Surprisingly, not many know that July 22 is Indian National Flag Day — the day in 1947 when the Constituent Assembly officially adopted the national flag for independent India. Just weeks before ...

Pingali Venkayya, a freedom fighter and visionary, designed the original version of India’s national flag after years of ...

The nation observes the Flag Day that commemorates the adoption of the U.S. flag on this day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) ...

Denmark's flag, known as the Dannebrog, is recognised as the oldest national flag in continuous use. According to legend, the Dannebrog miraculously fell from the sky during a battle in 1219, leading ...

In 1816, the King Kamehameha I then adopted a flag with nine horizontal stripes alternating from red, white and blue, and the Union Jack in the canton. The flag of the Hawaiian Kingdom adopted in ...

With a week to go until a landmark Independence Day, Indonesian protesters are raising the straw hat-wearing Jolly Roger from ...