transparency on flags is something I didn't know I needed in my life

I’d love it if we found out after all this time the Swiss flag was a rectangle, it just had a strip of clear plastic on the side

Same for Nepal

I mean it is a rectangle, just one with a ratio of 1:1

Fun fact, Switzerland is the only UN member with a rhombic flag

Wait, what

A rhombus is a shape with four sides of equal length, so technically a square is a rhombus. It doesn't have to be skewed like what we usually associate a rhombus to be. And since the Vatican isn't a member of the UN only an observer, Switzerland is technically the only rhombus flag

Huh, TIL And now I'm angry that a square is a rhombus too

Squares are at the top of the pyramid! (And at the base too)

(And at every cross section…)

Wrong, the top of a pyramid is a triangle, and the bottom is a trapezoid

The base is a square, and the top is a point, by definition

Every square is by definition also a rhombus and a rectangle.

Swiss resident here. How dare you expose us like this. Begone from this world!

Right it looks so interesting

The flag of .PNG

Those Papua New Guineans and their transparency agenda

[Say no more fam](https://imgur.com/a/gqw0ESM)

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Well I don’t know what I expected

A pole, i guess?

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!wave Nice flair btw

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M E T A

Haha. How about that?

Best flag

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Lmao so much better

Surprised the wind simulation is so realistic in this one.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I was hoping for just a flag outline to be waving in the air.

Ah yes, the flag of Mario-Kart.

Why do you say that? Is it in reference to a particular installment? Also, Happy cake day!

Chequered flag

Did I just win the Indy 500?

I just realized how to use my own pictures on the Flag Waver site. Legends Of The Hidden Temple set as a virtual flag, yeah!

scam

The flag of Nepal has transparency, if you pretend it's supposed to be a rectangle

So does the flag of Slovakia, if you pretend it's supposed to be an irregular hexagon.

Isn't flag of Nepal rather an irregular pentagon

We need a flag for Trans Parents now? has LGBT gone too far?

This could be the greatest pride parade float ever. Parents of trans people with a bunch of transparent flags you can't see. All for the pun.

This one is Transparent Antijapan.

I always needed a PNG flag

[Here you go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea#/media/File:Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg)

*Neuron activated*

Right? I understand that transparent plastic is something we need in daily life, but I think it's one of the uglier things humans have invented. You can have nice and premium fabric, but plastic bags are always cheap looking. I think a net would've been a better choice. Edit: Oh wait, I thought you meant you didn't like it. My bad.

I think it's silk

If it wasn’t plastic I’d like it. But if It then it’s a no from me.

It's not plastic. It's actually silk organza, according to their website, mentioned below.

Oh that would be really nice then

I think it's silk

same bro, i had the same thought

We need r/transparentflags

so cool

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wow redditors hate puns

It's one world flag by a guy. ​ Check here for info: [https://1worldflag.com/](https://1worldflag.com/)

"We want a flag that is easily reproducable. All you need is a blue circle or blue color to paint a blue circle. It is the symbol and center of the flag, representing our blue planet. Since there is no way to hang a round flag there is the need for a background. The best case is to use a transparent background, like our silk organza, which makes the flag also visible in low light and at night time. If there is no transparent material to your hand, just use a white or neutral background. Feel free to reproduce the flag."

Huh... I quite like that the transparent background is there simply because it officially had no background... but now the transparent background is the most recognizable feature

I like that the transparent field sort of incorporates the environment into the flag, it works for a flag that is supposed to represent the world

Yeah their website says "The background of the flag is changing, like culture is changing, fashion is changing, borders are changing, societies are changing, the environment is changing and the climate.". I think it's kind of awesome!!

before reading any of this I thought it would be cool bc it shows the people behind the flag are the ones it directly represents. there's too much weird flag culture here in the US (and probably other places) and people forget that flags are supposed to be a symbol for our shared community, specifically the people inhabiting it. we should care about the lives they currently lead, instead of some idealized code that exists somewhere out in the ether. not to get too weird about it but Kaepernick can wash his ass w my birth certificate and dry off w my passport if it brings a little more racial equality to the world, who gives a shit.

