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In 2001, the NAVA (Northern American Vexillological Association), a member of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV, French acronym: Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques), asked their members all around the world to give notes to rate each US state, federal district or territory flag, and each Canadian province or territory flag. More than half of them failed to reach only a standard 5.0 grade. After the survey, the only state that significantly changed its flag was Georgia, in the last position of the poll (with an unhonored 2.36 grade). More states should follow the example. Find out more at the 2001 NAVA survey page. |
What does "vexillology" mean?[]
"Study of flags", literally. Whitney Smith, co-founder of "scientific" study of flags, created this word in 1957. It comprises the term vexillum, the name of banners carried by Roman soldiers, and logos, which means "knowledge" or "science" in Greek.
More specifically, this wiki concerns itself with vexillography (from gráphō, to write or draw), the design of new flags.
About the wiki[]
Vexillology Wiki collects flag proposals, with a focus on new flags for countries, groups and their subdivisions.
Things you can do:
- Submit flag designs (either your own or someone else's) by joining the wiki. If you are submitting someone else's design, make sure you have the right to do so, and remember to give due credit. See some guidelines at Vexillology Wiki:Images.
- Create new articles, or expand existing articles, with information on current and historical flags. You can use content from Wikipedia if you credit the Wikipedia authors using {{Wikipedia}}.
- Comment on flag proposals or on pages using the form at the bottom of each article, or the page's talk page for non-article pages. Either is linked next to the "Edit" button at the top of the page. Some articles have subpages for discussing proposals.
You do not need a Wikia account to edit the wiki, but your IP address will be revealed if you are not logged in, and unregistered users cannot upload files.
See the Community Portal for links to pages that provide help with editing, as well as a list of some useful special pages. Post general questions, ideas and comments about the wiki at either Vexillology Wiki talk:Community Portal or the forum.
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- Category:Browse – Category tree of all pages
- Category:Articles – Category tree of mainspace pages (articles)
- Recent changes to the wiki
- Complete list of pages
Article list by country[]
For the articles about states, provinces and territories, see the list of subdivisions at the respective country article.
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Belarus
- Bolivia
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Italy
- Kyrgyzstan
- Liberia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Palau
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- Poland
- Russia
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
For all country articles, see Category:Countries.
Related wikis and sites[]
- VexiWiki – encyclopedia of current and historical flags, with some design pages for proposals
- /r/vexillology on Reddit
- World Banner Wiki - the same as this wiki but without no flag redesigns
- Vexillology Wiki 2.0