Fly Your Flag Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Dazzatron on 02-Mar-10. Waypoint GA1839

Took a drive to the Buddhist Temple Third Avenue Marsden Queensland to take some photos. The middle flag is of Cambodia.

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Found this flag of Scotland flying in Primrose Sands. We had parked nearby to locate two GC caches. TFTL Using for Cacheopoly games.

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Well, there's a South Korea flag logged but with no GPS or geocacher in the image so... here's one WITH a geocacher IN Korea. It was taken inside Seodawmun Independence Park in Seoul.



I was in Korea to explore. My adventures took me inside North Korea albeit 1m haha, yes I've stood in North Korea via a tour inside the DMZ. I indulged in the amazing Korean cuisine and their craft beer culture. I hiked South Korea's highest mountain, Hallasan, down on Jeju Island. I had many great experiences in this part of world. Did you know there is part of the Berlin Wall in Seoul, used as a monument. The monument is intended to express the hope that one day South and North Korea can be reunited. So many cool things inside Korea but that will do for this post.
Thanks for triggering interesting memories and thanks for the cache

S41 26.635 E147 08.142 GLEN DHU PRIMARY SCHOOL LAUNCESTON (Flag of El Salvador)

See my previous note. all is not lost. When I was teaching at Glen Dhu Primary School there were a number of students from various countries around the world. When they arrived a special school assembly was held and the students were presented with a flag from their country. Every day as well as the Australian Flag, the Aboriginal Flag and the School Flag a flag from another country was flown. On this occasion the two standing students were being presented with the Iraq flag but as this has already been claimed I claim the flag of El Salvador. In the photo is a student, the Mayor of Launceston and the El Salvador Flag.

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S41 26.635 E147 08.142 GLEN DHU PRIMARY SCHOOL LAUNCESTON (Flag of Bosnia)

When I was teaching at Glen Dhu Primary School there were a number of students from various countries around the world. When they arrived a special school assembly was held and the students were presented with a flag from their country. Every day as well as the Australian Flag, The Aboriginal Flag a flog from another country was flown. On this occasion the two standing students were being presented with the Iraq flag but as this has already been claimed I claim the flag of Bosnia which is the flag with the row of white stars behind the Iraq students.

Oops I now notice that Bosnia has been claimed before so I change this to a note.

This is special to us as we walked the Swiss Alps and managed to stand with either a foot or an arm in Italy, Switzerland and France.
Thanks Dazzatron

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Panama
Spotted this flag flying on Panamanian registered coal carrier. Corona Youthful on it's way up the mouth of the Hunter River to bag a hold of coal. It was supported by three tug boats, one on the port side and two on starboard presumably due to the off shore wind coming across the port bow.
Anyways, we saw the flag flying and remembered this locationless. Thanks Dazzatron!
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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I recently attended the Albanian Festival at the Shepparton Showgrounds and they had lots of Albanian Flags everywhere so I snapped this one especially for this Locationless.
Thanks for this oe Dazzatron

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I found the Ethiopian current flag in the background at the Red Centre Event
Its the Green, yellow and red one in the back corner

My son collects flags. His choice for this locationless is The Dominican Republic. We visited there on a cruise earlier this year. A fantastic idea!

Photo taken at home in Launceston Tasmania.

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Kosovo Flag
Spotted this flag among many others in the parade of flags along the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. There were so many to choose from, so I thought that Kosovo deserved some individual attention!
Thanks for the locationless cache Dazzatron!
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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Flag of Tibet (and Tibetan Prayer Flags)
Leura Mall
Leura, NSW

The Dalai Lama stayed in Leura (Fairmont Resort) for five days, while giving a retreat. He also gave a public talk in Katoomba, which I attended with Mrs. pjmpjm.

So our local 'flag person' put out these flags on Leura Mall!

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My father now has a bit of a flag collection. The residents of Fairway Rise look forward to seeing what he puts up each day. Today when I went to pick up the kids, he had Lichtenstein up the pole. TFTC

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Tanzania

Tanzanian flag hanging rather limp outside the Marine Sciences building in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

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Peru

Here's the Peruvian flag flying high over parliament in Lima.

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Switzerland

I hope we're not doubling up here but I couldn't see the Swiss flag in previous logs.

Here we are at Jungfraujoch, Swizterland.

Thanks Dazzatrom

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Flag of the State of Texas, the 'Lone Star' State . . .

Not what you expect to find flying over in Leura Mall, in the Blue Mountains of NSW!

