*Are there any other similar flags from other regions of the world?* Also, learn more than ever from important non-fiction books at shortform.com/GENERALKNOWLEDGE and receive 5-days of unlimited access and an additional 25% discount on the annual subscription.

@NKthecat_23

Жыл бұрын

first, one is french guiana in south america

@oguzhan9346

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you can do crescent and star

@lanceuppercut_

Жыл бұрын

Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador all have a yellow-blue-red tricolour, and Bolivia is similar but with green instead of blue

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

@@oguzhan9346 Both are on my list! The crescent one I believe we immediately have the muslim connection but the stars are an interesting question

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

@@lanceuppercut_ True!

Lithuania is my favourite west African country 🙂

@GOATV596

Жыл бұрын

First reply for video

@o_s-24

Жыл бұрын

And bolivia

@mayuri4184

Жыл бұрын

And Myanmar

@JanKarkoska

Жыл бұрын

And Saint Kitts and Nevis

@mattiazanni3086

Жыл бұрын

And Grenada

Fun fact: Rwanda (Another African country) use to also use the same Pan-African colours on their flag right up until 2001.

@DragonTheOneDZA

9 ай бұрын

It was the guinea flag but with... Let me say this.. AN *_R_*

I'm an Ethiopian. So happy you covered this. One thing I'd like to add is that when you look at a rainbow from afar it looks like it has 3 colors, red, yellow and red. This is very significant as most of the Ethiopian rulers were Orthodox Christian and the rainbow is an important symbol of God's favor.

@legobricksandvideogames

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry my country colonised urs

@Betty-jp7sw

Жыл бұрын

@@legobricksandvideogames NO ONE colonized us!

@simpmaster7995

Жыл бұрын

@@Betty-jp7sw Colonized by IL DUCE's Army.

@General.Knowledge

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the added information! :)

@theoneblock7107

Жыл бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Somali here, Somalia avoided the usage of the colors because of its long standing feud with Ethiopia over the Ogaden region

Great video (as always). Just one thing, at 4:38, "ethiopic language" is actually called Amharic, better to say that I think

@General.Knowledge

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And thanks for the correction

@KennyNGA

11 ай бұрын

​@@General.Knowledgeand Ethiopia got hundreds of languages

@Spacemongerr

11 ай бұрын

Not really - Amharic is the 2nd largest language of Ethiopia with 29% speaking it as their mother tongue. Oromo is the most spoken mother tongue, by 33% of the population. Next is Somali and Tigrinya spoken by 6% each. They (plus Afar) are all official languages of equal status. I think where you got confused is that Amharic is/used to be the lingua franca and used to be the language of education and therefore it has the most speakers since people learned it as 2nd language. However this is no longer really the case, since most regions now use their own language in primary education and use English for secondary and tertiary education.

@hanuasfaw2252

9 ай бұрын

We have different regional languages ​​in Ethiopia, but the national language of Ethiopia is Amharic.

@tesfayeyimam3700

8 ай бұрын

I think the 'Ethiopic' is an other name for the Older language ''Ge'ez'', so in my opinion this is not a problem. Plus, all the Amharic Alphabets(Feedels) come from the Ethiopic(Ge'ez) script ! ** I found this video very informative. Thanks for the deep explanation.

Togo's flag is quite exclusive; the placement of the horizontal green stripes and the square with the star in the centre at the top left are both very unique. However, the flag of the Republic of Congo is much more conventional and has a much nicer, cleaner appearance.

@ouwebrood497

11 ай бұрын

I consider Togo's flag one of the most beautiful of all national flags.

Wow, this is entertaining and interesting! 👏

I really like the flat of Congo. Very classy!! Great video, and so helpful to help understand the logic of flag choices in this area of Africa. Again, thank you for creating such interesting and helpful videos.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

Great video.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@General Knowledge 2:14 Hey there, Mauritania was a French colony and Western Sahara was a Spanish colony. I think there's an error.

South American Flags. There are the flags of countries liberated by Simon Bolivar, and there are the countries liberated by Jose de San Martin.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Good idea!

nice job

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Love General Knowledge from Vietnam ❤

2:14 Maurintania wasn't a spanish colony, but Occidental Sahara was.

In my mind the Pan-African colors are red, yellow, green, and black.... Anyways anyone else notice how most French flags use red, yellow, blue, and white? Not only in France itself but also places like New Orleans, Acadiana, and Acadia.

Are you planning on doing another video on Ecuador, Venezuela, and Columbia's flags?

can you make a video about the Balts? the last remaining ones being Lithuanians and Latvians that still have their own country intact

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Hello, very interesting. Why did you not include The Gambia when you did include Chad?

Is there going to be another contest to design flags? We want another one and I have some really good ideas.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Maybe! What could the topic be?

@DuleAres9189

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge like last time? Or flags from races and nations from SCI-FI culture, from games and movies.

