Romania
French tricolor with yellow swapped out for white? Not so fast!
The colors actually come from the two principalities that originally formed the country – red and blue for Moldavia and red and yellow for Wallachia. Also, the stripes were originally horizontal.
Chad
Now, this is the one where they took the tricolore and threw in a little yellow.
And in that regard, Chad is a little different from most other post-colonial African countries. These typically went with some version of the pan-African colors of red, green, and yellow. Here, for example, is what Mali did with the French flag:
Another popular pan-African adornment was a black star. You can find one of those on the flags of Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome & Principe. So perhaps we could simply add one of these to the existing Chadian flag to help distinguish it a little:
Moldova
Moldova is basically the part of Romania that the Russians took over after WWII. When the Soviet Union subsequently fell apart, Moldova became its own country instead of simply merging with Romania proper.
Given all that, I might give Moldova a pass here. That and the big coat of arms the Moldovans threw on there.
Andorra
Andorra is a tiny country of 180 square miles and 70,000 people, stuck between France and Spain.
And that last fact helps explain the Andorran flag. It’s basically the French tricolor (again) with yellow added to reflect the red and yellow colors of Spain.
Interestingly, Andorra once flew a flag with the same colors, but horizontal stripes:
– and no one else ever did! Let’s do this one instead.
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