Flags originated on battlefields as a means of identification and hierarchy. Over the years, they have evolved to incorporate symbols significant to the countries they represent. Click through as ...

Luxembourg, a neighbouring country, didn't copy them, but they have the same colour only slightly longer and use a different ...

Argentina has a blue and white flag. The flag's colours symbolise the sky, the waters of the Rio de la Plata, and peace ...

the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen independent countries - Armenia ...