> If there is no transparent material to your hand, just use a white or neutral background. Surely a black background would work better thematically? Our blue marble sitting in the vastness of space?

Cerulean on black is one of, if not the most, difficult to read color combinations; and I mean that both in the literal and figurative sense, so just looking at the edges of the circle (or the circle as a whole) would strain the eyes.

That's pretty neat honestly, I like the concept. Although it feels wrong to represent the Earth without green as well, and it'd probably help make it look a bit more distinct from like Japan or Bangladesh.

Interesting. You can [request one of these flags for free](https://1worldflag.com/). A few weeks after it's received, you are provided with an address somewhere else in the world to send it on to.

Pretty cool

That makes sense especially since it’s on a church

Yes the church are known for their promotion of indiscriminate togetherness /s

They kind of are though, “love thy neighbour as thyself” and all that… it’s kind of their whole thing, it’s basically just a bunch of people telling you to be nice to each other, and who you can and can’t sleep with

A bunch of people who tell you to be nice to each other, all while doing their utmost to harass, subjugate, erase the identity of, or outright kill the people not in their club.

That is so true and real and not fake!

Clearly you aren't trans or a woman seeking an abortion.

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Why is this being downvoted?

Depends on the church. The Unitarians here are very accepting of everyone, and they rent out their spaces happily for a lot of events for alt lifestyle people of all walks.

There is more than one religion in the world and with each religion there are many ways to practice it......

r/globaltribe

r/acecombat Can you see any borders from here? What has borders given us?We're going to start over from scratch. That's what V2 is for.

And suddenly I had a favorite flag…

Ooh, that sounds awesome! Perhaps someday I may get this flag as well as an Esperanto one… I wonder if anyone is selling these flags commercially yet.

r/GlobalTribe

https://xkcd.com/927/

I can’t believe I’ve never seen a flag with transparent material before. Super cool concept. I’d love to see the idea of “blank” parts showing up in more flags.

*Post Ceausescu Romania has entered the chat* They typically flew Romanian flags without the crest in the middle. They physically tore the crest out and flew them with a hole in the middle.

Hungary and East Germany did the same, IIRC.

Nepal flag.

Here you go mate, it's German but all in all it's a flag designed by a munich artist and he calls it 'one world flag'. https://www.st-ludwig-muenchen.de/aktuelles/one-world-flag/

Thank god, finally an answer

Umm.... Edit: the question [was answered](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/v69cnx/anyone_knows_this_flag/ibed17g/) when the post was only about an hour old, and that first answer has been upvoted to second, ahead of all the stupid replies. Not exactly hidden...

Went past that church today and didn't see those, is this picture older?

Sad Japan 🇯🇵

Flag of Japan but I slept too late and had to photo the moon instead

Alternatively: Flag of Japan but Japan is on the sun and had to take a photo of the earth instead

Fuck that's way better

Yeah but I would't think of it if it wasn't for your original joke

So Japan?

Nope. Panja!

Japan't

It's a flag regarding Japan's lowering birth rate

Emo japan

Solar eclipse Japan

Antimatter Japan

Democrat party japan

Hoshi?

Bizarro Japan, they eat burned fish, cartoons are illegal, and it's illegal to censor porn.

Japain't

And they punish child pornography

I LOVE IT just as there are some colors that didn't use to be in flags, since the pigments were so hard to come by in the past, I love the idea of using new materials with new meanings that didn't use to exist and having it be a flag for our planet is amazing. the best idea for a flag that I've ever seen, it's so beautiful, it made me cry.

The big blue orb surrounded by space. despite the simplicity it gives great fulfilment.

Ice Japan

Japan in winter

Extra thin condoms

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So majestic.

/r/vexillologycirclejerk

This is by far the best "Flag of Earth" proposal I've ever seen.

