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I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points…
This is not correct. The Swiss flag is officially square not rectangular. The only exception is when it is display on an airplane fuselage otherwise it is supposed to be square.
Off topic, but articles like this are a good case study in whether Google should return articles written for the sole purpose of marketing and SEO or not. It’s quite interesting, and probably useful when you’re researching flags. On the other hand, it’s obvious that the Kobadoo wrote it as “content marketing” ie probably paid someone to write it who has no organic motivation other than that and no particular interest…
https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o... This is not correct. The Swiss flag is officially square not rectangular. The only exception is when it is display on an airplane fuselage otherwise it is supposed to be square.
I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points…
https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o... This is not correct. The Swiss flag is officially square not rectangular. The only exception is when it is display on an airplane fuselage otherwise it is supposed to be square.
A square is in fact a rectangle.
https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o... This is not correct. The Swiss flag is officially square not rectangular. The only exception is when it is display on an airplane fuselage otherwise it is supposed to be square.
A square is in fact a rectangle.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really do love the swallowtail flag. It's instantly recognizable. Few other states have such well-known flags; Texas perhaps with the lone star and California with the bear.
Some other instantly recognizable flags include Alaska (Big Dipper, though it’s hard to see from far away), New Mexico (sun symbol), Arizona (sunrise), South Carolina (palm tree), Tennessee (weird circle with stars), DC (white with 2 red bars + 3 red stars, Washington’s coat of arms), Maryland (nightmare that it is), and Puerto Rico (blue triangle with a star, 5 red/white stripes).