The original idea by u/Canjira was a weekly poll with 15 entries and three available votes - I'm organizing this weeks contest because he needs some personal time. (Our thoughts are with Canjira at this time) This week's vote has 25 quality entries, so now 5 votes are available for gifting towards good designs. (the current flag is shown twice - light and dark versions - the votes for it will be combined.
There were three general entries this week which did not gain at least 10 up-votes. Sorry people. Also not getting in, were a good handful of multi versions of these same designs. (only really need to see the best of them) Just about all the designs here have full descriptions on our sub-reddit. Most are very obvious from just their visuals. Next week we will feature designs for Massachusetts - entries starting from tomorrow. Link for this vote logging website: https://strawpoll.com/kjn1D991eyQ

Prompt: Design a flag for these North American Alternate Nations

As is tradition in April, we are embracing alternate history, this year in North America

We have the following ELEVEN countries for you to design flags for

Republic of Bennenhalistan by u/Xerimapperr

Kalaallit Nunaat by u/BIGMAJI

Texicali Republic by u/Chera_Empire

The Arctic Federation of Isalleca by u/Choice-File5800

The Illini Confederation by u/Cassinia_

The People’s Union of North Cascadia by u/VertigoOne

The Duchy of Alyaska by u/Ghost_Of_Davido

The Confederated Protectorate of Wabashia by u/VertigoOne

The Commonwealth of Concordia by u/AstoundingVerve

The Kingdom of Hawaii by u/Miguk4Real

The Republic of Dakota by u/bribridude130

PLEASE READ THE CONTEST RULES

DO NOT show your design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.

No more than TWO flag designs per entrant. You can either do two designs for one nation, or one design EACH for two different nations.

Submission deadline is Saturday 18th April 2026. Voting will begin on Sunday 19th April and end on Monday 27th April.

If you want your flag for The Republic of Dakota or The Commonwealth of Concordia to be included in the ones voted on, click here or on any of the other links immediately below..

To submit a design for Hawaii, Wabashia, or Illini, click here

Click anywhere on this link to enter a flag representing North Cascadia, Alyaska, or Isalleca

To take part in the contest with a design for Bennenhalistan, Kalaallit Nunaat, or Texicali, use this link

/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!

Prompt: Worker's History Month

May 1st is recognised as May Day - or International Workers Day - and the month of May is known in the United States as Labour History Month. This month we asked designers to make a flag for International Worker’s History Month.

We approved 49 entries.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Full Results Page

The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).

Contest Voting Link

Prompt: Alternate North America

As is tradition in April, we are embracing alternate history, this year in North America. This year people submitted 11 alternate histories for North America.

Contest Top Entries

We had 61 submissions, here's the top 20 and best in each category:

Annual Top 20

Full annual standings and past winners

Congrats to /u/Miguk4Real on their 1st win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!

Contest Prompt Link

Mississippi Flag Redesign

Prompt: As you've probably heard, Mississippi is retiring its flag and is in search of a new one. We're putting the contest up a little early this month because we're getting a lot of submissions to the sub, and want to give people the opportunity to submit them to the contest. If you've been here a while, you may recall our July 2015 contest to redesign a state flag with confederate symbolism, which had several Mississippi flags do well that you can look to for inspiration.

We approved 196 entries.

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions, and upvote the flags you like!
• Vote on a good flag, not just a good image.
• This thread is in contest mode, meaning scores are hidden and flags are presented in random order.
• The thread is locked for comments for 2 days. Afterwards, you may comment on the flags, but do not comment on the thread itself.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, anyone may claim their flags and we will announce the top 20 and update the yearly standings.
• Voting will close on the 25th.

Thread went up just a little bit late, voting will still close at the normal time.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!

Prompt: Alternate North America

As is tradition in April, we are embracing alternate history, this year in North America. This year people submitted 11 alternate histories for North America.

We approved 61 entries in the following categories:

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Contest Prompt Link

Flag for a Season

Prompt: Summer has just started in the Northern Hemisphere! Channel your inner Vivaldi and make a flag for one of the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. You are also welcome to make a flag for either Tropical Season, Wet or Dry.

