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Contents 1 Why Flag Shape 2 Only 2 non-rectangular flags in the whole world? 3 First 100 years of Ohio's Existance - State Flag? 4 Colors Wrong

[edit] Why Flag Shape

Any explanation of why it's the only state flag of a pennant type?--Carl

This should be easy to find. I recently read it was supposed to resemble a cavalry flag.--208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Amusingly, I read the cavalry flag relation on this article. (see second paragraph)--208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Only 2 non-rectangular flags in the whole world?

Is there any proof of this fact? This is a bold claim as there are probably hundreds of thousands of flags in use by the world's governments (Think of all the county flags in the US alone). A proof would require a researcher investigating the flags of every country, territory, region, state, county, etc...

This sounds like the work of an over-zealous editor and I vote for this to be stricken from this article and Flag of Nepal.Asteron ノレツァ 05:23, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

This criticism does not apply to Flag of Nepal: that page claims that Nepal's is the only non-rectangular national flag, and although it is uncertain exactly how many countries there are, and exactly what their flags are, it is pretty certain (and well established) that Nepal's is the only non-rectangular national flag. --Taejo 08:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In addition, Flag of Nepal says that there are four non-rectangular flags including Flag of Switzerland and Flag of Vatican City. Some rewording is in order, at the very least. Dismas|^(talk) 14:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Squares are a type of rectangle, so the flags of Switzerland and the Vatican City are indeed rectangular. User:Angr 15:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First 100 years of Ohio's Existance - State Flag?

Was there any semblance of a state flag from 1803 - 1902? It's strange to see a state exist for 100 years without any flag.

Yeah, I came here ready to pose the same question. Gold Stur 22:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colors Wrong

The colors are definitely wrong. The shades of blue and red seem to correspond with those of the flag of the United States of America, a drastically darker shade. Consider the picture on the page as evidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)