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Vexillology
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A community dedicated to flags and discussion about flags.
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Today is the Day of the Flemish Community in Flanders, Belgium. Here's the flag of Flanders!
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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Today, July 10, is the 133:rd anniversary of Wyoming gaining statehood. This is the nice flag they could have had if they had just removed the seal in the middle.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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Today, July 10, is exactly 50 years since Bahamas gained independence and adopted this flag.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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Today, July 9, is the 12th anniversary of the independence of South Sudan, the world's youngest country. This is their flag.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
It is often said that a flag should not have more than three, maybe four colors, but I think South Sudan does quite well with six colors.
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Al-Sulami flag, which was historically used by the Al Bin Ali tribe, and from which the current flags of Bahrain and Qatar originated.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
It also spawned an old Kuwaiti flag in use until 1871:
Admittedly, the sources seem a bit scarce on the posted version of the flag. But at least there seem to have existed at least a similar flag used by the Al Bin Ali tribe.
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Article on the 100th anniversary of the flag of the city of Chicago: https://www.britannica.com/story/100th-anniversary-of-chicagos-flag
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Today, July 7, Solomon Islands celebrate 45 years as an independent nation. Here's their flag!
(upload.wikimedia.org)
The five stars originally represented the five provinces. However, the province division has been redrawn since, but they still kept the five stars.
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Today, July 6, is Malawi Independence day. Here's the flag they adopted when gaining independence from UK in 1964.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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Today, July 5, Cape Verde celebrates their independence from Portugal in 1975. This is their flag!
(upload.wikimedia.org)
Originally, they had this flag from 1975-1992:
Clearly, this version was related to Guinea-Bissau, to which Cape Verde had close ties. Both were Portuguese colonies and their independence movements were intertwined. There were even ambitions unifying the two countries.
Wikipedia on the relations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde%E2%80%93Guinea-Bissau_relations
It never happened though, and Cape Verde broke a way after a coup in Guinea-Bissau in 1980, and went its own way with its own flag, which I personally find more appealing. It is more distinct and free from the coat of arms.
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415 years ago, on July 3 1608, Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain. Since 1987, this is the flag of the city (not province).
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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Today, July 2, is the Day of the Flag in Curaçao, celebrating that the flag was adopted on this day in 1984.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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The flag of Papua New Guinea was adopted on this day, 1 July 1971. The design, created by schoolgirl Susan Karike, was chosen through a nationwide contest.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
This was an earlier proposal, but in my opinion the current flag looks better: 
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47 years ago, 1976, Seychelles gained its independence. This was the original flag.
(upload.wikimedia.org)
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When it first became independent, in 1962, it had a sorghum plant and a drum in the middle instead of the stars:
When the monarchy was abolished in 1966, the drum was removed, as it was a royal symbol:
In 1967, they finally settled on the three stars in the middle, representing the three ethnic groups of Burundi: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa.
They actually changed the aspect ratio in 1982, so the title is not entirely correct, but today still seems like the most appropriate day to post their flag.
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Here's the flag of Djibouti, that gained independence from France on June 27 1977, 46 years ago today.
(lemmy.world)
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Here's an example of it in real life: 
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