Texas was of course briefly an independent country before it became part of the United States, and then seceded for several years as part of the Confederate States of America.

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whilst in Japan visiting my sons In Laws in Fukuoka we are now up in Tokoyo and after visiting the Yasakuni Shrine I came across this Embassy of Benin.

This is the flag of Kiribati.
Flying in Leura Mall, this place is a treasure trove of flags as they are changed on a regular basis.
Very blurry GPS on the side of the photo!

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This is the flag of Hong Kong.
Flying in Leura Mall, this place is a treasure trove of flags as they are changed on a regular basis.
Very blurry GPS on the side of the photo!

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Here are two flags - if you ignore the one in the foreground (Spain) the one in the background I believe is Cote d Ivorian
see http://www.flags.net/CDIV.htm#CDIV0001
I beleive this is Ivory Coast

TFTC

GCA 632 - 6472. One ofmany national flags next to Lake Burley Griffen in Canberra.

As Turkey hasn't been 'found' before, and as I have visited there twice, I chose the Turkish Flag.

TFTC !!

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Flag of the Republic of Macedonia
Leura Mall
Leura, NSW

This flag puzzled me at first. I hadn't realised that in 1995 the Republic of Macedonia had adopted a new flag to replace the orginal 'Verina Sun' flag. This came after a log dispute with neighbouring Greece about the ancient symbol. (I guess both countries considered themselves to be the 'true' Macedonia. But you can read about all this at Wikipedia.)

So -- surprise, surprise -- this unusual flag turned up flying on one of the many flagpoles in Leura, right next to the flag of Norfolk Island! A good find . . .

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Whilst in Adelaide seeing Dad we went to Hahndorf and tourised around. Parked and there in front of our car was another Rav 4 with this flag from Laos.
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Brazil. Good at soccer. Another one of dozens of flags strung up in theatre.Thanks Acko

Found Norway, well not actually, just found all these flags set up for Olympics. Some nurses are BIG into decoration for anything. But I must give them they are imaginative.

The owner of this house often displays flags from different countries on days of significance for that particular country. Today he had a Belgium flag flying out the front (well, drooped really, as there was no wind). July 21 is a national holiday commemorating the day Leopold I took his oath as the first King of Belgium on July 21, 1831.

The State Flag of California (U. S. A.)
'The Bear Flag'
19th Avenue, at Winston Street
San Francisco, CA
U. S. A.

Could resist logging this one, while on a trip to the US. Photo taken from my rental car as I waited at a traffic light!

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Flag of Cuba
Leura Mall & Railway Parade
Leura, NSW

Another great new flag!

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Old Flag of Myanmar
Leura Mall
Leura, NSW

I didn't recognise this flag at first! But Myanmar (Burma) changed its flag in 2010 and this is the old one -- looking (at least, at a distance) deceptively like the flag of the Republic of China . . .

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Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Leura Mall & Railway Parade
Leura, NSW

I was very pleased to see this particular flag flying on Leura Mall, after one of the regular 'flag changes' by the owner of Megalong Books.

We have a lot of Chinese visitors here in the Blue Mountains, but I would have thought the majority would be from either the Peoples' Republic or Hong Kong.

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Iraqi Flag Flying Over Leura, NSW

An unexpected flag in the Blue Mountains.

Already logged with a pin and GC, but thought a real-life flying flag would be nice . . .

Will post this one as a 'note' only . . .

I am in the military and have loved military history forever. So when I found this site that has T-shirts with military themes I was in----- a very happy place (he he he)
Any I have one that has an Italian Air Force Aces pre 1943 (when they were the baddies.
But their planes were stunningly beautiful (to a RAAFie).
Anyways the Italian flag. This is a version of the Italian WWII flag.
Thanks Acko

this is the flag of the Seychelles: a truly beautiful country. We sailed there on a cruise and the ship flies the countries flag as she approaches the country and while she stays docked. We sadly only had a day here but every moment the people we met were marvelous and friendly. We have returned to Mauritius and hopefully one day come back here for a longish visit,
Thanks for this great idea for a cache.
Acko

Flag of Hawaii
Leura Mall
Leura, NSW

You don't often see the Hawaiian flag flying around here (in the Blue Mountains of NSW), so I hope I'm not stretching this Locationless category too much by including it. But I think the same flag was used when Hawaii was an independent kingdom.

