Adam Jacot de Boinod’s Wide World of Flags
Adam Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
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- The blue part of the Azerbaijani flag stands for Turkishness
- The Swiss flag is the only national flag in the world that is square
- The Nepalese flag is the only national flag in the world that has five sides
- The flag of Lichtenstein had a crown put on it in 1937, to distinguish it from the flag of Haiti
Adam Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
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Picture Credit: By Hukamero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44570848
Picture Credit: By Hukamero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44570848
