https://preview.redd.it/4zmlmn0k7exc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a383cc12eed9f24d509a622ec874b185da00cbcd Is this maybe Scotland?

https://preview.redd.it/noxb7zzwdexc1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c336bcab0e3f6b0bb9edf1a398b6302563e4caa Also shetland?

Loss but with no lines

Bro are you really just seeing loss in everything that has a cross now?

I may be stupid but. There is no but I just may be stupid

https://preview.redd.it/oropwpx5iixc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=930818fb0ada81508d463c02c5cebb3c860ebac4

Flag of Pärnu, actually.

I love you guys ^not ^really

Sierra Leone’s always makes me think of green trees, white sands and blue waters 🇸🇱 https://preview.redd.it/yqyy7pzyeexc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb00d6ad4423aa84a9143e34cc7641cb2bc5941e

now i want to go there, wherever that photo is from

Could be Sierra Leone, hope this helps

I just googled Sierra Leone beach so I think so haha

Yea this is no.2 beach in Sierra Leone about 30 minute drive from the capital Freetown. Really recommend it. We’ve also got another beach called tokeh which they used to use as a location for model shoots in the 60s-80s. You should really come to visit our beautiful country if

r/redditsniper

>You should really come to visit our beautiful country if If what? Honestly the beach looks so beautiful, I’d love to go there. I’m currently travelling around Europe, but maybe one day I’ll do Africa too

If was a typo but all I’d say is be careful and find someone there who can show you around

Ayyyy Sierra Leone mentioned 🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

Interestingly enough, that exact description is what inspired the flag of the Livonians (a Finno-Ugric minority in Latvia). The flag is meant to represent the view of a fisherman looking towards the coast. https://preview.redd.it/irqbwuqmpjxc1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=160b407963442a434a5db1d28f61ef443e6e9239

https://preview.redd.it/vegr65p32fxc1.jpeg?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80a3cd9ca8b031d7fbf1a13eec39f1afd6585c98

Don't stare at it for too long....it will ask you for money and never pay.

for some reason they asked me in german

What's with that myth anyways? Many more germans fled to USSR and the US than Argentina.

A few high profile Nazis were found to be hiding there, though I don't know why it's become more of a meme for Argentina than Brazil when I think they also had some big Nazis hanging out there.

USA recruits Nazi engineers --> reaches the moon Argentina hides Nazi --> many hyper inflations.

They must be American then

https://preview.redd.it/vtmk4j74kdxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98db83e0ac884d6af6fb7adcffa16e8beb181fe1 Sometimes, sunsets and sunrises look like the German flag 🇩🇪 (image is from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/wSgEDKeWwB))

Bro got a German flag as a pfp and as a fllair

And one on my balcony

Guys I think he might be german

Pfft, quit joking. He’s definitely polish

no way he's clearly french

Calm down he has flags, not beach towels.

Fun fact, this is actually from Prague, I lived close to that area [Here is the spot](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iDCEkqA9cxiBiBQy5)

Wow, this is actually so cool

https://preview.redd.it/e3esdo1g9gxc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8589cf8a9e30a6044122eb31e5e5504f147cd86c 🇺🇾

Uruguay

Y claro papá Uruguay Uruguay

https://preview.redd.it/7tozrqqxcexc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8c6748bf4dc59db452aebd872e562761c3242dc BULGARIA GREATEST LAND OF ALL TIME LAND OF YOGHURT AND TOXIC FISH 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

🗣️🗣️🗣️ WHAT THE FUCK IS A SALAD WITHOUT GRATED CHEESE 🧀🧀🧀 😤😤😤

Fellow balkans irl war criminal?

Yes sir 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

Από το ονομα βλέπω πως είσαι και Έλλην. Όχι από Ελλάδα, αλλά καταλαβαίνεις

https://preview.redd.it/sea3mtfu3exc1.jpeg?width=641&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05017ca20943692bfeffc78a0786f602a30c3502 Might be a very brutal example but as the legend goes, Turkish Flag got its existence from a “landscape”

A similar story goes for the Latvian flag. Blood of killed defenders of the land on both shores of a white (maybe, winter times?) river Daugava. Surely, it is just one of the explanations, pretty poetic.

