Sources and limits

The images

Flag images are from the flag-icons project, released under the MIT licence, which allows commercial use as long as the licence notice is kept. The images here are resized copies; the flags themselves are not altered.

Which states

196 entries: the 193 United Nations member states, the Holy See and Palestine (UN observer states) and Kosovo. Names follow the flag-icons country list with a few shortened forms. They do not imply any judgment on the legal status of any territory or the endorsement of any boundary.

What the labels cannot tell you

Colours are classified from small images into eight names, so two shades that a vexillologist would separate can land in the same name, and a colour that appears only in a tiny emblem can be missed. Symbols were labelled by hand. This is a finding aid, not an authority: for the official description of a flag, use the country's own law or government site.

Licence notice

flag-icons — Copyright (c) 2013 Panayiotis Lipiridis — MIT License. Permission is granted to use, copy, modify and distribute the software and images subject to this notice being included.