We approved 166 entries in the following categories:

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions!
• Upvote the flags you like.
• Remember, you're voting on a good flag, not just a good image. You may actually get a chance to purchase the top flag when all is said and done.
• The thread is shown in contest mode until the voting is over, so the flags are presented in random order, and comments on flags are hidden by default.
• You may comment on the flags but do not comment on the thread itself, these comments will be removed.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, submitters are encouraged to claim their flags and we will announce the top 20, as well as update the yearly standings.

Schedule

• Submissions are due on the 10th at 11:59 PM ET
• Voting begins shortly after submissions close and ends on the 20th

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Contest Prompt Link

A Flag for a UNESCO Heritage Site

Prompt: Design a flag for any current UNESCO world heritage site that does not have a flag. Sites like Venice and Amsterdam already have flags, and so wouldn't be an option for this contest.

We approved 195 entries from across these categories:

A few special notes for this contest:

• With 1,073 different UNESCO heritage sites, continent was the only meaningful category here.
• Reddit has been acting odd with contest threads with many comments lately, possibly due to the redesign. Some flags may not show up on any given page load, and we've submitted a request to /r/bugs. It's at random, so no flag should be disadvantaged over the course of the contest, but do try to visit more than once so you can see them all, especially as 195 is considerably more entries than we usually get.
• A few people misspelled their name or deleted their account this month, and so their entries are not included. Make sure you spell your name right!

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions, and upvote the flags you like!
• Vote on a good flag, not just a good image.
• This thread is in contest mode, meaning scores are hidden and flags are presented in random order.
• You may comment on the flags, but do not comment on the thread itself.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, anyone may claim their flags and we will announce the top 20 and update the yearly standings.

Schedule

Slightly different schedule this month with the new format, we'll return to the regular schedule in February.

• Submissions are due on the 10th at 11:59 PM ET
• Voting begins shortly after submissions close and ends on the 20th at 11:59 PM ET

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Prompt: Design a flag for a global megacity in the style of Liechtensteiner Municipality

This month, we’re taking the biggest in the world through the lens of the smallest.

We want you to make a flag for any of the thirty largest cities in the world by population (according to a list found on wikipedia), and make it in the style used by a part of one of the smallest countries in the world.

Specifically one of the following cities:

• Bangalore, India — 14,700,000

• Bangkok, Thailand — 21,800,000

• Beijing, China — 21,500,000

• Buenos Aires, Argentina — 16,800,000

• Cairo, Egypt — 22,800,000

• Chengdu, China — 18,100,000

• Delhi, India — 35,700,000

• Dhaka, Bangladesh — 23,100,000

• Guangzhou, China — 72,700,000

• Istanbul, Turkey — 16,000,000

• Jakarta, Indonesia — 29,500,000

• Johannesburg, South Africa — 14,800,000

• Karachi, Pakistan — 21,000,000

• Kinshasa, DR Congo — 16,300,000

• Kolkata, India — 17,900,000

• Lagos, Nigeria — 21,300,000

• London, United Kingdom — 15,100,000

• Los Angeles, United States — 17,100,000

• Manila, Philippines — 27,800,000

• Mexico City, Mexico — 25,400,000

• Moscow, Russia — 18,800,000

• Mumbai, India — 27,600,000

• New York City, United States — 21,800,000

• Osaka, Japan — 17,700,000

• São Paulo, Brazil — 22,600,000

• Seoul, South Korea — 25,200,000

• Shanghai, China — 41,600,000

• Tehran, Iran — 16,800,000

• Tokyo, Japan — 41,200,000

• Xiamen, China — 15,400,000

And using the style of these kinds of banners

• Balzers, Liechtenstein

• Eschen, Liechtenstein

• Gamprin, Liechtenstein

So this style would be a vertical banner, often with a single square element at the top and a longer tail element underneath.

Because this is going to be very different to the normal way we do things, we’ll need you to have a more specific size to the flags.

Please keep your flags between width 500 pixels and height 2500 pixels and width 1000 pixels to height 6000.

Again, thats a pixel ratio of 500 x 2500 to 1000 x 6000 Width x Height.

PLEASE Remember the basics - a maximum of ONLY two submissions per entrant. TWO. No more. You can do two designs for one city, or one design for two cites. NO MORE.

PLEASE READ THE CONTEST RULES

DO NOT show your design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.

