July 29, 2025
The flags of Haiti and Liechtenstein update a 10-year-old post
I was watching a rerun of Big Bang Theory, which was bad enough, but it happened to be an episode featuring the cringe-worthy show-within-a-show, Fun With Flags.
Well, wouldn’t you know it — they had an actual fun flag fact. At the 1936 Olympics, Haiti and Liechtenstein discovered they had the same flag: red on the bottom half, blue on the top half. They got around this with embellishments that have remained on their flags to this day — a coat of arms on Haiti’s flag and a crown on Liechtenstein’s flag.
That got me thinking about an article I posted over 10 years about countries that have similar flags but otherwise little in common. Haiti and Liechtenstein were missing! This called for an update, which I finished this morning.
How could I have missed that one? Without the coat of arms and the crown, those are two of the most similar national flags in the world.
I also took the opportunity to update the PNGs to SVGs, ensuring that the flags look sharp and clear at any size.