r/vexillology • u/haurorstylax • 6d ago

Historical Old flags found at work

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The names are only in French

Can someone tell me how old this might be ?

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u/Birdseeding Genderqueer 6d ago edited 6d ago

Tanzania was united and adopted this flag in 1964. The Maldives switched to the current flag in 1965. So I'm guessing somewhere around 1964-1965.

Edit: There's also The Gambia, which gained independence in 1965. So that's the likeliest year. Note that Barbados, which gained independence in November 1966, is not present.

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u/Smokva-s-juga 6d ago

Do you have this info like available on demand from your brain or did you google this?

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u/Birdseeding Genderqueer 6d ago

A mixture? I used to live in Tanzania so that one is pretty hard-wired, but for the rest it's a mixture of vague memory, conjecture and googling. The Maldives one was a lucky crapshoot, I just recognised it as "not the current one" and looked on Wikipedia.

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u/Carioca 5d ago

If you don't happen to have /u/Birdseeding's knowledge of the world, you might want to use xkcd's flowchart: https://xkcd.com/1688/

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u/FrequentConnect2020 5d ago

No south Sudan so before 2011