Nepal is an outlier when it comes to flag shape, as it stands out from the norm (rather “two triangles stacked on top of each other”) since according to them: the flag represents Himalaya Mountains & both religions: Hinduism & Buddhism, also the red triangular flag has been a Hindu symbol of victory since the writing of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
That is in contrast to most countries flags as a majority are rectangular in their shape (no matter where from USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, Poland, etc.). I mean, why are most flags rectangle by default rather than being unique on using another shape? I mean, Nepal is the only country where a flag is designed from another shape that differs from a rectangle.
Very much this
Edit also whoever made that image couldn’t write “Finland”
It’s the land of the Finn’s.
This makes me irrationally mad. I want to think the ratio is some subtle reference to a date or holds some symbolic meaning. But deep down we all know it’s just what some random flag maker from hundreds of years ago thought looked good and then was copied and bastardized without much thought.
Edit: looking into it, it’s even worse than that. The USA uses 10:19 only by executive order in certain contexts but otherwise uses a bunch of random ratios. Some countries tried to approximate the golden ratio but the measurement drifted and they never bothered to fix it.
Haha, agreed.
Vexillologist can be… vexing.
I like to think they all kept increasing flag size because of the others being bigger
Given the age the nations, I’d say that’s not entirely unlikely. We Finns did do ours last, afaik.
Wikimedia Commons has flags organized by aspect ratio. Though the top link seems broken.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_with_an_aspect_ratio_of_3:2