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Good Colours
Gambia
A+ 90 / 100<br>Great design and colour choice. Also represents the geography of the country (without being a map).
Good Colours
Pakistan
A 88 / 100<br>Best use of the star and crescent. Unfortunately, it depicts something astronomically impossible, namely the eclipse of the moon by a star. But perhaps it's not a star but a nuclear satellite-weapon aimed at India?
Simple
Japan
A 87 / 100<br>A classic. Simple, to the point.
Good Colours
Good Shape
Simple
Somalia
A 86 / 100<br>I think this one beats Vietname by just a little, owing to superior colour choice and a smaller star.
Simple
Turkey
A 85 / 100
South Africa
A 85 / 100<br>Colours a little eye-jarring, but overall very nice design.
Israel
A 85 / 100
Cuba
A 85 / 100
Good Shape
Simple
Switzerland
A 85 / 100
Simple
Viet Nam
A 85 / 100<br>Not quite as nice as Somalia.
Graven Images
Canada
A- 80 / 100<br>Hmm... that maple leaf? A difficult question, but I think not quite stylised enough.
Faroe Islands
A- 80 / 100<br>Nicest of the cross flags so popular in Scandinavia.
Good Shape
North Korea
A- 80 / 100<br>The star is very well placed with regard to the shape of the whole flag, but the overall design is just somehow lacking in zest.
Chile
A- 80 / 100
Good Colours
Simple
Botswana
B+ 79 / 100
Slovakia
B+ 79 / 100<br>Quite a nice flag. Definitely beats Solvenia and Czech Republic, both of which are much nicer places to visit.
Good Colours
Simple
Finland
B+ 76 / 100
Saint Kitts and Nevis
B+ 76 / 100
Good Colours
Syria
B+ 76 / 100
Puerto Rico
B+ 76 / 100
Iceland
B+ 75 / 100
Good Colours
Bad Tricolour
Gabon
B+ 75 / 100
Namibia
B+ 75 / 100
Good Shape
Qatar
B+ 75 / 100
Good Shape
Belgium
B+ 75 / 100
Simple
Austria
B+ 75 / 100
Simple
Denmark
B 74 / 100
Norway
B 74 / 100
Too many stars
Congo (formerly Zaire)
B 74 / 100<br>This is the one whose capital is Kinshasa.
United Arab Emirates
B 74 / 100
Plagiarism
Too busy
Liberia
B 74 / 100<br>Not very original, but at least an improvement on the US flag.
Djibouti
B 74 / 100
Bad Colours
Mauritania
B 73 / 100
Original
Madagascar
B 73 / 100
Too many stars
China
B 73 / 100
Bad Colours
Eyewatering
Simple
Morocco
B 72 / 100<br>Apart from the colours, this is a nice design, pentagram is a bit adolescent though.
Good Colours
Laos
B 71 / 100
Suriname
B 71 / 100
Good Shape
Simple
Monaco
B 70 / 100<br>Yawn... Nice shape, but nearly as boring as Libya.
Plagiarism
Bad Tricolour
Cote D'Ivoire
B 70 / 100
Romania
B 70 / 100
Plagiarism
Tunisia
B 70 / 100<br>Nice design, but this star and crescent features a particularly bad astronomical impossibility.
Eyewatering
Original
Greece
B 70 / 100<br>Impressively eyewatering, with only two colours.
Good Colours
Jamaica
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
Simple
Bahrain
B 70 / 100
Too busy
United Kingdom
B 70 / 100
Italy
B 70 / 100
Too many stars
Too busy
Solomon Islands
B 70 / 100
Hungary
B 70 / 100
Original
Simple
Libya
B 70 / 100<br>Did you even try?
Bad Tricolour
Nigeria
B 70 / 100
Luxembourg
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
Venezuela
B 70 / 100
France
B 70 / 100
Simple
Indonesia
B 70 / 100
Plagiarism
Senegal
B 70 / 100
Bad Colours
Tanzania, United Republic of
B 70 / 100
Sudan
B 70 / 100
The Other Congo
B 70 / 100<br>This is the one whose capital is not Kinshasa.
Eyewatering
Panama
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
Bad Tricolour
Sierra Leone
B 70 / 100
Plagiarism
Ghana
B 70 / 100
Eyewatering
Jordan
B 70 / 100
Yemen
B 70 / 100
Bad Tricolour
Cameroon
B 70 / 100
Bad Tricolour
Mali
B 70 / 100
Western Sahara
B 70 / 100
Dominican Republic
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
Simple
Haiti
B 70 / 100
Bad Colours
Malawi
B 70 / 100
Simple
Poland
B 70 / 100
Ireland
B 70 / 100
Czech Republic
B 70 / 100
Germany
B 70 / 100
Simple
Taiwan
B 70 / 100
Bad Colours
Togo
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
San Marino
B 70 / 100
Netherlands
B 70 / 100
Good Colours
Argentina
B 70 / 100
Bad Colours
Sweden
B- 69 / 100<br>Too garish. (Not what we expected from the Swedes!)
Plagiarism
Too many stars
Honduras
B- 68 / 100
Guinea-Bissau
B- 68 / 100
Micronesia, Federated States of
B- 66 / 100
Good Shape
Niger
B- 65 / 100
Original
Colombia
B- 65 / 100
Plagiarism
Bad Tricolour
Bolivia
B- 65 / 100
Sao Tome and Principe
B- 65 / 100<br>Black stars too adolescent.
Weapons
Corporate Logo
Angola
B- 65 / 100<br>Machete on flag nicely depicted but not wise idea.
Bad Colours
Original
Maldives
B- 65 / 100<br>That colour scheme is close to being hideous
Graven Images
Papua New Guinea
B- 65 / 100
Too busy
Malta
B- 65 / 100
Graven Images
Uruguay
B- 65 / 100<br>I like the frowning sun.
Bad Colours
Bad Shape
Latvia
B- 65 / 100
Too busy
India
B- 65 / 100
Bad Tricolour
Chad
B- 65 / 100
Bad Colours
Armenia
B- 65 / 100
Too busy
Burundi
B- 65 /...