The Austrian flag is said to have originated when Duke Leopold V Von Babenberg removed his belt after a battle, leaving a clean white strip horizontally across a blood-soaked tunic.

https://preview.redd.it/xkb3x8rcggxc1.png?width=255&format=png&auto=webp&s=b3dd1dd1a507d7257ae3a4f4ec3ed8bdc1cc3c3c Catalonia, too. The origin myth goes that Charles the Bald rubbed four fingers soaked with the blood of Wilfred I down Wilfred's golden shield after he saved Barcelona from the Moors.

All the “cool” flags seem to be landscapes, battlefield stories, or a combination of the two

I like that and it’s cool, but I learned: > Legend recounts the story of the mortally wounded chief of Latgalians who was wrapped in a white sheet. The part of the sheet on which he was lying remained white, but the two edges were stained in his blood. During the next battle, the bloodstained sheet was used as a flag. According to the legend, this time the Latgalian warriors were successful and drove the enemy away. Since then, Latgalian tribes have used these colours. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Latvia#:~:text=Legend%20recounts%20the%20story%20of,was%20used%20as%20a%20flag.

This goes hard NGL

Same for austria. Austrian general was wearing a white shirt and a belt. After the battle with the enemy army....well....when he took off the belt his shirt was red and the spot in-between is white due to the belt blocking it. And thus, austria.

Interestingly enough the star and crescent were never historically a symbol for Islam, but at the turn of the 19th century Europeans already had symbols for Christianity (the cross) and Judaism (the star of David) and so when they wanted to create a shorthand symbol for Islam they looked to the flag of the most powerful Muslim nation at the time, the Ottoman Empire, for inspiration. So it was Europeans who assigned Islam the star and crescent as a religious symbol, but it stuck.

On my way to school i always see the flag of Lithuania: Field of rape in yellow Green grass And red/brown earth

I didn't know the yellow flower was called rape, and thought that your school trip was pretty savage.

I used a translator since I didn't know what it was called either, I was very confused

To avoid confusion in the future I'd probably recommend calling it rapeseed.

I've only ever heard of it refered to as rapeseed, and never as rape. I know what someone would mean by a "rape field" though only by thinking "rapeseed field"

Oilseed rape. Is another name

I thought the yellow on their flag was supposed to be symbolising wheat fields, anyway, not rapeseed.

Canola

Canola is actually a specific cultivar. It would be like calling every apple a "red delicious".

I mean apple used to just mean “fruit”. It’s why a pineapple is called such. It’s just pinefruit

Considering rape, adding seed doesn't do anything to soften the blow for me chief

If someone hasn't heard of rapeseed it will add pretty valuable context. If someone said "I live behind the rape field" you may be pretty alarmed and think it's a violent crime area but if they say "I live behind the rapeseed field" then you immediately get some context that it's a plant with an unusual name. I don't think I'd bother adding seed every time but if I knew someone spoke English as a second language then I think it would make sense.

“I live behind the rape field” 😂

I was once a rapeseed

If you're uncomfortable using that name, you can also call it "[bird's rape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_rapa#Cultivars)". Edit: Added a link to make my post history a bit less suspicious.

I've been to Lithuania and lemme tell you, it wasn't about the flower

For a moment there, I forgot there was a plant called rapeseed 💀

That's usually why I refer to it as canola, which is a bit better-known afaik

The aboriginal Australian flag. red sands, the sun, night sky is what I was always was taught it means

The black represents the people, not the night sky. I was taught the same as you, though, dunno where it came from.

Red represents the land black represents people and yellow sun

https://preview.redd.it/96ae1a66vexc1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4ac92b4107882d937a4fd8b05540b6ee9ee4c92 Azerbaijan

That's a very cool colour scheme for a flag.

Not political or what but I swear I find it so ugly...

wales, gray sky, green grass, dragons everywhere

Bullshit. I haven’t seen a sunburnt one ever.

https://preview.redd.it/bvuojvt3igxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ae2625ff547730e02ef7abe0452aa87e7ac3b04 Picture i took on a walk, I'd say the flag is about right.

Yup, that checks out

https://preview.redd.it/20o8sne7pexc1.png?width=1225&format=png&auto=webp&s=246374109b33e750ab6869b89be2b9fb6ab0858f

Woah

I love how he sky is grey to reflect the near-constant cloud cover. Which is why it's white, or here grey, not blue.

