Complete Flags of the World: The Ultimate Pocket Guide

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Find out what makes the US stars and stripes so unique and the ancient medieval cantons of Switzerland noteworthy. Detailed notes and annotation reveal the origins, design development, and significance of colours, symbols, crests, and coats of arms and the reasons for recent changes to the flags. Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols, cultural and national emblems, and how designs and meanings have evolved. The book is great on the whole but having the name Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's republic mentioned is inappropriate when the war of propaganda is fought raging alongside the real war. The concept of a country, as it pertains to country flags, can vary based on different criteria and perspectives. The audience for this book would primarily be children and to feed these impressionable minds such insensitive details about another person's country is corrupt and morally reprehensible at best.

We express our immense gratitude and support to doctors, nurses and other workers in health care and other services who are protecting our society.A wonderful gift for flag enthusiasts! This guide to flags helps you identify flags and understand their symbolism. Learn about how flag designs have evolved over centuries and how to identify flags by their distinguishing features. This educational guide to flags details more than 400 examples and covers everything from geography, communications, politics, sport, history and art.

Comprehensive text explaining the significant elements of their design, colours, symbols, and insignia. Beautifully illustrated introductory spreads that trace the history of banners, standards, and flags and explain the terms used to describe them Added flags of 25 dependent territories of North America, 3 of South America, 5 of Europe (including Crown Dependency), 5 of Africa, 6 of Asia and 31 of Oceania! All information is presented succinctly and clearly without any long, complex, encyclopedic sentences. Only the most important! Only the most interesting! To make it interesting for children to read and easy to remember! Maps of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and the Caribbean have been added to the maps of each continent of the world and the USA,A wonderful gift for flag enthusiasts! This guide to flags helps you identify flags and understand their symbolism. Learn about how flag designs have evolved over centuries and decades and how to identify flags by their distinguishing features. This educational guide to flags details more than 400 examples and covers everything from geography, communications, politics, sport, history, and art. Children of any age will love learning about the colorful flags, capital cities and interesting facts about countries from around the world and parents will find it useful for testing a child’s knowledge of geography. The world continues to contract as the years go by Air travel, the Internet and mobile telephones mean that we can travel and communicate in ways we would never have imagined even just 100 years ago.So, when your child asks about a country in Africa, or a city in South America, what do you say? The perfect guide to vexillology for anyone interested in the origin, history, and symbolism of flags. Inside this flag book, you'll find: Updated the flags of some countries that started using new flags and updated the Mississippi State flag,