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List of flags with reverses that differ from the obverse
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<p>This article contains a list of <a href="/facts/Flag/RbK3SDX4">flags</a> for which the reverse (back ) is different from the <a href="/facts/Obverse/kquuDLDY">obverse</a> (front ). It includes current as well as historic flags of both nations and national subdivisions such as provinces, states, territories, cities and other administrations (including a few that are not recognized by the <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a> or whose sovereignty is in dispute). When the flag is that of a nation, the Subdivision column is blank ( — ). </p><p>The list below does not include flags for which the reverse side is congruent (identical ) nor is it a mirror image of the obverse side (horizontally flipped ). Flag sides are usually mirror copy to satisfy manufacturing constraints. Identical flags are much less common and contain an element for which a simple mirror image would be problematic, such as text (e.g. The <a href="/facts/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia/SXqazcS8">flag of Saudi Arabia</a> includes the <a href="/facts/Shahada/DH7A50mJ">Shahada</a>, an Islamic creed; The <a href="/facts/Flag_of_Iraq/xFtt1p5L">flag of Iraq</a> includes the <a href="/facts/Takbir/GdUjt3Iw">Takbir</a>) or a geographic feature (e.g. The <a href="/facts/Flag_of_the_United_Nations/x1Gne3us">flag of the United Nations</a> includes an <a href="/facts/Azimuthal_equidistant_projection/gL00mn7A">azimuthal equidistant projection</a> of the earth). Flags having a truly different designs on both their sides (two-sided ) differ from the norm. The only UN-recognized nation whose present-day flag officially contains a unique image on each side is <a href="/facts/Paraguay/sbzfv4Rl">Paraguay</a>. </p><p>Not all impression of two-sided flags are <i>de facto</i> two-sided because of practical manufacturing constraints or, judging from how often it was disregarded in practice, some formal concern of heraldic nature. As such it may very well be prescribed legally from the very beginning and ever ignored in practice by institutions of every type. </p><p>Many of those flags are reconstructions based on various degree of evidence. </p>