Flags fly outside the UN for all member nations. What is special about the order in which they fly?
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They fly in alphabetical order. There are 191 nations starting with Afghanistan and ending with Zimbabwe.
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I think because the colour of flag was designed with the meaning behind the colour.\n\nLike my country flag, it's red and white.\nRed = brave\nWhite = holy/clean\n\nSo, the founder of the country design the flag because they use the characteristics and meanigs of the colour to describe the country and to express the spirit of the country. It's random, yes we know that.
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Flags are necessary to represent the prestige of the country 90% of the country flags have a meaning behind the image. It usually explains geometric qualities or political divisions or the ethnicity. So flags basically represent the people of each country in one image. So it is important to have a flag
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My guess is that some countries are administratively part of a larger unit. \n\nI'll give you the example I'm familiar with: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are all individual members of FIFA, however, they are all part of the United Kingdom and that is the body which has UN membership.\n\nI don't know which other countries this would apply to.
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Sorry to relate this to you but your flag will not always be there, \nits already happened in the UK. \nsome local governments are refusing to fly the union jack, local councils have also started to ban Christmas lights and decorations. \nin some of the towns and villages across the UK. \nLocal governments are now Listening to the immigrant wishes rather than to the indigenous people. \nOnce it starts there will be no stopping it.  \nyou WILL one day lose the fight for your flag, \nand then, what's next.
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The twelve yellow stars on a blue field were officially adopted as the symbol of the European Community on 26 May 1986. \n\nIncreasing the number of stars every time new countries join would be silly.\n\nThere were six original founding countries.\n\nIt's all here:\nhttp://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/eu-eun.html#his
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Why do individual US states have their own flags when they are not known as countries?\n\nI honestly dont have an educated answer on this, but part of me thinks its because in the past they were seperate countries, but thats probably me talking crap (i dont know much history). \n\nMostly, why do you have to be a country to have a flag? Flags are used for all sorts of things. They are seperate parts of a 'United' country and the flags (with the exception of wales) put together do sort of make the United Jack.
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United Nations is a WORLD WIDE ORGANIZATION (That is its not restricted 2 a particular CONTINENT).....whereas NATO is restricted to EUROPEON NATIONS.....it was basically started to check the RUSSIAN MENANCE in EASTERN EUROPE.....Oh yaa it does a lot of PEACE KEEPING....and the major difference is that NATO is basically a MILITARY ORGANIZATION....whereas the UN is not only MILITARY, but also has TRADE, HUMANITARIAN and other added facets to it....
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As long as a  flag is lighted at night it can be flown 24/7 , we lower the flag to half staff to show respect for our fallen hero's and deceased friends and relatives...No flag should be flown during inclement weather that may cause damage to it. And you should always salute the flag before you lower it and after raising it by placing your right hand over your heart....
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Half-staff or half-mast describes the act of flying a flag approximately halfway up a flagpole (though anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of the way up the flagpole is acceptable). This is done in many countries as a symbol of respect, mourning, or distress.\n\nWhen hoisting a flag that is to be displayed at half-staff, it should be hoisted to full staff for an instant, then lowered to half-staff. Likewise when it is lowered at the end of the day, it is to be hoisted to full staff for an instant, and then lowered.\n\nThe original flag 'etiquette' was to fly the flag at one flag's depth from the top of the hoist. With the larger flags on shorter hoists on public buildings the practice of 'half-mast' has now commonly become to fly the flag at true 'half-mast' regardless of the size of the flag or hoist.
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each ring represents one of the five continents involved in the olympics at the time of its creation.\nalso, all the countries involved could make their flag out of the colors used for the rings and thier white background.