ETHIOPIA 💪🇪🇹✊IS NOWHERE NEAR WEST AFRICA ❤🎉💪👈🇪🇹🇪🇹🎉🎉🇪🇹👈✊✊✊✊💪💪

Cape Verde is one of my favorite African countries flags.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

It's pretty cool! But to be honest I liked some of their other proposals best

@valhalla-tupiniquim

11 ай бұрын

​@@General.Knowledge , eu irei conhecê-las também.

@tkrokeid701

11 ай бұрын

FYI, General Knowledge - I'm surprised as a Portugese you did not mention that Cabo Verde changed its name in 2013 and just as Cote d'Ivoire does not want it's name translated. Thank you for your videos 👍🏼

@buda2851

11 ай бұрын

of course you do because your people colonized them.

The map you showed mixed up Mauritania as a Spanish colony and Western Sahara as a French one. It was the other way around.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

True! My mistake

🎶🎵They never got Ethiopia 🎶🎵🎶

Can you make a video about the countries that divided into two

Next: Scandinavians/nordic countries flag...?

@Alkalus

Жыл бұрын

Short answer: Denmark Long answer: General Knowledge kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2Z1mrinYpOplc4.html

@General.Knowledge

Жыл бұрын

I already did one a few years ago!

@KennyNGA

11 ай бұрын

Well that would be a short video

Can you please talk about the old flag of Sudan and Gabon and Rwanda

You are the guy that does the mini brands too??

2:12 Why does the map have Mauritania as spanish and Sahrawi as french?!?!?! And also cameroon and togo were much bigger

If the topic is flags that are similar to each other, then it's only a matter of time until we see a video about all the flags with our well-known Nordic cross both existing, fan-made and possibly coming in the future.

Could you talk about Ukr being west-east divided? for example. election results in 2004 and 2010

@t.c.4321

10 ай бұрын

Are you of Russian extraction by any chance ? Lol. Im not necessarily disagreeing with your point btw

@danilzashikhin3591

10 ай бұрын

@@t.c.4321 no comments

lithuania is definitely a west african country

@FF-le3ps

11 ай бұрын

So is burma and bolivia

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

​@@FF-le3ps what is burma?

Fun fact: The Helvetic Republic, a French puppet state in Switzerland that existed from 1798 to 1803 during the Napoleonic era, had a similar flag: a green - red - yellow horizontal tricolor.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

True! Do you know why they chose that flag?

@Voyagerch75

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Red and yellow represented Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, the first three cantons of Switzerland. Green symbolised freedom and the revolution (when several subject territories rebelled against the domination of a few cantons - with the help of the French, of course).

Make a video of why all the western flags are the same.

Hello there

What about Mauritania is a Pan African flag as well look it up also added the red recently

Do a video covering the African flags that have no red! They're few and far between, but they *are* interesting!

Thank you 🙏 green stands for wealth,health…yellow stands for religion,believe…red stands for war defending land…👍🎥👏👏👏

I don’t understand why you count a change from green to blue as still counting but a change from yellow to white as not counting.

Why is Mauritania not included? Its also Red green and yellow

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah! Totally missed it due to the different pattern, I didn't even associate the colours

As a Somali, this angers me to an insane degree

@ZM19.

11 ай бұрын

Jesus why? Not deep

@Spacemongerr

11 ай бұрын

Why?

Super interesting as always. What flag was used by the union of Senegal and Gambia when they called themselves Senegambia?

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Apparently a very strange looking mix of both countries' flags! A vertical tricolor or green-blue-red (with thin white lines in between each of those). Adding a green star in the center of the central blue band (terrible contrast).

Chad? Thought theirs looked like Romania?

We're getting one for every continent 👍

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Oceania might be difficult!

I remember when there was 1 view

Modern Ethiopia was before "Abyssania"

The Kingdom of The Homie is the coolest

Flags are Love, Flags are Life

@General.Knowledge

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@josueveguilla9069

Жыл бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Awesome. Thank you.

Benin could have such an epic and unique flag with that elephant, but sadly no.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Right? Sometimes I feel like countries let go of their historical symbols to appear "modern", but it takes away all character.

Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea aren't in west Africa but in central Africa

A little back story of the "Pan African" Movement, Pan Africanism wasnt a movement created in africa, it was created in the late 1800s by black americans and carribeans mostly black americans in the united states, the pan africanism colours is mostly used more by the black diaspora.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

This referring to the green-black-red scheme right?

@TreyMessiah95

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Yes Correct. The Black Diaspora advocates for pan africanism, maybe not so much the african continent but in recent days they are advocating for african unity and unity amongst the black diaspora in the western hemisphere especially those of us who are decendents of slaves, but yeah the colors is mostly for unity with continental africans and the diaspora in the americas

RBG= Red Black Green Pan African Flag by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1921 UNIA

I think the reason why these countries have similar flags is because of their culture.