Because this has been asked several times, let’s be clear - you will see all approved entries between 19-27th of October - this is the window in which you can vote on them.

If you want your flag to be included in the ones voted on, click here or on any of the other links immediately below.. We’re making this all as clear as possible.

Submissions for the flags for Moscow, Tokyo, or London in Liechtensteiner region style go here

To enter the contest with flags for Istanbul, Los Angeles, or Osaka in styles used by places like Gamprin click here

If you have designed a flag for Kinshasa, Sao Paulo, or Bangkok, in the style used by Eschen in Liechtenstein and you want people to vote for your design, use this web page. The voting will begin on Sunday 19th October and end on Monday 27th October

Participating in this contest about designing a flag for Chengdu, New York, or Cairo, done in the style of Balzers of the micronation of Liechtenstein is made possible by the digital location accessed via this link

Deadline for submissions is Saturday 18th October 2025

Prompt: Design a flag for US/Canada/Jamaican Black History Month

February is black history month in the following countries.

Canada

Jamaica

The United States

This month, we want you to make a flag that symbolises black history month for each of those countries. To be clear, each country is a category.

PLEASE Remember the basic rules - a maximum of ONLY two submissions per entrant. TWO. No more. You can do two designs for one country’s black history month, or one design for two different countries. NO MORE.

PLEASE READ THE CONTEST RULES

DO NOT show your design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.

Submission deadline is Wednesday 18th February 2026. Voting will begin on Thursday 19th February and end on Friday 27th February.

If you want your flag to be included in the ones voted on, click here or on any of the other links immediately below..

To submit a flag to represent America’s Black History Month, Click here

Click anywhere on this link to enter a flag representing Canada’s Black History Month

To take part in the contest with a design for Jamaica's Black History Month, use this link

Full Results Page

The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).

Contest Voting Link

Prompt: Worker's History Month

May 1st is recognised as May Day - or International Workers Day - and the month of May is known in the United States as Labour History Month. This month we asked designers to make a flag for International Worker’s History Month.

We approved 49 entries.

Contest Top Entries

We had 49 submissions, here's the top 20:

Annual Top 20

Full annual standings and past winners

Congrats to /u/Vermicelli-Thick on their 2nd win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!

Full Results Page

The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).

Contest Voting Link

Prompt: Black History Month

This month, we want you to make a flag that symbolises black history month for Canada, Jamaica, or the United States.

Contest Top Entries

We had 59 submissions, here's the top 20 and best in each category:

Annual Top 20

Full annual standings and past winners

Congrats to /u/HistoricalTrip5247 on their 1st win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our new contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!

Prompt: Design a flag celebrating an International Worker’s History Month

May 1st is recognised as May Day - or International Workers Day - and the month of May is known in the United States as Labour History Month.

So what if the month of May was International Worker’s History Month?

What flag would represent such a thing?

We want you to show us!

PLEASE READ THE CONTEST RULES

DO NOT show your design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.

No more than TWO flag designs per entrant.

Submission deadline is Monday 18th May 2026. Voting will begin on Tuesday 19th May 2026 and end on Wednesday 27th May.

If you want to submit a flag to represent the history of the Labour movement, click here..

To submit a design for a flag celebrating the history of workers and their rights, click here

Click anywhere on this link to enter a flag representing a hypothetical workers history month

To take part in the contest, click her to enter your design

/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!

Prompt: Black History Month

This month, we want you to make a flag that symbolises black history month for Canada, Jamaica, or the United States.

We approved 59 entries in the following categories:

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Full Results Page

The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).

Contest Voting Link

Prompt: Design a flag for a global megacity in the style of Liechtensteiner Municipality

This month, we asked designers to make a flag for any of the 30 largest cities in the world, in the style of the long, vertical flags of Liechtenstein Balzers, Eschen, or Gamprin.

Contest Top Entries

We had 80 submissions, here's the top 20 and best in each category:

Annual Top 20

Full annual standings and past winners

Congrats to /u/TacoMadeOfCoco on their 1st win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our new contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!