I immediately noticed this pennant, because it's well known that the flag of Hawaii is the only US state flag that features the Union Jack, a holdover from when Hawaii was a British Protectorate.

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went to Mauritius for a couple of weeks had a great time. She who must be obeyed and I cached toured and rested.
We stayed on the north west coast and the airport is on the south east side. Its such a friendly island and their is so much you can do, never a moments peace.

this is the flag of the Maldives. We visited it in 2009 whilst on a cruise. Had a wonderful time. Whilst there we ferried over to the airport island and went on a Seaplane flight. Now that was cool.
thanks Acko

my mate from work bought this back from Bosnia Herzegovina, He and his family were their during the war and thankfully for Aussie we now have another beautiful Aussie family.
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can't claim this one as Mexico already has been and The Confederate States of America ain't a real country anymore but I rekon neither countries ever thought they would help Aussies in the Simpson Desert Aussie. They stood as proud protectors as Warning flags in the sand dunes. It were fun and here they are on top of Big Red. the 1st Big dune from the east side of the desert.

The National Flag of Iceland

This completes the Scandinavian countries for this GCA locationless cache . . .

I'm a real 'vexology' buff so couldn't resist this one, when it appeared on Leura Mall, in Leura, NSW -- in the Blue Mountains.

Am now on the lookout for more obscure flags . . .

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A second locationless at the same co-ords, although this is not the Aussie flag, I feel it should be logged here as the flag of the traditional owners of Aus - the Aboriginal people.
The flag is flying at "the block" - the top of the infamous Eveleigh St in Redfern.

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German Democratic Republic (DDR)

Another flag I couldn't resist -- the former East Germany!

I found this flag in the Leuralla Toy & Railway Museum at Leura, NSW.

I used to listen to the English language shortwave radio broadcasts of Radio Berlin International in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Flag of the Isle of Man

I usually don't log this kind of locationless cache more than once, but how often do you see this unique flag?

It was flying today at the top of Leura Mall, in Leura, NSW (Blue Mountains).

Took me a while to get a good shot.

My hand and fingerprints and wedding ring stand in for a GPSr to prove it was really me who took the picture!

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The National Flag of Botswana.

Managed to snap it at the embassy in Canberra. Once of the adventures of living in Canberra I guess.

TFTL

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While visiting Norfolk Island we saw the Norfolk Island flag flying on a number of occasions. We snapped this one over the entrance to the Old Military Barracks at Kingston. Altthough closely tied to Australia mainly for economic reasons Norfolk Islanders are fiercely independent.

National Flag of Denmark
Leura Mall
Leura, NSW

This picturesque Blue Mountains town (my adopted hometown) has a traditional of flying a number of national flags along the main part of Leura Mall where all the shops and restaurants and cafes are located.

I completely forgot about this locationless cache -- odd because I'm a great lover of flags!

Today I went out and check which flags were up. I think the 'Megalong' bookshop guy is in charge of the flags. All were taken -- even the flag from Cameroon -- apart from two. One was wrapped around the pole and not catching any breeze, so I went into the bookshop to ask. Unfortunately, the flag guy wasn't working that day.

But the other flag was easy -- it was Danish. My wife's mother is Danish so I got out my iPhone camera and waited for a breeze. Didn't take long!

I was surprised that this one was untaken -- Sweden and Finland were snapped up.

And the red-and-white colours were especially appropriate because today is Valentine's Day . . .

What a great idea for a locationless cache!

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While driving thru Footscray today I cam across this painted flag out the front of an Ethiopian restaurant.

The restaurant is called Abesha and serves authentic Ethiopian food.

It is the flag of Ethiopia used up until 1996 when the flag changed slightly however this is still quite commonly used.

Footscray has a diverse population of Africans whom have fled many years of war and oppression.

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We were heading home from Wallaroo this morning when I spotted the flag of Papua New Guinea flying in someones front yard. A quick check of the flags logged so far, a quick check of my spreadsheet of flags of all sovereign nations, and all seemed good for us to log this one!

We returned a few hours later with GPSr and camera, but had to wait until the wind would pick up enough to unfurl the flag. We grabbed a few shots, but felt we were loitering, so hopefully the attached pic is good enough.

Thanks Dazzatron.

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Found it (08:18) - Tongan Flag near the Harbour in Vava'u.

Saw this after a quck cache raid this morning

While heading back to harbour to wait for the non-caching family component spotted this fluttering in the breeze..

Unfortunately couldn't get myself & GPS in the picture as I was by myself at this stage

Nothing like a bit of caching while on holidays...

