Frequently asked flags

This page is about flags that are frequently identified on this sub in ‘Identify’ flair posts. Before asking for an identification, you might like to check whether the flag you’ve seen is one of the ones here first. Or you might just find the stats interesting… but take them with a little grain of salt. The numbers don't include posts removed for being obvious jokes, and might be missing some removed for other reasons. And no guarantees on how consistent the categorisation is - still working on it.

January 2022 – October 2022

From January 2022 to October 2022, there were 5056 flags or groups of flags posted for identification, at least 731 not getting any particularly clear answer before they were recorded for this report. Around 322 of the others were flags of nations or other territories that you’ll find in ISO 3166-1, or a flag emoji list. The following flags were identified 10 or more times in that period:

40 versions of thin blue line flags were also posted, both the original and ones based on the stars and stripes or other flags, with or without a red (and green/yellow/white/etc) line as well. Also, maritime signal flags featured in at least 23 posts. The flags identified can also be roughly grouped in categories, the most popular ones being:

Other frequent requests

There are a few other flags which haven’t explicitly made the tables about, but we noticed had been frequently requested over a longer time frame:

• Flag of Amsterdam
• Imperial German war flag/ensign, often used as a symbol of fascistic ideologies by those who cannot or don't want to fly flags from Nazi Germany.
• Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Ukrainian ultranationalist flag which has become more globally recognized due to its use by Ukrainians during the Russian invasion.
• Flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
• Progress Pride flag