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Introduction

In 2001, the NAVA (Northern American Vexillological Association) 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.

About the wiki

Vexillology Wiki collects proposals for new flags of countries and their subdivisions, currently mainly for Northern America.

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.

Open contests

Middle East

Browse

Category:Browse – Category tree of all pages
Category:Articles – Category tree of mainspace pages (articles)
Recent changes to the wiki (graphical version)
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.

For all country articles, see Category:Countries.

Related wikis

VexiWiki – encyclopedia of current and historical flags, with some design pages for proposals

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 Things you can do:
-*Submit flag designs (either your own or someone else's) by [[Help:Create an account|joining the wiki]], or e-mailing to [mailto:vexillologywiki@gmail.com vexillologywiki@gmail.com]. If you are submitting someone else's design, make sure you have the [[Help:Licensing|right]] to do so, and remember to [[Help:Image description page#Author and source information|give due credit]]. See some guidelines at [[Vexillology Wiki:Images]].
+*Submit flag designs (either your own or someone else's) by [[Help:Create an account|joining the wiki]]<!--, or e-mailing to [mailto:vexillologywiki@gmail.com vexillologywiki@gmail.com]-->. If you are submitting someone else's design, make sure you have the [[Help:Licensing|right]] to do so, and remember to [[Help:Image description page#Author and source information|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 {{w||Wikipedia}} if you credit the Wikipedia authors using {{t|Wikipedia}}.
 *Comment on flag proposals or on pages using the [[Help:Comments|form at the bottom of each article]], or the page's [[Help:Talk pages|talk page]] for non-article pages. Either is linked next to the "Edit" button at the top of the page. Some articles have [[:Category:Proposal pages|subpages for discussing proposals]].
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 For the articles about states, provinces and territories, see the list of subdivisions at the respective country article.
+*{{icon|Flag of Argentina.svg}} [[Argentina]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Australia.svg}} [[Australia]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Austria.svg}} [[Austria]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Belgium.svg}} [[Belgium]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Brazil.svg}} [[Brazil]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Belarus.svg}} [[Belarus]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Bolivia.svg}} [[Bolivia]]
 *{{icon|Flag of Canada.svg}} [[Canada]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Chile.svg}} [[Chile]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Colombia.svg}} [[Colombia]]
+*{{icon|Flag of the Czech Republic.svg}} [[Czech Republic]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Ecuador.svg}} [[Ecuador]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Estonia.svg}} [[Estonia]]
+*{{icon|Flag of France.svg}} [[France]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Germany.svg}} [[Germany]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Italy.svg}} [[Italy]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Liberia.svg}} [[Liberia]]
 *{{icon|Flag of Mexico.svg}} [[Mexico]]
+*{{icon|Flag of the Netherlands.svg}} [[Netherlands]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Palau.svg}} [[Palau]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Panama.svg}} [[Panama]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Poland.svg}} [[Poland]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Russia.svg}} [[Russia]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Slovakia.svg}} [[Slovakia]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Spain.svg}} [[Spain]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Ukraine.svg}} [[Ukraine]]
 *{{icon|Flag of the United States.svg}} [[United States]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Uruguay.svg}} [[Uruguay]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Vanuatu.svg}} [[Vanuatu]]
+*{{icon|Flag of Venezuela.svg}} [[Venezuela]]
+For all country articles, see [[:Category:Countries]].
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+==Related wikis==
+*[[w:c:flags:|VexiWiki]] &ndash; encyclopedia of current and historical flags, with [[w:c:flags:Category:Design pages|some design pages]] for proposals
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