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Called in to the Parklea markets again for some fruit and veges and saw this Cameroon flag on some bunting.

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The malaysian Flag was hanging in the Parklea markets when I dropped in to get some vegetables. A very busy place but noticed there were several empty stalls around the place.

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I could have had a field day here as I found a "Harmony Corner" at Liverpool Girls High School where I was teaching today. There must have been about 50 flags flying... so I took our closest unclaimed neighbour, PNG! Before anyone gets any ideas, I have blurred out all the other flags in the photo ...and unless you are on business, you wont be able to access the school grounds haha Mine all Mine!

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The Sri Lankan flag found at the Parklea markets.
A great place for browsing for cache contents and food.

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It's a shame I haven't checked locationless for a while as I have been doing a bit of work for Liverpool Council recently. In the foyer of their admin building were flags from all over the world and it would have been quite easy to grab an unusual one.

Unfortunately someone broke in and burnt the building down on the weekend causing at least $20 million worth of damage. So the flags are gone. But at least the radio link we put up survived (though may be somewhat cooked - it's still a crime scene so we can't get in and retrieve it).

This flag is universal and signifies that which we all long for; Peace throughout the world. Peoples of all countries fly this flag in the hope that one day The World will fly this flag as its ensign, knowing "PEACE" has ultimately been achieved.
Was on my way to do TP52515 and found this banner fluttering in the wind and thought how appropriate. TFTC and cheers OldSaint.

Saw this locationless and said to myself wow I know how to get this one. The only problem was when I got to where all the embrassies are in Canberra, the wind wasnt blowing so had to walk around trying to find any flag that was blowing. Finally I found The kingdom of Cambodia. Have included a picture of what the flag looks like. Like I said there was not much wind TFTC

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The flag on the far left is from Niue. It is located in a triangle between the Samoas, the Cook Islands and Tonga. It is in a free association with New Zealand. In 2003, it became the first "Wifi Nation" providing free wireless internet all over the island.
These flags pictured are all located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag on the centre right is from the Republic of Palau, a small set of islands to the North of PNG. Another country supplying a police contigent to the RAMSI effort.
All the flags shown here are located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag on the centre left is from Samoa. Another pacific country coming to the aid of the Solomon Islands as a part of RAMSI.
All the flags here are located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag on the far right is from Tuvalu.
Tuvalu are supplying a police contigent to the RAMSI effort in the Solomon Islands. All the flags pictured here are located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag second from the right is the flag of the Cook Islands. All flags pictured here are located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag on the left is from the Marshall Islands. All these flags are located in the GBR mess hall.

The flag on the far right is the flag of The Solomon Islands. The flags pictured here are all located in the GBR mess hall.

Afghanistan - the first in the International Flag Display in Canberra - there are flags from every country (96) with a displomatic presence in Australia, so there are plenty more opportunities for others to log this locationless cache.

I find it odd that some people are logging more than one find against locationless caches - particularly when there are only 195 different countries in the world, it doesn't give that many folk a chance to get this cache if some log multiple times. Just a thought to share the love

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The Algerian Flag was found on the Grand Hotel in Hunter St, Sydney

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Uraguyan Flag. On the Grand Hotel in Hunter St, Sydney with other world flags promoting the World Soccer Cup.

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Nigerian Flag, at the corner of Hunter and Pitt St, Sydney

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Argentina. This flag was spotted with others on a hotel promoting the up-coming World Cup starting tonight.

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Found the Welsh flag flying with other flags in Wallaroo while out doing some caching... It is in a park opposite the nautical museum.
Was surprised and lucky it hasn't been logged before..
Thanks Dazzatron for the cache...

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Being in Canberra I could be mean and complete this locationless all by myself, in fact I could claim 7 countries in this one photo. However I'll be nice and only lay claim to the Philippines (centre back of the photo)

Sth Korean Flag.
Taken at this years ANZAC Parade in George St, Sydney.

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Serbian Flag. Taken at the 2010 ANZAC parade in George St, Sydney

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The Maltese flag photographed during this years ANZAC parade down George St.

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Embassy of Mexico. Found this on our tour around Yarralumla today

Egypt! We spotted this flag on a tour of the Embassy Area of Canberra. Made for a nice photo.

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Here is the Indian Flag as flown at the High Commission of India in Canberra.

Last time I visited was to get a visa for my trip.