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There are five interlocking rings coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red.\n\nThese five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition.\n\nThe rings are with a WHITE background on the Olympic flag, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem\n\nThough the Baron de Coubertin obviously considered the rings and colours as two independent characteristics, and even though the IOC explicitly states no ring represents a specific continent, still some people list matches. These are some such lists. (Since users of each list claim that list to be the explanation in general use, they are ordered here alphabetically according to the arbitrary, somewhat explanatory titles.)\n\nA map, of sorts\n\n* Blue - Americas\n* Yellow - Africa\n* Black - Europe\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Asia\n\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Blue ocean\n\n* Blue - Oceania\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Europe\n* Red - Americas\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Greek flag\n\n* Blue - Europe\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Americas\n\nThis is the colours continents meanings who choose an IOC organism: The Association of National Olympic Committees who englobes to all 204 National Olympic Committee like the colours symbology for its emblems
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The EU flag is the symbol not only of the European Union but also of Europe's unity and identity in a wider sense. The circle of gold stars represents solidarity and harmony between the peoples of Europe.\nThe number of stars has nothing to do with the number of Member States. There are twelve stars because the number twelve is traditionally the symbol of perfection, completeness and unity. The flag therefore remains unchanged regardless of EU enlargements.\nThe history of the flag goes back to 1955. At that time, the European Union existed only in the form of the European Coal and Steel Community, with just six Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg). But a separate body with a larger membership - the Council of Europe - had been set up several years earlier and was busy defending human rights and promoting European culture.\nThe Council of Europe was considering what symbol to adopt for its own use. After much discussion, the present design was adopted - a circle of twelve gold stars on a blue background. In various traditions, twelve is a symbolic number representing perfection. It is also, of course, the number of months in a year and the number of hours shown on a clock face. The circle is, among other things, a symbol of unity. So the European flag was born, representing the ideal of unity among the peoples of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe then encouraged other European institutions to adopt the same flag and, in 1983, the European Parliament took up the call. Finally, in 1985, the flag was adopted by all EU heads of State and government as the official emblem of the European Union - which, in those days, was called the European Communities.\nAll European institutions have been using it since the beginning of 1986. »The European flag is the only emblem of the European Commission - the EU's executive arm. Other EU institutions and bodies use an emblem of their own in addition to the European flag. \nActually, the EU has 25 members (Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Germay, Ireland, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Cyprus and Malta) and 5 candidate countries (Romania and Bulgaria, which will be effective members from January 2007, Macedonia, Croatia and Turkey).
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Because the Union Jack is the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain which consists of four constituent entities of which are England, Scotland, Wales together with Northern Ireland. If you combine the flags of England, Scotland and Ireland, it kinda becomes the Union Jack. The St. Georges Cross on the other hand is the national flag of England hence the flag is used to solely represent England. Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland have their own national flags and if all of these countries were to use the Union Jack to represent their independent nation then there I guess there would be some conflict there.
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There are currently 6 national flags that incorporate eagles, excluding regional, presidential, sub-national, etc:\n\nAlbania\nAmerican Samoa\nMexico\nMoldova\nU.S. Virgin Islands\nZambia
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The number five refers to the five continents. He chose six colors (white, red, yellow, green, blue and black) because each flag of the countries that were part of the Olympic movement contain at least one of those colors. The Paris Congress in 1914 was so taken with the design that they adopted it as the official flag of the Olympic movement. The new flag made its debut at the 1920 games in Antwerp, Belgium. It was here that the rings became the official Olympic symbol.\n\n The Olympic flag measures 2.06 m long, 60 cm high and is completely white with five circles in the center. The top three circles, from left to right, are blue, black and red. The bottom two circles, from left to right, are yellow and green. The white background symbolizes peace and truth. The five rings represent the five continents of the world, but a prevalent post-facto interpretation has tied specific colors to specific continents:\nOlympic Flag\n\n• Blue representing Europe\n• Black representing Africa\n• Red representing America\n• Yellow representing Asia\n• Green representing Australia (Oceania):-)
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I am unaware of any presidential proclamation to fly the U.S. Flag at half staff today.  However, Section 7 of Title 4 of the United States codes give state governors the authority to order U.S. Flags to be lowered for appropriate occasions.  This week, for example, Michigan flew flags at half staff to honor Michigan residents who had died in Iraq.\n\nIf you go to the link below, you can see a number of situations where flags will be flown at half staff.  This week was the third anniversary of the war in Iraq, so I'm sure it has to honor those who have fallen.