Contest Prompt Link

Flag for a Bird

Prompt: This contest is for the birds! In August, 2011 we asked you to design an animal flag, won by /u/thefrek's pigeon flag. In May, 2015 we asked you to design a flag for a taxon, won by /u/jabask's peacock flag. Both contests were won by birds, so use them as inspiration for this contest, in which you will design a flag for any species of bird. Good luck as you design a flag for a flock, a banner for a bevy, or a pennant for a parliament!

We approved 151 entries in the following categories:

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions!
• Upvote the flags you like.
• Remember, you're voting on a good flag, not just a good image. You may actually get a chance to purchase the top flag when all is said and done.
• The thread is shown in contest mode until the voting is over, so the flags are presented in random order, and comments on flags are hidden by default.
• You may comment on the flags but do not comment on the thread itself, these comments will be removed.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, submitters are encouraged to claim their flags and we will announce the top 20, as well as update the yearly standings.

Schedule

• Submissions are due on the 10th at 11:59 PM ET
• Voting begins shortly after submissions close and ends on the 20th

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Contest Prompt Link

Red and White Redesigns

Prompt: Several flags are mostly or entirely composed of red and white stripes, and are easily confused. Examples:

• Indonesia
• Poland
• Monaco
• Singapore
• Latvia
• Austria
• Peru

Your task is to take a flag composed entirely or nearly entirely of red and white stripes, and redesign it. As an added catch your submissions may not use the colors red or white.

We approved 187 entries in the following categories:

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions, and upvote the flags you like!
• Vote on a good flag, not just a good image.
• This thread is in contest mode, meaning scores are hidden and flags are presented in random order.
• The thread is locked for comments for 2 days. Afterwards, you may comment on the flags, but do not comment on the thread itself.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, anyone may claim their flags and we will announce the top 20 and update the yearly standings.
• Voting will close on the 25th.

Two special notes on this contest:

• 192 submissions is quite a few more than we normally get! Reddit gets a little odd in contest threads as it approaches 200 entries, please modmail /r/vexillology if you don't see your submissions.
• This was a more specific contest than usual, and we had a lot more rejections than usual for not following the prompt. There were some edge cases that could have been approved or removed. Some were approved, but you are welcome to factor in how well they satisfied the prompt into your voting criterion.

Update: A few flags were removed after the contest started.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Contest Prompt Link

Flag for a Conquered Earth

Prompt: Description: Earth has fallen. After a several millenia long run of innovation, exploration, and fighting each other, we no longer control our destiny. Humanity now serves under the yoke of:

• Subterranean humanoid Martians
• Sentient robot overlords
• An intergalactic federation of insectoids

Humans are largely a curiosity to their new leaders, and are kept alive mainly to harvest their:

• Prowess in agriculture and mining raw goods
• Abundance of cheap entertainment and media
• Utility as affordable off-planet tech support

Being conquered hasn't been all bad though, for the new leaders have brought with them:

• A solution for cancers and hunger
• The end of intra-human conflict
• Free pizza on Tuesdays

In seeking to define its new identity under foreign rule, you are tasked with designing a flag for:

• The Human Resistance, an underground cell to cast off the yoke of tyranny
• The Planetary Emissaries, a group of human leaders that try to negotiate with their new masters as best they can
• The Assimilation Movement, a grassroots effort that loves the new overlords and wants humanity to be a part of them

Treat this like a Mad Libs. In each of these four choices, choose exactly one of three options to get your full prompt. You can use any information from the resulting prompt to help design the flag, but feel no need to use all. While we usually allow flags in the spirit of the contest, there's been demand for a more prescribed contest, so try to stick to these choices. Be creative with your flag descriptions as well!

We approved 108 entries in the following categories:

Note: We didn't get to approvals until late this month, so we were a bit lenient on the rule requiring attribution for public domain images. For future contests you must properly attribute if you are using public domain art, and non-public domain art that is not yours is not allowed.

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions!
• Upvote the flags you like.
• Remember, you're voting on a good flag, not just a good image. You may actually get a chance to purchase the top flag when all is said and done.
• The thread is shown in contest mode until the voting is over, so the flags are presented in random order, and comments on flags are hidden by default.
• You may comment on the flags but do not comment on the thread itself, these comments will be removed.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, submitters are encouraged to claim their flags and we will announce the top 20, as well as update the yearly standings.

