997 after a 1995 redesign, not re-adopted on 4 April 1991.
  • New Zealand vs Australia vs Fiji vs Tuvalu: added Tuvalu's flag, history and colours, which the page named but did not show; fixed Fiji's light blue colour code; and replaced an unsupported claim about a flag mix-up at the Sydney 2000 Olympics with a documented one from Canberra in 2026.
  • Poland vs Indonesia vs Monaco: replaced an unsupported claim about Polish flags hung upside down at the 1992 Olympics with a documented mix-up from the 2017 Southeast Asian Games.
  • Italy vs Mexico: removed an unsupported claim that Mexico's flag was shown as Italy's at an international summit, and corrected which way the eagle faces: toward the green stripe at the pole, not right.
  • China vs Vietnam: removed an unsupported claim that Vietnam's flag was shown upside down at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, noted that the flag's authorship is disputed, and corrected its adoption dates (a decree of 5 September 1945, and 1976 for unified Vietnam), which the page had tied to 2 September and 1975.
  • Morocco vs Vietnam: noted that the Vietnamese flag's authorship is disputed, removed an unverified age for Nguyễn Hữu Tiến, and corrected the flag's adoption dates (5 September 1945, and 1976 for unified Vietnam).
  • Ireland vs Ivory Coast: replaced an unsupported claim about a flag mix-up at the 2016 Olympics with a documented one from the 2018 World Indoor Championships.
  • Åland Islands flag: removed an internal research note that had been published in the symbolism section by mistake.

September 27, 2026

  • Antarctica flag: the white-map design dates from 1996 (Graham Bartram), not 2002. Added the True South flag.
  • Puerto Rico flag: removed protocol text that described Philippine flag law, dated the Gag Law ban to 1948 to 1957, and corrected the official adoption date to 24 July 1952.
  • Cuba vs Puerto Rico: the ban on displaying Puerto Rico's flag ran from 1948 to 1957 under Law 53, not from 1898 to 1952.
  • Dominican Republic flag: corrected the layout of the blue and red quarters and explained how the 1844 and 1863 versions differ.
  • Belgium vs Germany: separated the 1933 ban on black-red-gold from the 1935 switch to the swastika flag.

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