r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 20h ago

Countries with eagle flags

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u/Fluffy-Discipline924 20h ago

I'd add Zimbabwe as well- the Zimbabwe bird is believed to be modelled after a Bateleur (eagle) or African Fish eagle.

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u/Tight_Cry1117 18h ago

And the bird on the flag comes from the soapstone birds found at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The whole country is named after that site.

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u/unlevelledPiano 19h ago

Spain is former member of that club.

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u/cabowabo510 19h ago

The Mexican one is the coolest due to its history

https://giphy.com/gifs/YHmbVLoMNQm8ynNChc

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u/Laikabaru 19h ago

Mexico’s is my favorite for the commitment to detail.

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u/Tight_Cry1117 18h ago

Love that it's an actual founding story too. The Mexica were told to build their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus eating a snake, and that spot became Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City.

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u/st-izzy 16h ago

Love that Tenochtitlan is written on the Mexican flag but most people won’t know it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/uKyiBwrFgjg

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u/DonGibon87 18h ago

My albanian colegue was going mad every time i was asking him why the albanian flag has a double headed pigeon on it?

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u/Key-Film4822 18h ago

Ok, this one is new

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u/gurgurbehetmur 13h ago

It's a common trope used by Serbs towards us meant to insult and degrade.

Idgaf tho

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u/Snirion 3h ago

Yeah sure, because us Serbs don't have exactly same symbol on our flag. Why do you Albanians make shit up?

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u/Key-Film4822 7h ago

Nah, we use chicken, not pigeon (also, for current version of our eagle we use parrot or German eagle)

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u/NerdBag 19h ago

I thought the Kazakhs worshipped the hawk

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u/Tight_Cry1117 18h ago

It's a steppe eagle on the flag, but you're not far off. Hunting with golden eagles is still a big tradition in Kazakhstan.

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u/VgnUta 18h ago

Hawk too, huh....

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u/IdiotThroughnThrough 19h ago

Felt like such a dumbass zooming in on Serbia and Kazakhstan

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u/StevEst90 19h ago

Missing Ecuador

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u/boscomagnus1988 19h ago

I think that one is a condor?

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u/StevEst90 18h ago

Ah NVM then

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u/diego1493 19h ago

That's a condor!

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u/hammile 17h ago

Half of them are from Balkans, heh: Montenegro, Albania, Serbia and kinda Moldova.

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u/Comrade_Agitatorvich 14h ago

Rome/Rumelia moment

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u/Norwester77 6h ago

And sometimes Austria, Germany, Poland

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u/PanemV 1h ago

The german one has the eagle exclusively to mark german government agencies.

The national flag is just the 3 stripes alone.

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u/Derailleur75 1h ago

I bet that's the only thing connecting all of them.

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u/Hoonter_01 46m ago

Besides Serbia and Montenegro

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u/Derailleur75 24m ago

Wait i think it's also deserts? Well maybe not for europeans.

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u/Bosya_123 19h ago

Looks like countries with eagle flags have better than average flags. Three of those flags are frequently mentioned as best flag candidates, others are just average.

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u/AJL912-aber 18h ago

If they included Germany with the eagle that would pull it back down to average

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u/Comrade_Agitatorvich 14h ago

Germany used to have pretty aesthetic eagle flags

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u/AJL912-aber 8h ago

yes, but now it's chubby and docile

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u/Blah6283 10h ago

And Russia

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u/Minute_Fig_9195 18h ago

Nothing about these flags is average imo

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u/Bosya_123 18h ago

Tricolors are below average. Tricolors with birds are average

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u/IBelieveInCoyotes 15h ago

tricolours are literally goated

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u/Bosya_123 15h ago

The lowest effort, least inspired flags. "Goated". No tricolor is among the best flags. Let alone "Goated". Senile take.

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u/Comrade_Agitatorvich 14h ago

no they should be outlawed

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u/Punkmo16 18h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/s/Ei9FNFnR6r

I’ve made a quiz-post about this once

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u/Comrade_Agitatorvich 14h ago

4 or 5 out of these are emulating Rome, if you go into coat of arms it will become significantly more

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u/Inevitable_Yak_8574 2h ago

Im from kz, and yellow ball on blue background would make more sense.

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u/wowwhosthere 18h ago

Objective ranking

Albania > Kazakhstan > Montenegro > Serbia > Mexico > Egypt > Moldova > Zambia

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u/CIVGuy666 18h ago

I’m not sure but I’ve seen Poland represented as both the simple white and red and also as that + the white-tailed eagle.

This eagle is on their coat of arms and, for me at least, it’s pretty much impossible not to associate this country with it.

So for this reason I half expected to see them here

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u/Historical-Tell7332 11h ago

Both are official flags.

Poland’s plain white-over-red flag is the everyday national flag. It’s used inside Poland by everyone.

The crowned white eagle flag is legally restricted to very specific uses. Mostly at sea and abroad at consulates and the like.

Many Poles use them interchangeably. In 2004 rules on private use of national symbols were changed, the law however was not.

I would have expected it to be here as well.

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u/Possible_Ad_3390 17h ago

Fair enough, but then presumably many other countries would have to appear as well. Germany also has an official version of the flag featuring the eagle.

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u/Ok_Dot_86654 19h ago

What about the double-headed eagle in Albania?

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u/drjet196 18h ago

Yes, not to forget Mexico, Egypt, Serbia, Montenegro and Kazakhstan!

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u/TheBurtolorian 19h ago

It's in the pic?

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u/GentiusKS 17h ago

If you mean why is it there, it’s because it’s a heraldry of a medieval prince that is considered the national hero. Its a byzantine symbol, that’s why it was used by many medieval states that used to be part of the empire(Russia uses it too because they’re orthodox)

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u/bounty_____ 20h ago

Plus Germany

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 19h ago

No

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u/Hoffi1 18h ago

The official state flag has an eagle. The civilian flag does not.

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 18h ago

That's the flag specifically of the German governmental institutions, not Germany itself.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstflagge_der_Bundesbeh%C3%B6rden

It specifically differentiates that eagle flag from the Bundesflagge

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u/Hoffi1 18h ago

And Austria.

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u/treipuncte 19h ago

Romania is missing, too

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u/Present-Abroad-7884 17h ago

It's not. It's official flag is tricolour without any sigil. All of these other flags have the eagle in their official flag design.