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I found the Nepalese flag during a lunch break in North Sydney. It was at the Nepalese Consular-Generals Office. The receptionist was very friendly and kindly allowed me to photograph a small version of their flag that was on the reception desk.

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As soon as I Drove in the camp site at the Oz Mega Event I said to myself I hope someone thinks of this cache when the see all those flags up the front and great to see a heap of you did.

The Dutch flag was found on the corner of Walker and Mount St, Nth Sydney at a pub called the Corner

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SWEDEN - also at the Wagga Oz-Mega event.
(Blue with yellow cross), next to the confederate flag.
I really wanted to log the EUREKA flag, but I guess it does not count as it is not an official flag of Oz.

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Although an earlier entry has shown the Vietnamese flag it wasn't logged as a find. I saw this and others on top of the Edcliff Shopping Centre today on the way home from locating caches in the Eastern suburbs

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The Lebanese flag was on top of the Edgecliff Shopping Centre

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Saw the Spanish Flag on top of the Edgecliff Shopping Centre along with other flags.

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HA Thought Id be the first to log one of these flags from the mega event... but the shifters are just too quick. so ive chosen anoothr flag from the stage at the mega event in Wagga...
This is the flag of Scotlaand.....FREEEEDOOOMMM!( it's the blue with the white diagonal cross)
There are still a few others that have not been logged.

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The flag of Finland. Spotted on the stage at the OZ Mega Event in Wagga Wagga.
We didn't expect to find that no one had logged this cache yet with all the flags on the stage. There are many flags so to be fair to others we decided to log only one.
Our GPS is sitting on the stage, a bit difficult to see though.

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And I thought that I was the only one with this idea, but I see I was beaten by Shifter Brains AND the GeoMonkeys.

Soooo, I'll pick the Croatian flag on the left of stage.

Found this Greek Flag on the way to a bus stop.
It is outside an area which I think is going to have a huge Greek church built on it.

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Found the geocoin - see pics.

There have story about Iraq see below.

1991–2004 (ratio: 2:3)On 13 January 1991, the flag was changed again by Flag Law No. 6 of 1991. Saddam Hussein decreed to place the Takbir (the words Allaahu Akbar (God is Great)) between the stars. The words on the flag were in Saddam's own handwriting, and many interpreted the change as an attempt to garner wartime support from previously outlawed religious Iraqi leaders, to stop the disrespect of the Iraqi flag in Kuwait, and to garner support from the Islamic world in the period immediately preceding[citation needed] the first Gulf War, as he attempted to distance his government from its previous secularism which had kept Islamic fighters from being willing to fight for his regime.

Thanks Dazz - good idea about flag.

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Fiji - the place I'd like to be!
We went to Fiji last year on a family holiday and geo-son brought back this flag! Geo-son has a tb on it's way to Fiji and he would like to go back again for his birthday!

Spotted this flag on the back of a 4 wheel drive as I was travelling home from work. I had to wait until we had stopped at the lights and zoom the camera right out to get the shot as the driver had moved to another lane. Got back to work today and checked out what country the flag represented. CZECH REPUBLIC
Sorry the photo isn't better.

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The Italian flag was flying outside the Mario Bros pizza house in Crows Nest, Sydney.

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The Chinese Flag.
I saw this flag this morning wrapped around the pole and couldn't make it out so I went back this afternoon to check it out.
The owners had unravelled it so I was able to photograph it.
The location is at the Greenwich Inn Motel at St Leonards and is at the same place as the French flag I logged earlier.

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The French flag hanging with the Sth African flag that has already been logged outside the Greenwich Inn Motel in St Leonards, Sydney.

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Great job everyone wasn't expecting such a number in the first 2 weeks at this rate we will fill the map in no time.

Located the Swedish flag on the back of a Volvo less than 10 metres from the office window. Guaranteed of finding a few of these in a University carpark!

Found the German flag flying from the German Arms Hotel in the Main Street of Hahndorf. Thanks for the cache Dazzatron.

Found this Japanese flag on a key ring I picked up in a cache yesterday. I don't have co-ords for the key ring as it will envariably move. Have included my GPS as required.

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We decided to get in early with our St Patrick Day's Decorations and snapped this photo of Ireland's Flag.

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The Singapore Flag flies over the Stamford Grand at North Ryde.
Saw this while driving home today.

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You said to be creative, so here is my Canadian Flag flying its colours on a map of Canada in my home. This flag is a trackable geocoin dedicated to flags around the world