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National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons .
Only countries which are currently sovereign states are listed, although the flag may have been adopted before the countries gained independence. The listed countries may have undergone fundamental regime changes, great geographical changes or even temporarily lost autonomy, or undergone political unions or secessions. If the flag remained in ...
National symbols may be not only applied to sovereign states but also nations and countries in a state of colonial or other forms of dependence, federal integration, or even ethnocultural communities that identify as a "nationality" despite lacking autonomy. [1]
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Flags of country subdivisions (12 C, 16 P, 1 F) * Redirects from emoji flags (342 P) Flags of dependent territories (5 C, 19 P) A. Flags of Afghanistan (4 P)
Flags by country (112 C, 1 P) Heraldry by country (38 C, 17 P) Symbols of North America by country (23 C) A. National symbols of Abkhazia (7 P)
Displays a flag of the named parameter in "icon" size, currently 23×15 pixels plus a one pixel border. This template is very similar to Template:Flag icon, except the image is not linked to an article, i.e. it is "purely decorative" per World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).