Nonrectangular flags

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Most flags are rectangular, of course. There is only one
nonrectangular national flag and one US state with one. Trivia
question: what are they?

I've been trying to find any other
states/provinces/regions/prefectures/etc. that have one, but
without success. I've been looking through the Flags of the World
site, but because of limited bandwidth, have only looked at a
fraction of the countries' subdivisions. In the process, I found
a number of non-geographic nonrectangular flags: naval ensigns,
war flags, flags of shipping lines, etc. Also, in Slovakia,
cities have swallow-tailed flags and lesser municipalities have
double swallow-tailed flags.

So does anyone know of any other nonrectangular
state/province/etc. flags?

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Dan Tilque

 

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Dan Tilque wrote:

> Most flags are rectangular, of course. There is only one
> nonrectangular national flag and one US state with one. Trivia
> question: what are they?






Something in my brain is telling me "mountain country". Nepal? Bhutan?

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Keith Willoughby (keith@flat222.org) writes:
> Dan Tilque wrote:
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>> Most flags are rectangular, of course. There is only one
>> nonrectangular national flag and one US state with one. Trivia
>> question: what are they?
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> Something in my brain is telling me "mountain country". Nepal? Bhutan?

The national one is Nepal. The US state I don't have a clue.



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Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Keith Willoughby (keith@flat222.org) writes:
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>>Dan Tilque wrote:
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>>>Most flags are rectangular, of course. There is only one
>>>nonrectangular national flag and one US state with one. Trivia
>>>question: what are they?
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>>Something in my brain is telling me "mountain country". Nepal? Bhutan?
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> The national one is Nepal. The US state I don't have a clue.

Ohio

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In the strictest sense of the word I would also say Switzerland has a
nonrectangular flag. For me a rectangle has two pairs of sides of different
length (although I am aware that the square can be considered to be a
special case of the rectangle)
"Joe Strickland" <jrstrickland@ma.rr.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> > Keith Willoughby (keith@flat222.org) writes:
> >
> >>Dan Tilque wrote:
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> >>>Most flags are rectangular, of course. There is only one
> >>>nonrectangular national flag and one US state with one. Trivia
> >>>question: what are they?
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> >>Something in my brain is telling me "mountain country". Nepal? Bhutan?
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> > The national one is Nepal. The US state I don't have a clue.
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> Ohio
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Torsten Pihl wrote:

> In the strictest sense of the word I would also say
> Switzerland has a nonrectangular flag. For me a rectangle has
> two pairs of sides of different length (although I am aware
> that the square can be considered to be a special case of the
> rectangle)

Well, I meant the term rectangle to mean "a quadrilateral with
all four angles being right angles". Squares then are a subset of
rectangles. What I was looking for in this question is flags that
are pennants (triangular), swallowtailed, or something like that.

One curious thing I noticed when looking for non-rectangular
flags is that all the cantons of Switzerland (at least those that
have official flags) also have square flags.

ObTrivia: Besides Switzerland, what other national flag is
square?

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Dan Tilque wrote:
> Torsten Pihl wrote:
>
>
>>In the strictest sense of the word I would also say
>>Switzerland has a nonrectangular flag. For me a rectangle has
>>two pairs of sides of different length (although I am aware
>>that the square can be considered to be a special case of the
>>rectangle)
>
> Well, I meant the term rectangle to mean "a quadrilateral with
> all four angles being right angles". Squares then are a subset of
> rectangles. What I was looking for in this question is flags that
> are pennants (triangular), swallowtailed, or something like that.
>
> One curious thing I noticed when looking for non-rectangular
> flags is that all the cantons of Switzerland (at least those that
> have official flags) also have square flags.
>
> ObTrivia: Besides Switzerland, what other national flag is
> square?

Good question, which country's flag is the least square? That is,
the greatest ratio of width to height?

--Jeff

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Jeffrey Turner wrote:

> Dan Tilque wrote:
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>> ObTrivia: Besides Switzerland, what other national flag is
>> square?
>
> Good question,

Which, I notice, you didn't answer...

>which country's flag is the least square?
> That is, the greatest ratio of width to height?

That's hard to say, since some flags do not have ratios
officially specified. According to FotW, the often cited 10:19
ratio for the US flag is not official. It's used in some
instances, but flags used officially have several different
ratios: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-size.html .
Australia is another flag without an official ratio.

That having been said, the USSR's flag was notably long for its
height. FotW does not give a ratio, but I think it was 1:3. Most
national flags are 1:2, 2:3 or 3:5, although there are a number
of exceptions. Hunting around on the FotW site, I couldn't find
any current flag with a ratio greater than 1:2, but I didn't
check even the majority of countries.

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Dan Tilque wrote:
> Jeffrey Turner wrote:
>>Dan Tilque wrote:
>>
>>>ObTrivia: Besides Switzerland, what other national flag is
>>>square?
>>
>>Good question,
>
> Which, I notice, you didn't answer...

I didn't know, but I looked it up. Which is larger, the country or
its flag?

>>which country's flag is the least square?
>>That is, the greatest ratio of width to height?
>
> That's hard to say, since some flags do not have ratios
> officially specified. According to FotW, the often cited 10:19
> ratio for the US flag is not official. It's used in some
> instances, but flags used officially have several different
> ratios: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-size.html .
> Australia is another flag without an official ratio.
>
> That having been said, the USSR's flag was notably long for its
> height. FotW does not give a ratio, but I think it was 1:3. Most
> national flags are 1:2, 2:3 or 3:5, although there are a number
> of exceptions. Hunting around on the FotW site, I couldn't find
> any current flag with a ratio greater than 1:2, but I didn't
> check even the majority of countries.

I eyeballed a bunch that were in my atlas, and checked Timor L'este on
FOTW. AFAICT, the most oblong is Qatar at 11:29, IIRC. TL has a
lovely flag, a _lot_ nicer than the two-minute-cut-and-paste which the
US is trying to foist off on Iraq.

--Jeff

--
Loyalty to the country always, loyalty
to the government when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain

Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum.
We're marching for freedom today-ay!
So turn on your headlights
and sound your horn,
if people get in the way. --M. Python