 Maps! |
 Bad Colours |
 Too many stars |
 Too busy |
Tuvalu
D+ 49 / 100Tuvalu was previously on 50. However, I didn't realise the horrible truth about their flag. Those stars aren't in a random arrangement at all... they're in the shape of the islands that make up the country. It's a map! On the other hand much of Tuvalu will soon be underwater owing global warming, and they'll have to remove some of those stars.
 Writing! |
 Good Colours |
Too many stars |
Too busy |
Comoros
D+ 48 / 100
Writing! |
 Graven Images |
Equatorial Guinea
D+ 45 / 100
Graven Images |
Bhutan
D+ 45 / 100
 Corporate Logo |
Marshall Islands
D+ 45 / 100Looks like an airline logo.
Bad Colours |
Corporate Logo |
Too busy |
Kazakstan
D+ 45 / 100
Too busy |
Iran
D+ 45 / 100
Bad Colours |
Graven Images |
 Original |
Zambia
D+ 45 / 100Interesting layout doesn't redeem the bad colours on this one.
Maps! |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Christmas Island
D 42 / 100
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Kiribati
D 41 / 100
 Colonial Nonsense |
Anguilla
D 41 / 100
 Weapons |
Bad Colours |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Sri Lanka
D 41 / 100They probably thought it looked 'hip' in the 70s. Thanks to Ted & Sid Traikovski for drawing my attention to the sabre held by the strange animal.
Graven Images |
Too busy |
 Makes me nauseous |
Uganda
D 40 / 100
 Plagiarism |
Writing! |
 Bad Tricolour |
Rwanda
D 40 / 100Writing a big R on an overused tricolour spectacularly unoriginal.
Maps! |
Bad Colours |
Cyprus
D 40 / 100What can I say? The mother of all flags with maps on them.
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Turks and Caicos Islands
D 40 / 100
Bad Colours |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Dominica
D 40 / 100Do not put a picture of a parrot on your flag! (This goes for you too, Guatamala!)
 Bad Shape |
Graven Images |
 Hideous Colours |
Holy See (Vatican City State)
D 40 / 100
Writing! |
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Cayman Islands
D 40 / 100
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Montserrat
D 40 / 100Features a picture of a woman crucifying a harp.
Weapons |
Writing! |
Bad Colours |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Guatemala
D 40 / 100There are so many things wrong with this flag.
Too busy |
Portugal
D 40 / 100Portugal force this uninspired effort on their territories, too.
Writing! |
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
British Virgin Islands
D 40 / 100
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Fiji
D 40 / 100Features a picture of a lion rolling a cigarette (cf. Sri Lanka)
Writing! |
Bad Shape |
Too busy |
Paraguay
D 40 / 100Name of country written on the flag. Perhaps they have the excuse that their citizens can't remember the difference between Paraguay and Uruguay either.
Too many stars |
Too busy |
Grenada
D 40 / 100What is that thing on the left?
Bad Colours |
Colonial Nonsense |
Bermuda
D 40 / 100
Writing! |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Belize
D 40 / 100
Writing! |
Bad Colours |
Bad Shape |
Graven Images |
Nicaragua
D 40 / 100It is probably lucky for Nicaragua that the vile choice of colours in this flag prevents me from seeing what's written on it.
Hideous Colours |
Aruba
D 40 / 100Yeeech! Colours designed to cause pain.
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Saint Helena
D 40 / 100It could be just me, but it looks as though the ship is underwater.
Bad Colours |
Tajikistan
D 40 / 100
Bad Colours |
Bad Shape |
Too busy |
Brunei
D 40 / 100Appears to involve a moustache sprouting from a flagpole.
Bad Shape |
Too busy |
Makes me nauseous |
Zimbabwe
D 40 / 100Features a hawk sitting on a toilet.
Bad Colours |
Too busy |
Niue
D- 39 / 100Worst colour scheme of any flag derived from the Union Jack.
Bad Colours |
Too busy |
Belarus
D- 39 / 100
Graven Images |
American Samoa
D- 39 / 100Given the awfulness of other US designed flags, they have had a lucky escape.
Writing! |
Colonial Nonsense |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Falkland Islands
D- 38 / 100Worst UK colonial flag. Has a sheep on it. Actually, if you look closely, you can see that the sheep is riding on top of an island, which is riding on top of a ship. Also the stupid slogan is in English, and is a platitude.
 Eyewatering |
Too many stars |
Too busy |
Makes me nauseous |
Turkmenistan
D- 37 / 100Flag actually includes a Persian (sorry, Turkmen) carpet. Only flag to both make eyes water and induce vomiting.
Weapons |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Mozambique
D- 37 / 100Automatic weapons on a flag are especially bad. Appears to have been designed by a committee all of whom had stupid ideas for pictures of extra things to put on the flag.
Writing! |
Bad Colours |
Too busy |
El Salvador
D- 36 / 100Not only did they write the name of country on the flag, but its full mailing address, in a living language.
Writing! |
Too busy |
Brazil
D- 35 / 100Starmap original but atrocious. Worst flag of any independent nation state.
Writing! |
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Guam
F 20 / 100Name of country written on flag in ugly typeface. Notice that the M of Guam is larger than the other letters. I have given it this high a grade because it would actually make quite a nice tea towel.
Writing! |
Bad Colours |
Graven Images |
U.S. Virgin Islands
F 6 / 100Appears to have been painted by number. Another unspeakably horrible flag from a US territory.
Graven Images |
Too busy |
Northern Mariana Islands
F 2 / 100Appears to have been constructed from clip art. Truly awful.