0141-143 Indonesia Flag of country FOTW84

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Sent: 31.10.2016

Recieved: 18.11.2016

Travel time  18 days

Sender Mia Salim from Indonesia

Sent: 15.09.2016

Recieved: 18.11.2016

Travel time  64 days

Sender Fida from Indonesia

Sent: 14.07.2017

Recieved: 20.09.2017

Travel time  67 days

Sender Mia Salim from Indonesia, with special postcrossing stamps

The Flag of Indonesia is a simple bicolour with two equal horizontal bands, red (top) and white (bottom) with an overall ratio of 2:3. It was introduced and hoisted in public at the Indonesian Declaration of Independence on 17 August 1945 in Pegangsaan Timur street in Jakarta, and again when the Dutch formally transferred sovereignty on 17 August 1950. The design of the flag has remained unchanged since.

The flag of Indonesia is graphically identical to the Flag of Monaco, with a slight difference only in the ratio of its dimensions.

The Naval Jack of Indonesia is reserved for sole use by the Indonesian Navy. It flies from the mast of every active Indonesian war ship. The design of the jack is described as nine alternating stripes of red and white. It is nicknamed Ular-ular Perang (War Pennant or literally "War Snakes"), probably due to the stripes' design. The naval jack dates to the age of Majapahit Empire. This empire, renowned for its great maritime strength, flew similar jacks on its vessels.

0139-140 Iceland Flag of country FOTW83

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Sent: 17.05.2017

Received: 22.05.2017

Travel time: 5 days

Sender Jurgen from Switzerland

. This Europa 2012 Iceland stamp was one of the most interesting stamps in that year. More details about the stamp you can find here: http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/iceland-2012.html

Sent: 30.05.2017

Received: 08.06.2017

Travel time: 9 days

Sender Rosmarie from Switzerland

0138 Hungary Flag of country FOTW82

Sent: 29.12.2016

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Sender Krisztina from Hungary

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The nation of Hungary originated from the national freedom movement from before 1848, which culminated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The revolution was not only in opposition against the monarchy but also the Habsburg Empire, as well as to form an independent republic. Accordingly, the Hungarian flag features a tricolour element, which is based upon the French flag, as a reflection of the ideas of the French revolution; while red, white, and green are colours derived from the historical Hungarian coat of arms, which have essentially remained in the same form since the mid-15th century, with exception to some minor differences, and were marshalled from arms that first appeared in the late 12th and early 13th century as arms of the Árpáds, Hungary's founding dynasty. The stripes are horizontal rather than vertical to prevent confusion with the Italian flag, which had also been designed after the French flag. According to other data, the recent form of the Hungarian tricolour had been already used from 1608 at the coronation of Mathias II of Hungary.

Folklore of the romantic period attributed the colours to virtues: red for strength, white for faithfulness and green for hope. Alternatively, red for the blood spilled for the fatherland, white for freedom and green for the land, for the pastures of Hungary. The new constitution, which took effect on 1 January 2012, makes the ex-post interpretation mentioned first official (in the semi-official translation : strength (erő), fidelity (hűség) and hope (remény).

0136-137 Grenada Flag of country FOTW81

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Sent: 28.08.2017

Received 08.09.2017

Travel time 11 days 

Sender Reinelle from Trinidad and Tobago

Sent: 04.01.2018

Received: 11.01.2018

Travel time 7 days

Sender Valery from Rep Dominicana

The national flag of Grenada was adopted upon independence from the United Kingdom, 7 February 1974. The flag was designed by Anthony C. George of Soubise in Saint Andrew Parish. The civil ensign is the same, except for a 1:2 rather than 3:5 ratio. The naval ensign is based on the British White Ensign, with this flag in the canton (and extending into the cross).

The six stars in the red border represent the country's six parishes, with the middle star, encircled by a red disk, representing Carriacou and Petite Martinique. The symbol in the hoist represents a clove of nutmeg, one of the principal crops of Grenada. It also represents a link to Grenada's former name, which was the "Isle of Spice". The red colour of the flag stands for courage and vitality, gold for wisdom and warmth, and green for vegetation and agriculture.

0135 Greenland Flag of country FOTW80

Sent: 20.09.2016

Received: 03.10.2016

Travel time : 13 days

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The flag of Greenland was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen. It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of center. The top half of the disk is red, the bottom half is white. The entire flag measures 18 by 12 parts; each stripe measures 6 parts; the disk is 8 parts in diameter, horizontally offset by 7 parts from the hoist to the center of the circle, and vertically centered.

Its local name in the Greenlandic language is Erfalasorput, which means "our flag". The term Aappalaartoq (meaning "the red") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark (Dannebrog). Today, Greenlanders display both the Erfalasorput and the Dannebrog often side-by-side. The flag of Greenland is the only national flag of a Nordic country or territory without a Nordic Cross.

0134 Greece Flag of country FOTW79

Sent: 20.07.2017

Received: 03.08.2017

Travel time: 14 days

Sender myself from Hersonissos, Crete - from my holiday :)

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Wiki: The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "sky-blue-white" or the "blue-white" (Greek: Γαλανόλευκη or Κυανόλευκη), officially recognized by Greece as one of its national symbols, is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of Greece and Cyprus. The blazon of the flag is Azure, four bars Argent; on a canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second. The official flag ratio is 2:3. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since the late 1960s. It was officially adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus on 13 January 1822.

According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Ελευθερία" and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος".  The nine stripes are also said to represent the letters of the word "freedom" (Greek: ελευθερία). There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks).

Blue and white have been interpreted as symbolizing the colors of the famed Greek sky and sea.

0133 Ghana Flag of country FOTW78

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Sent: 12.03.2016

Received 18.04.2017

Travel time: 37 days

Sender Lara (Belgium)

Sent: 17.02.2017
Received 05.04.2017
Travel time 47 days
Sender Linda Halabi (Ghana)

The national flag of Ghana was designed and adopted in 1957 and was flown until 1962, and then reinstated in 1966. It consists of the Pan-African colours of red, yellow, and green, in horizontal stripes, with a black five-pointed star in the center of the gold stripe. The Ghanaian flag was the second African flag after the flag of the Ethiopian Empire to feature these colours. The flag's design influenced that of the flag of Guinea-Bissau (1973). It was designed by Theodosia Okoh.

The red represents the blood of those who died in the country's struggle for independence from the Great Britain, the gold represents the mineral wealth of the country, the green symbolizes the country's rich forests and natural wealth, and the black star is the symbol of African emancipation. The black star was adopted from the flag of the Black Star Line, a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey that operated from 1919 to 1922. It is where the Ghana national football team draw their nickname, the Black Stars, from.