@Sene_-wf2py

11 ай бұрын

What? But the cultures are so different from each other

I think the title should be "history of west African flag". The word "why" in the title is misguiding

Bolivian flag came first before Ethiopias flag ,inspired by the end colors of the rainbow

You left out Mauritania

I don't like to upset anyone, but I think a flag must be unique and simple. You need to look at a flag and say: - ok! It's that one. I can't take a quick look at these African countries and tell: it's Ghana or it's Cameroon. The same I say to Central American countries and Middle East countries as well. If I were an African ruler, I would ask my historians to study the origins of the country to look for other colors and symbols. And also let the citizens to decide.

Why isn't Mauritania included?

Some of the best flags are west African.

@shaahinuz

Жыл бұрын

I dont think so. In my opinion W.A. flags are very similar,boring and ugly.

@lorrainepaugh6955

Жыл бұрын

​I think the colors have a good combo accept c.a.r in my opinion.

A great majority of African flags that use the red gold green colour scheme are French.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

There's definitely more to it than the desire of 'honoring' Ethiopia. I think that was the first trigger for the early choices but then it became much of a regional trend for that area of Africa. With countries wanting to have similar flags to each other due to being neighbours but also sharing historical heritage together - namely that of French colonization.

Only chad countries use these colors

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

*literally*

Mauritania wasnt spanish

Ahh West Africa or should I say Reggae countries.

Inspired by ethiopia because Ethiopia was only free african country

@legobricksandvideogames

Жыл бұрын

True dat

@TreyMessiah95

Жыл бұрын

Well, not really true if we wanna be technically liberia and ethiopia wore the two non colonized countries in africa

ok

Comori and C.A.R. have very similar flags and you put C.A.R to are panafrican and Comors not panafrican also zimbabve use panafrican colors only with multiple stripes patern,,i only consider to panafrican flags trecolor patern flags ,only togo flag look panafrican even they have multiple stripes, panafrican colors are red,yelow,green,and black,,,paneuropean colors are blue,red,White,,,,,panarab colors are green,black,red,white,,pan east asian and southeastasian colors are blue and red with minor add of yelow and white elements,,panturkic colors are light blue and red ,comunist flags are red and yelow flag with red or yelow star,,islamic flags have cresent and star and green color,,most countries who share similar culture have similar flags,every flag have deep cultural and simbolic conection ,for example flag of montenegro use red field conecting to albanian flag cause most montenegrins are albanians who adopted serbian language, also use golden twoheded bird with open wings conecting montenegro with russian golden bird also with bizantin golden bird also with albanian black bird also with serbian white bird but serbian bird have close wings so montenegrin bird by opening wings flaying towords albania and russia far from serbia also montenegrin bird have shield with veneto lion conecting montenegro with veneto and italy,in past montenegrin bird was white like serbian bird but is changed to gold like russian in past montenegrin flag was treecolor like serbian red blue and white only with lighter blue to shade diference betwen serbian and montenegrin flag,similar to diferent betwen holand and looxemburg, now flag is red like albanians flag,montenegro by changing flag color and bird color worked on deserbification of montenegro,,similar afilations show most flags in world with elements of flag and changing flags,every country when choose flag wants to with flag show political and historic conections with another countries who used similar flag before ,kosovo used same patern like bosnia yelow map with White stars on blue background ,yelow map on blue back ground simbolized european union flag and white stars on blue back ground simbolized american flag element,bosnia and kosovo using that elemente thanking for liberation from serbia to U.S.A and E.U. ,,romania,andora,moldiva,tchad,use french flag with yelow iner showing cultural afilations to france ,,

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burkina faso really wanted to be a german colony

Ethiopia is the exact opposite.

Togo is the best🩷

France

Sorry but Chad flag simply isn't Pan African.

You forgot france,an African country but without the pan African colors

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The flag of Chad to the Pan-African flag is like the Bulgarian flag to the Pan-Slavic ones: Just switch blue with green

Ghana flag 🇬🇭 is the real pan African.

Disliked for going alphabetically. You're supposed to do Ghana after Ethiopia. Ghana is what influenced the other countries directly not ethiopia. Ghana was influenced by Ethiopia.

:)

Because they are all Bob Marley

Red for the blood of those who fought for the freedom Anyone getting this refrence?

First

Cameroon is not west Africa.

First and all, Everything you said about Cameroon 🇨🇲 is 80% wrong. I think you were not genuine about Cameroon or you have knowledge deficiency about Cameroon

East African Flags: Why are they all so similar?

Lack of creativity

@iiiooo1410

6 ай бұрын

cope

I think Togo has one of the better African flags personally

@justinarzola4584

11 ай бұрын

Ethiopia and Cameroon are my favorite to use the pan African flags. Overall though Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda are my favorite African flags.

@homoeconomicus5711

11 ай бұрын

​@@justinarzola4584 Are you Nigerian? I have never heard a non-Nigerian compliment the Nigerian flag.

@justinarzola4584

11 ай бұрын

@@homoeconomicus5711 no.

@homoeconomicus5711

11 ай бұрын

@@justinarzola4584 As a Nigeria, I appreciate you liking our flag.

Ethiopia is nowhere near west Africa.

@jonjon-wv2iv

10 ай бұрын

He said that in the video

All are the same also they have civil unrest ! Unsafe places to travel

pkk

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