Schedule

• Submissions are due on the 10th at 11:59 PM ET
• Voting begins shortly after submissions close and ends on the 20th

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Contest Prompt Link

Redesign a US State "Seal on a Bedsheet" Flag

Prompt: Many US State flags are considered a "Seal on a Bedsheet". Essentially just the state seal as a charge on a single color field, usually blue. Your task is to redesign flags for any of these states to the best of your ability.

We approved 179 entries, in the following categories:

Note: we accidentally posted the contest a few hours before the submission deadline. 10 additional entries were received in time, but after the contest was posted, and have been added in today. Apologies, and if you've already voted please go through and consider them! Will be easy to find from the top of /u/vexy/comments.

Voting

• Be sure to go through all the submissions, and upvote the flags you like!
• Vote on a good flag, not just a good image.
• This thread is in contest mode, meaning scores are hidden and flags are presented in random order.
• The thread is locked for comments for 2 days. Afterwards, you may comment on the flags, but do not comment on the thread itself.
• Anonymity is key so revealing your flag while the contest is in session will result in a disqualification. After voting is over, anyone may claim their flags and we will announce the top 20 and update the yearly standings.
• There has been a standing Reddit-wide bug where sometimes flags don't show up in the thread the first few days of voting. They should be visible by the 11th or 12th, and they will always be visible from /u/vexy/comments.

Voting will close at 11:59 PM ET on January 20.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

Prompt: Redesign a flag with five colours using only three

Since March is the third month, we’re limiting your designs to three colours this month. Not just any three however

These are the countries in the world who use five colours substantively on their flags (not detail in their CoAs on flags etc)

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Central African Republic

• Comoros

• Eswatini

• Guyana

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Seychelles

• Turkmenistan

• Tuvalu

• Zimbabwe

We want you to do redesigns of these countries flags using a maximum of three of the colours taken from the existing flags.

PLEASE READ THE CONTEST RULES

DO NOT show your design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.

Submission deadline is Wednesday 18th March 2026. Voting will begin on Thursday 19th March and end on Friday 27th March.

If you want your flag to be included in the ones voted on, click here or on any of the other links immediately below..

To submit a redesign of Mozambique, Antigua and Barbuda, or Eswatini, click here

Click anywhere on this link to enter a flag representing Zimbabwe, Guyana, or Namibia

To take part in the contest with a design for Comoros, the Central African Republic, or Tuvalu, use this link

Good luck and good designing!

Worldbuilding Contest - R/Vexillology Alternate April 2026 - North America

In April of 2021, R/Vexillology began a tradition. An alternate history tradition. Every April we focus our flag design contest around alternative history of a specific location.

In April 2021 we focused on Africa, then in April 2022 we moved onto Asia. April 2023 saw us go to Latin America an the Caribbean. April 2024 went to Oceania. Last year, we did Europe.

This year, the Alternate April contest returns to reach North America. Now, we need your nations.

We’re asking you to submit outlines for the information and history of your alternate history nations. Give your nation a name, write out a summary of important details - perhaps including notable history, culture, symbolism etc - the sorts of things that would inspire a potential flag, maybe include a map. Then some of the submitted entries will be the subject of the April 2026 flag design contest!

To submit your entries, click this link

For some helpful hints, the following are samples of successful nations from previous years.

Kitaukoku

León-Lyon

United Caribbean Commonwealth

For some basic rules, please keep your nation summaries etc below 1,200 words.

Multiple entries are accepted.

If you want to be successful, and have people making flags for your alternate history country, try not making it super racist/sexist/hyper-colonial etc. We want history changed, not mutilated.

For the purpose of the context, North America is defined as the United States, Canada, and Greenland areas. We’re not including Mexico and Central America as they were covered by the Latin Americas contest from 2023. We won’t rule your country out if it has spillover into the central American/Caribbean regions, but if it’s primarily based on those then there’s a good chance it won’t be accepted.

Do not prescribe the flag itself in the description. The goal is to create a country where others can be inspired to create a flag for it. This will require leeway.

You will need to submit the URLs of your google doc or other document/image sharing system. Please ensure you have set these to enable public access or we will not be able to read it, and your entry will not be selected. We will not be chasing about this. If we can't get in, we won't read it.

To send your entries click here.

Deadline for entries will be Saturday 28th March 2026.