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That country selector that is all the country flags of the world in greyscale with colours only shown on mouse-over deserves a special mention. Not really a pr

That country selector that is all the country flags of the world in greyscale with colours only shown on mouse-over deserves a special mention. Not really a problem if you're just entering garbage information, but try to find the proper flag if you actually want the correct one. Bonus points if you are one of the many lucky citizens born under a flag that consists of three horizontal or vertical areas of equal size.

wazoox 7y ago
Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country.
- dgfrfdLKSKD 7y ago
  They are the same country edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
  - JadeNB 7y ago
    > > Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country. > They are the same country > edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana Maybe the downvotes (not from me) were because your post initially appears to be correcting your parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737), but is actually agreeing with it?
    - makapuf 7y ago
      Well no, I think the parent is agreeing with the GP actually.
joegahona 7y ago
I have always dreamed of creating a country dropdown that was not in alphabetical order and contained historical countries/territories/empires that don't exist anymore. This is even better though.
jmiserez 7y ago
And the months being sorted alphabetically was great too!
dredmorbius 7y ago
There are many close matches: https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-like.html https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-like.html

wazoox 7y ago

Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country.

dgfrfdLKSKD 7y ago
They are the same country edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
- JadeNB 7y ago
  > > Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country. > They are the same country > edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana Maybe the downvotes (not from me) were because your post initially appears to be correcting your parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737), but is actually agreeing with it?
  - makapuf 7y ago
    Well no, I think the parent is agreeing with the GP actually.

joegahona 7y ago

I have always dreamed of creating a country dropdown that was not in alphabetical order and contained historical countries/territories/empires that don't exist anymore. This is even better though.

jmiserez 7y ago

And the months being sorted alphabetically was great too!

dredmorbius 7y ago

There are many close matches: https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-like.html https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-like.html