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The World's Flags Given Letter Grades
After browsing a friends Atlas one day, Josh Parsons decided that many flags of the world were of varying design quality. He set out to score every national flag, assigning each a letter grade. You can browse the results of his study alphabetically by country name, or by letter grade given.So what flag scored the highest? Gambia. "Great design and colour choice," says Josh. "Also represents the geography of the country (without being a map)." The Northern Mariana Islands (pictured) rounds out the bottom of the barrell with an overall score of 2 out of 100. "[It] appears to have been constructed from clip art. Truly awful."
Check out Josh's website to see how your country scored.
Filed under: Learning, Gambia, United States
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
marilyn Jan 18th 2007 5:12PM
I love this site, especially his comments, like the one on the flag of Fiji: "Features a picture of a lion rolling a cigarette." Did you know that the study of flags is called vexillology?
Justin Jan 18th 2007 5:29PM
I didn't know that. They have words for everything. Everything I tell ya!
dave Jan 19th 2007 12:34AM
ok first this guy has too much time on his hands second what he decides as a negitive mark againsa flag is just weird so what if is got an engraven inage or a colonial meaning seriously
infojunkie Jan 27th 2007 8:45PM
I thought this was hilarious, and it's on my list of del.icio.us links now. Thanks!