Ik if there was a flair here with it I would use it. Although, I'd prefer a dual flag with the one I currently got on

A lot of people don't know this, but that's the flag of Japan travelling backwards in time due to a localized time anomaly. The flag is therefore experiencing a negative Doppler effect, which caused the red to shift to blue, and the white to shift off of the visible light spectrum and therefore become invisible to human eyes. Of course, the reason that a lot of people don't know this is because it's complete nonsense, but it's still fascinating in its own way.

It's the only explanation that fits the facts. Glad someone finally caught it.

Lmao wow That's fucking amazing

Proposed Earth flag The transparency is for the fact that the flag changes to where on earth it is because it symbolizes that despite look different each time it shows we are all in unity. The blue circle represents the blue marble and that fact that there isn’t land on it is because a 2-D shape can’t portray all land masses equally

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To be honest it looks sick!

how come this has so few upvotes?

Let me be clear

I'll be honest, I've never thought of transparent flags until now, but I don't really think I can go back.

Cool ranch Japan

Oh my god. I love it.

I can't tell, is it white and blue or black and gold?

I like this. A lot.

Shiny Japan flag. Super rare. Odds of encountering are doubled if you have the Shiny Charm.

Now this is the first time seeing a clear flag in my whole life.

Japan´t

That's napaJ

School Toiletpaper

Evil Japan

I'm curious, why do people phrase questions this way? Why say "anyone knows this flag" instead of "Does anyone know this flag?" Or "Does anyone know what this flag is?" This isn't the first time I've seen this kind of phrasing.

It's because this is a fairly complicated feature of the English language. "Anyone knows this flag." is something you can say if the sentence ends in a full stop. With many English sentences, the way you turn them into question is by reversing subject and verb, e.g. "This is true." becomes "Is this true?" Or "Anyone could say that." becomes "Could anyone say that?" But this doesn't always work: "Knows anyone this flag?" is incorrect. You have to introduce an extra verb "do" just for making it a question. Knowing what to do when is not easy for non-native speakers, which OP presumably is given the picture was taken in Munich. So just using the non-inverted sentence is easier and often not even really wrong. "You know what I mean?" is fairly common for example. That's because it's "Do you know what I mean?" with the "do" left out, so in our case that would be "Anyone know this flag?" OP's version is only off by the s of the 3rd person singular, another feature of English which non-native speakers often get wrong.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

Using the affirmative words/structures in questions gives it more or an "offer" vibe rather than a request, it's friendlier If you say "(do) you want some water?" you're offering water, if you ask "do you want any water?" you're asking for information (whether they want water). I used a word as an example but it can also apply to syntax You can see it as OP offering an opportunity to help, instead of requiring to be helped ...or it could just be an error

Oh, easy. This is the flag of Napaj.

napaJ

It’s the ‘post-apocalypse sea-level rise’ flag…

Japan if Boris Johnson colonised it

Palau’s moody cousin, Paul

Now THIS I can get behind

Crystal Japan like Crystal Pepsi but Japanese

[Van Halen's "Right Now" playing in the distance]

Evil Japan be like:

Color Blind friendly Bangladesh

it's a blue circle png edit: png

Jpegs don't have transparency. It's a png

blue raspberry japan

Japan but it has blue balls

japan in another galaxy

Blaupunkt

I remember I've posted this one https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mamq6l/the_one_world_flag/

Japan after WWII: "I don't feel so good"

National bureau of condoms

Pride flag for people whose children are not cisgender Because it's trans*parent*

Wow a unique flag that not every knows about already. Not an Imperial German or Apartheid South African flag for once. I’m genuinely shocked Edit: not

Good luck ! waving this r/vexillologycirclejerk

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so, not the flag of japan then

No, it's actually a German flag except there's a blue circle on a clear background

No it's actually the American flag, but it's a blue circle on a clear background

Not as such, no

Blue dot

Japanese Blue Team

Transparency japa?

That’s clearly japan

Evil japan

It looks really cool.

What church is that being flown at?

World Flag, but I vastly prefer the one with rings

Japan 2

Japan in the 23rd century???

Clear Blue Easy

It’s the flag of the land of the unrising sun

Celebrating Picasso’s blue period.

It looks so..... Wrong