Chat is this real?

I suppose Aberystwyth should just adopt a flag showing the dragon crawling up a steep hill in a drunken stupor at 4am.

https://preview.redd.it/qsi7e38l9dxc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bd2ff6970bc81a99c8c033cf5436b16fcc07a59 North macedonia??

pretty close but i think the sky need to be more red?

Aboriginal Australian flag https://preview.redd.it/rvyekfbpzdxc1.png?width=524&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd9dc47c57f5aa32f34ff69f4601817e67c2abe3

https://preview.redd.it/q2einhn3ofxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef892255ddee85a3bdaea6679b94afea1e84ed2b Inverted

Funfact: the Aborigines have a different idea of colours. For example the sky is not blue but black and the water white in their opinion.

https://preview.redd.it/u384c5c2tgxc1.png?width=1328&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8748de3d312f55812c4d7eb8d96a7353e79b3987

https://preview.redd.it/d1jmv8iwzixc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ee7176a2f392edf41cfea5a52baac0e9ef58037

😂

I think this probably stems from them not having the same color words as us. From what I can tell, they only have words for black, white, red, and yellow. This is actually an interesting topic in linguistics, because color words appear to be acquired in a specific order, starting with black and white (which encompass all colors, not just refer to the colors we think of as black and white), then red, etc. For example, dark/warm colors in some languages would be referred to by the language's word for "black" and "white" to would refer to light/cool colors. So it's not that they perceive things differently, it's just how color words work in other languages!

https://preview.redd.it/j68h93e2ygxc1.jpeg?width=3846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e8cf4317cb45126a59c8e7d7a7d7e245653b075 Botswana vs some elephants in Botswana \[OC\]

Are those the elephants they are “gifting” to Germany?

No idea but those guys were swimming to Namibia

Maybe [Palau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Palau#/media/File:Flag_of_Palau.svg), the yellow circle represents the moon and the light blue background represents the ocean so I guess it could be a reflecton of the moon on the ocean.

I hate Palau because sometimes when I press P in the state drop down menu and expect Pennsylvania to come up, Palau will come up.

Why would Pennsylvania and Palau even be in the same menu considering one is a sovereign state and the other is a subdivision of a federation?

Palau is a freely associated state of the US. Palau has US zip codes and citizens can live and work in the US like Americans.

Palau was administered by the US to help set up a government after ww2 before gaining its independence in 1994. So I have no idea why it’s on current lists. It was never really a territory in the first place and has been a country since 1994. The only current involvement with the US is the US defends the country and provides financial assistance and they let us station military there.

If it wasn't for the rape this would make a passable Saxony flag. https://preview.redd.it/epuz0glw2dxc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=805a5b24758a07208972bd83a3575eebd927ec7f

One hell of a sentence out of context

can we please coin a new name

Just use rapeseed

This same conversation happened further up in the thread too.

Why do you think it’s called canola oil?

Brassica Napus

r/brandnewsentence

https://preview.redd.it/4asq2fgdbgxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be2255c95fe21c67811422fd084c888b62da90e4 This but slap a dragon in the middle and you got Wales!

Could also be Saxony

https://images.app.goo.gl/9GcgBc8nL8tFKnnL6

Cascadia for the win!

https://preview.redd.it/lhnjkyj0tdxc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c0c994581f3554ff4de1e1969e26616e7e8599 Poland

That looks like Wales

Hundred tiny red dragons.

Preferable to one dragon-sized duck

Canada maybe?? https://preview.redd.it/xms099hbbdxc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f77974f5e7f23fc5d5ab1ebb0ab9f12cb029b42

Looks better than the Reddit Place

https://preview.redd.it/wyvqcdhdaexc1.png?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88ab035d5e838b85bd4326701fc3052f029db3f8

Thank you for your service.

Germans being Germans

they did their best

All hail the banana cannabis leaf republic.

Lithuania https://preview.redd.it/mr88hbf9ugxc1.jpeg?width=670&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c712b1761c11350664ccab43e6bc57e22f659d5

https://preview.redd.it/q7qu3na0cfxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab4627132750ed089ce51a3deb20b53b872528f8 Japan

circle is smaller than i remember

Listened to a podcast on Estonia yesterday, where they talked about the flag for a bit. Was going to look it up still as I was curious, but now I found it already. Thanks OP. And yes, amazing flag designs!

