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Why Every Flag Is a Rectangle (Except One)
Why are nearly all national flags rectangles? It wasn't an aesthetic choice — it was an engineering decision driven by maritime visibility and industrial mass production. This episode traces the surprising history of flag standardization, from Roman vexilla to the French tricolor's global influence, and examines Nepal's mathematically unique double-pennon flag — the only national flag that isn't a quadrilateral. Discover how the rectangle became the visual grammar of legitimate statehood, and what Nepal's stubborn exception reveals about who gets to design the symbols of national identity…
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