August 16th, 2026

From France's tricolor, born of the Revolution, to Colombia's flag flying the same yellow-blue-red bands as Ecuador and Venezuela, all tracing back to Francisco de Miranda's banner for a united Gran Colombia, this round moved through flags shaped by shared histories as much as national ones. Timor-Leste's flag, adopted upon independence in 2002, layers a black arrowhead and white star over red and yellow to mark its path from colonization to sovereignty. Trinidad and Tobago's red, white, and black stripes were chosen without inherited colors, meant to represent fire, water, and earth rather than any predecessor state, while Saint Kitts and Nevis closes the set with a design built for its own 1983 independence, its green and red fields split by a black band studded with two white stars of hope and liberty.