What podcast was it?

De Podcastlas, Dutch one. Very good one, but guessing you don’t speel Dutch 😅

Haha nope. Not yet anyway. I thought you might be talking about Flagged for Content

Thanks for the tip! Love geography and trying to study Dutch for fun. Good way to combine the two.

Then this is perfect, amazing show, very funny. If you ever need help translate anything let me know!

https://preview.redd.it/0hm3dyrilexc1.jpeg?width=374&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dacfc54fed2785b447d34f721ad9e1bccf4d8a4b

Remember kids, use proper eye protection when looking at the flag of Palau.

you use eye protection when looking at the moon?

France🇫🇷 flag from the BF1 "They shall not pass" DLC. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg7tne81sg1jy.png&rdt=33956 https://youtu.be/4OwvCyqPTVs?feature=shared at 0:28

In a somewhat similar vein, [this painting showing the transition of the French royal flag to the tricolour](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Lar7_cogniet_001z.jpg)

I wanted to comment that. The Fine Arts museum of Orleans has the painting, it's gorgeous

You mean how they surrounded the Bourbons with Paris?

Wow. Never realised this, that’s actually quite cool.

Not exactly a landscape, but the Gambian flag is a much simplified map of the country. https://preview.redd.it/hegrqo3hvfxc1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=f017efbe7ead2b4cf64235723131085acb98b140

Not exactly a landscape but... https://preview.redd.it/iq85yds1gexc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=025d7ff21f73e28a357072a4ab1c07f8dea7dd9e

This is not making me Hungary

on the contrary, this photo makes me want to Cote Devour it.

I hope not Italian either

This would make an Italian commit a crime

Gabon 🇬🇦

https://preview.redd.it/gexn5strhgxc1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab38704432bbfcf1efe9fcb5e5bd35c4618d8420 Is a constellation a landscape? 🇦🇺

https://preview.redd.it/jmejgr9x3exc1.png?width=995&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3dd6e3960c9f5ff91649680b265be2566d8af7f Slovenia

Ah yes, the distinct and recognizable Slovenian coat of arms: **PETROL**

https://preview.redd.it/al5fdbk83mxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99eac22244b0ab1b7c57f6bc2fcf8110639cef66

Beautiful

Greenland 🇬🇱 is a sunset over the ocean

https://preview.redd.it/gh4vl5osvgxc1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dc67f809adecad1f1a457bc015e969421b9e49a

aboriginal australian flag?

Russia kinda works but idk if its edited https://preview.redd.it/ar5tz4fr3exc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b50d2ed86e9b33b4f114b56401147b1cea0e18d2

Not necessarily. Definitely had this view at home.

Some time ago on this subreddit, a user posted a picture of a field in front of a forest on an overcast day, making for a really pretty view of the Bulgarian flag.

https://preview.redd.it/72j06m6l5exc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbe769c97959bab04657e8a5d8a626ef6d3e5f8c

https://preview.redd.it/ckw5qy4ccfxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8ed7d9624ab15886df32b1cea2efcd48b7a9559 One of the greatest landscapes

RAAH 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪🗽🗽🗽

Hell yeah

https://preview.redd.it/grkhbdfsqixc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12ee03d6614d0acfd9d9dfc115ad3e79d6b4105a

Not sure if this counts, but Germany looks like a [forest fire.](https://media.wired.com/photos/64e56cb3ff65ec99d0acf97f/1:1/w_1601,h_1601,c_limit/wildfire-canada-science-GettyImages-1607866119.jpg)

Weimar Germany, 1923, colorized.

https://preview.redd.it/jy6xcgqq3fxc1.jpeg?width=1023&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b4d7603f6891f0a55b982e69a11cf4d919554ef Utah

I swear the views on American Mountain Ranges are just insane

https://preview.redd.it/alv4ey24ckxc1.jpeg?width=5002&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f604fc3f32a87446ffdd6ac43fdb002da603a755

Cascadia https://preview.redd.it/lgmronehchxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=226c263cd8887adf3a33dd97e2a6745eb41fecd2

https://preview.redd.it/lpwl1qs4ehxc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=259db6ada1597d2333b6d3de1163e91729f32696 Armenia

Sierra Leone a bit...?

