Flag of the Day – Romania & Chad
This is a twofer. The national flags of Romania and Chad are tricolor with vertical stripes, beginning from the flagpole: blue, yellow and red. They have a width-length ratio of 2:3.
The Romanian flag is identical to the state flag of Chad. They’ve been arguing over the flag since 1989. It seems like an easy dispute to adjudicate, right? Who had it first? The answer to that question is Romania which started using the flag in 1866. But wait. Chad began to the flag in 1960, after it achieved independence from France. At that time, the Romanian flag included the of the Coat of Arms of the Socialist Republic of Romania at the Romanian flag’s center.
The coat of arms was removed entirely in 1989 after the revolution which overthrew Nicolae Ceaușesce and Romania went back to the older flag.
Chad & Romania
Romania (Soviet Era)
Too bad there isn’t a country named Jeremy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvL2oLeBYs
Given the distance between Romania and Chad, both geographically and culturally, there would seem to be little chance of confusion between the two; unless, of course, one country would someday contribute troops to a UN peacekeeping mission in the other.