(Based on design)
The flag of a nation, usually you want it to be a strong symbol for your
country, a beautiful and powerful image that your country can rally
behind. Maybe the flag symbolizes important aspects of the country, like
the rising sun of the Japanese flag, or the 50 stars of the American
flag.
Some counties though, well, let's just say they put the bar a little lower.
So, without further distraction, check out the 10 worst flag ideas in the world!
10. Bangladesh
Now this flag could have been a good idea, after all, it is the
beautiful Japanese flag, only with one minor adjustment. Unfortunately,
adjusting the background color to a very unsightly green didn't do much
to elevate this design. And anyways, just ripping off another design and
changing the colors a bit? That works in web design, but when you're
creating a flag for a country, it would be nice to see a little more
effort than a copy and paste.
9. Nepal
We've all done
it, we've sat around with our friends, having a few beers, just shooting
the breeze and coming up with these excellent ideas that would just be
totally craaaaazy! Like, we should pave the streets with money, that way
no one would be poor, and other ideas that are great while drunk, but
mercifully forgotten the next day. True, some times you will find that
some less fortunate ideas and experiments might have broken one of your
limbs, or worse got put on youtube, but in a couple of weeks, that stuff
just fades away and no one will think of it again.
That's what
happened with the Nepal flag, some guys were sitting around, smoking
some opium, and started talking about their flag. "Wouldn't it be
AWESOME if the flag was a triangle instead of a square!" (giggles) "No,
no, wait, what if it was a triangle on top of a triangle!!!". That's
what happened, but for some reason this crazy idea actually became
reality, against all good judgment. To this day, the Nepali flag serves
as a slap in the face, of those poor folks who came up with this idea,
never really meant to survive into sober reality. Not to mention the
hate that Nepal gets from flag makers world wide.
8. Libya
Yeah, I get it, I get what you tried to do here.
Green is the colour of Islam, and the flag represent that there is
nothing above Islam and the flag is a representation of a clean tribute
to your religion. But COME ON! You guys have the chance to do anything
you want with the flag, get creative, put some soul and effort into the
design, and of all the possibilities, the best your country's designers
can come up with is this? A blank green canvas? I truly and honestly
feel, that if a flag like this is the very best you can come up with,
you don't deserve to have your own country. Give the country to someone
else, someone who will at least try.
7. Swaziland
In a
way, I kind of like this flag, if it wasn't a flag, but maybe some
interesting wall art at the World Market, I might quite like it. The
colours go well together and the design is interesting. Unfortunately,
this is not a kitchen towel, but a national flag, and as a national
flag, this is just no good. While I am sure the shield
and spears are traditional and part of Swaziland culture, it just sends
the wrong message having weapons in your flag, not to mention the poor
school children in Swaziland, trying to make an accurate drawing of this
flag for independence must be a nightmare.
6. Christmas Islands
Actually, The Christmas Islands deserve recognition for avoiding some
of the most obvious lichee's that must have been tempting for the
designers if the flag, there's no Santa Claus or Christmas trees
in the flag, and for that I applaud you, Christmas Islands. However,
after avoiding some embarrassingly obvious pitfalls, the wheels quickly
fell of the wagon for the designer on this one. First of all, the color
combination blue green is challenging to begin with, and in this
particular effort, they clash with great vigor. To make matters worse,
there's a weird blob in the middle of the flag. Presumably a map of the
island which is a horrible idea to begin with, but to make matters
worse, the shape looks like a snail on a twig to anyone not intimately
familiar with Christmas Island geography. Simply awful, and I haven't
even mentioned the big yellow bird thing.
5. Belize
This
flag could have been okay, not great, but okay. If they had left it at the
blue with the two red stripes, no one would ever think twice about this
flag. It would meddle with the many other unspectacular but good enough
flags out there. Well, Belize just had to slap a big weird coat of arms
in the middle of their flag and propel it right to the bottom of flag
designs. Apparently lumber jacking is a big deal in Belize, fair
enough,but did you really need to put a picture of a lumberjack right
there on the flag? And what is the baseball player doing next to him?
The flag goes from weird to downright creepy when you translate the
motto though: 'I flourish in the shadow'... Two guys with an ax and a
bat that flourish in the shadow? That sounds like they are looking to
mug someone. Creepy.
4. Kazakhstan
The more colours you
try to put in a flag design, the more likely you are to fail, keeping it
simple will often be a good idea. So, Kazakhstan has that going for
them, a limited color palette. If you decide to make your palette yellow
and blue however, you are rolling the dice of good taste. These colors
are harder to match than many others, only a handful countries have
tried, and even fewer have succeeded. Kazakhstan on the other hand, has
come up with the worst of all the yellow and blue designs, they have
possibly picked the two shades of blue and yellow that are the least
compatible, and topped it off with some horrible designs. Now, if they
had just put the sun in the center of the flag, and left it at that,
this flag would be nowhere this list, but for some unknown reason, it
felt imperative to put in a badly drawn eagle soaring right into the
sun. At this point, it seems like the flag designers gave up, realized
failure and just added some traditional pattern to also unbalance the
flag and make it horribly complicated.
3. Turkmenistan
In a way, I feel sympathy for the people who set out to create the flag
for this new nation. Obviously, they felt compelled to underline the
country's Islamic roots and so the green flag with the white crescent
and stars becomes a confining starting template, when you also need to
add an orange oriental carpet design to your flag, it's very difficult
to create something that is not horribly ghastly. To difficult for
whomever created this flag apparently, as the flag is horribly ghastly.
2. Central African Republic (Central Africa)
Many flags have been made incredibly busy by adding elaborate drawings
and colorful complex patterns, the Central African Republic on the
other hand, has managed to make an incredibly busy flag with just five
straight lines, and one lonely star. While this flag looks horrible
enough as it is, if it is seen waving in the wind, it actually induces
seizures.
1. Guam
Guam might feel that the rank is
unfair, and they have a point. This is the only of the US territories
that have made it to this list, but that is just to spread the shame a
little, the US territories generally have flags so awful that they could
probably lay claim to the entire list. Well, only one was picked, and
the one picked Guam. This flag is horrible, it looks like they just
bought a t-shirt from the nearest souvenir shop and put it on a flag
pole. Even if this is the case, I have a hard time believing that they
couldn't find a better looking t-shirt.
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