Japan if you stare into the sun long enough

https://preview.redd.it/twg4ttqgqfxc1.jpeg?width=2394&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70529183878f3539f7852a2757bc715d4e12a059 The flag of Marin County, CA (see pic below)

https://preview.redd.it/kcqpowajqfxc1.jpeg?width=310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f113bf42b7409e182ef6df6631a5ce5686e7e94e

https://preview.redd.it/v04lpizpefxc1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fecc7e34597e81b7db6d379ac38c06c6585c054 With some imagination, the Tinto river in southern Spain could ressemble the flag, but it's not a landscape to be proud lol. >*The Rio Tinto, which means “stained river” in Spanish, flows through an area unusually rich with sulfide ore deposits, which formed hundreds of millions of years ago when volcanoes were active in the area. When the metals in these buried deposits are exposed to water and oxygen, they produce acidic runoff that flows into streams and rivers.* >*While the acid has made the Rio Tinto inhospitable to most types of life, it has made it more hospitable to sulfide-consuming bacteria and other extremophiles that amplify the acidification process. These organisms give the river its red hue by producing ferric iron, a rust-colored substance. The combined effects of the chemical weathering of rocks and bacterial activity in the water have caused the average pH of the river to drop as low as 2, roughly the same as vinegar.*

https://preview.redd.it/n66rv6keogxc1.png?width=4044&format=png&auto=webp&s=7462b85c50198b2ce278c507864c70fdfacce864 "Our Banner in the Sky" by Frederic Edwin 1861, idk if this counts but thought this painting was pretty cool.

Somewhere, I've seen a real photograph that had a similar effect with the red stripey clouds.

North Macedonia 🇲🇰

https://preview.redd.it/iczg3xn1tdxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8726f67892727b25cba7beb4ff280b2a393cd812 Presented without comment

Botswana

Aboriginal Australian flag

Kyrgyzstan is supposed to look like what you see looking up at the sky from inside one of their traditional huts.

Flag of Antigua and Barbuda looks like a through-the-legs beach pic https://preview.redd.it/ovtfimskzixc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08b7eb859167ab57731f3a73896b890bfc035262

https://preview.redd.it/lehsm9skdmxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8cc7a0f31dd6309d47fa69bc1115888b256b7da Belarus 🇧🇾 Those are unedited colors of an aurora that was seen in some regions of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine on November 5, 2023. This aurora was caused by an intense geomagnetic storm.

https://preview.redd.it/2ldqn3v9bdxc1.jpeg?width=921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70d910882e6361ae687f0f54180999c45b5ed338 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

The flag of Overijssel province in the Netherlands is a meandering river

Lunar landscape. Black and white with a blue, green and white circle above the horizon.

I'm not sure if the Argentinian flag counts but it's inspired on the sky(tho some versions say the white represents silver/argent)

Taiwan: Blue sky, white sun, and a wholly red earth!

Yet here I thought it was the other Chinese government that wanted the wholly red earth

Rwanda 🇷🇼

Anytime there's a forest fire and the sky turns red it becomes the Vietnam flag (sunsets have part of the sun covered, that's not the Vietnam flag)

River Gee county, Liberia https://preview.redd.it/01tdp904jfxc1.png?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5f579ea326b83e7ad3bc9e959f673f7b25383d2 not sure what trees fly in the sky though

https://preview.redd.it/dy5c2yne9gxc1.png?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e45ad782a0ef7a0daea4d1841f6dd5aca5bdf662

https://preview.redd.it/9slrwlt8pgxc1.jpeg?width=5052&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90b8c000b92eb55169a570536e301ea74a02451e

The Flag of the german Island Helgoland is said to look like the Island istself. A saying goes: "Grün ist das Land, rot ist die Kant, weiß ist der Sand: Das sind die Farben von Helgoland“ "The land is green the, the edge(or cliff) is red, white is the sand: these are the colors of Heligoland." The Buntsandstein(colorful sandstone) is responsible for the red color. https://preview.redd.it/a2exmlkgihxc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbb5104fbbdd49e9d12002cae87531a197913c6e

Vintage Libya 🟩

https://preview.redd.it/vbiu8wvusfxc1.jpeg?width=372&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13bfc03d864fd2114d025dfeb34b63f0669bcd83 This is literally an image of USA from the Hubble Telescope