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# Vexillology

Vexillology (/ˌvɛksɪˈlɒlədʒi/) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general.

## Books

* [The World Encyclopedia of Flags](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15932248-the-world-encyclopedia-of-flags) - [Albert Znamierowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Znamierowski) (2013)
* [Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America](https://www.amazon.com/Flag-Nation-Symbolism-Europe-America/dp/0415458544), collection of research papers about the symbolism of flags.
* [Complete Flags of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22495388-complete-flags-of-the-world) - DK (2014)
* [Flags through the ages and across the world](https://archive.org/details/FLAGSThroughtTheAgesAndAcrossTheWorld) - [Whitney Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Smith) (1975)
* [Flags of The World](https://www.amazon.com/Flags-World-M-C-Barraclough/dp/0723227977)
* [Alfred Znamierowski](https://www.google.co.id/search?tbm=bks\&q=inauthor:%22Alfred+Znamierowski%22)
* [Good Flag Bad Flag](https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag/)

## Journal

* [Raven](https://nava.org/raven-a-journal-of-vexillology/)
* [Flag Research Quarterly](https://nava.org/flag-research-quarterly/)
* [Flags in Context: A Discussion of Design, Genre, and Aesthetics by Perry Dane](https://nava.org/digital-library/raven/Raven_v15_2008_p043-080.pdf)

## Web

* [r/vexillology](https://old.reddit.com/r/vexillology/)
* [FIAV](https://fiav.org/)
* [Fun with Flags](https://publish.uwo.ca/~cwils92/funwithflags/index.html)
* [NAVA](https://nava.org/)
* [Flag Waver](https://loderunner.github.io/flagwaver/)
* [Flag of the World](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/)
* [Flag Locker](https://flaglocker.org/page/contests)
* [Vexilla Mundi](https://www.vexilla-mundi.com/)
* [All Flags World](https://www.all-flags-world.com/)

## Dataset

* [Flags](https://www.flags.net/)
* [Wikipedia Flag](https://data.world/pbi/country-flag-database-from-wikipedia)
* [UCI Dataset](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Flags)
* [Country Flags](https://hjnilsson.github.io/country-flags/) [GitHub](https://github.com/hjnilsson/country-flags)
* [Country Flags](https://cristiroma.github.io/countries/) [GitHub](https://github.com/cristiroma/countries)
* [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/skrzym/world-flags)
* [Wikipedia List of Flags](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lists_of_flags)

## Flag Design

* [Nava](https://nava.org/navanews/Commission-Report-Final-US.pdf)
* [Good Flag Bad Flag](https://nava.org/digital-library/design/GFBF_English.pdf)


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