Flag Days Of The World

Last modified: 2003-10-31 by peter hans van den muijzenberg
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FOTW Flag of the Month

by Mark Sensen

This month's flag is the flag of the former Mali Federation. It demonstrates how exact the study of flags can be. Recently, members of FOTW tried to determine whether the Kanaga should be as pictured here, or whether its joints should be more rounded, as The World Encyclopedia of Flags has it.

Contents

• Flag days of the World
• What are Flag Days?
• Contributing
• Flag of the Month

Flag days

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December
  
  
• Other Flagging Days

See also

• Flag Days per nation.
• Adoption Dates of Flags

Flag Days of the World

Flag days of the World is a list of flag days observed by countries throughout the world. It was started as a separate website in 1998 by Edward Mooney jr. After he cared for it for five years, in 2003 this website was incorporated into FOTW with his permission.

What are flag days?

• A "Flag Day" is a day when the adoption of a flag is celebrated.
  For example: On 11 january when Norfolk Island celebrates Flag Proclamation Day.
• But "Flag Day" is also short for "Flagging Day" or "Flag-flying Day"; a day when people collectively fly their flags or when government personel is instructed to fly flags from governmental buildings.
  For example: On 14 july in France flags are flown to observe Bastille Day.

To distinguish between these two categories, "real" Flag Days are listed together with the appropriate flag, where other flag days are listed as text only.

Contributing to Flag Days of the World

If you want to contribute flag days to the list, just mail them to the editor: Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg phm@fotw.net. You can use the same address to suggest a Flag of the Month. Even if we may not always follow your suggestions, feel free to send them.