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The current national flag of Lesotho, adopted on the 40th anniversary of Lesotho 's independence on 4 October 2006, [2] features a horizontal blue, white, and green tricolour with a black mokorotlo (a Basotho hat) in the center. The design is intended to reflect a state that is both at peace internally and with its only neighbour South Africa ...
Lesotho covers 30,355 km 2 (11,720 sq mi). It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation. Its lowest point of 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) is thus the highest lowest point of any country in the world. Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800 metres (5,906 ft).
This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other entities, please see gallery of flags of dependent territories. Each flag is depicted as if the flagpole is positioned on the left of the flag, except for those of Iran, Iraq and Saudi ...
Changing to Reflex Blue C and 347C as documented at Flags of the World, Album des Pavillons, Vexilla Mundi, and the 2012 Olympic Flag Manual: 19:24, 12 June 2022: 900 × 600 (3 KB) 292Jacob: The colors are now more brighter: 04:52, 12 January 2022: 900 × 600 (1 KB) MapGrid: Sync with File:Flag of Lesotho (construction sheet).svg. Hat is now ...
During the Parade of Nations within the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, which will take place on 26 July 2024, it is expected that athletes and officials from each participating team march into the Jardins du Trocadéro preceded by their flag and placard bearer.
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
Date: 11 January 2022: Source: Own work.Dimensions are based on the description at Flags of the World (FOTW).The Basotho Hat shown on this construction sheet is a complete rework of the image in the October 4, 2006 version of File:Flag of Lesotho.svg; some minor asymmetries have been removed and the height of the hat has been set to exactly 92% of the width of the white stripe.
Most U.S. state flags were designed and adopted between 1893 and World War I. According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U.S. state, U.S. territory, or Canadian province, while Georgia's state flag was rated the worst design. (Georgia adopted a new flag in 2003 ...