The Liberian County Flags Animated

County names are in captions.
I love the Liberian county flags because they manage to be a genuinely unique and memorable set of flags for relatively small regions without falling into many of the pitfalls that tend to plague flags made for smaller regions of other countries. Contrast these with the flags of lesser known cities and regions in other countries and you'll see that the vast majority are forgettable seals on a monochromatic background. Liberia, on the other hand, actually tries to incorporate local symbolism in colorful designs, which is far better for creating a memorable and meaningful flag that you could recognize from a distance than just throwing a seal on there.
The flags have become a bit infamous among the vexillology community for being crudely drawn (which is what got me thinking about them), and while a few of them could certainly be cleaned up in their artwork, I don't actually think major changes would be an improvement at all for most of them. I've seen several non-Liberian vexillologists' attempts to design cleaner versions of the flags, but in all of these that I've seen, they tend to abstract the artwork into basic shapes, which may be cleaner looking, but has far less meaning. I think this is something to watch out for when ever designing flags for small regions: Compared to something like a national flag, there's going to be less local symbols that could still be recognizable once abstracted, so it's often better to leave those symbols as more specific drawings, even if they look unpolished, rather than lose that aspect and be left with just another geometric design that could really represent anything. I think far too often smaller cities and counties just give up on designing flags and resort to a seal on a bedsheet just because they don't have the same sort of local symbols that work as abstractions like more well known flags, and so I commend Liberia for actually giving it a go.

Music: The US Navy Band's performance of All Hail, Liberia, Hail!

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The Liberian County Flags Animated. Brought to you by: MS Paint

[Lars]

I'm a middle school teacher and taught a mini lesson of vexillology just week, where we discussed why these flags were simultaneously so great and so terrible. I cannot wait to show my students this video tomorrow.

[Cubes]

I don't know whether to love these or hate these.

[ash_sunday]

these are some absolutely banger flag designs

[skyrbx]

Liberia : i need something unique.
U.S : ?
Liberia : ima use MS paint cuz i am bored, yo this cool! look america!
U.S : help me

[noyes]

It is me or they hired a 3 year old to draw almost all of the counties flag’s?

[seals]

when you learn the meaning behind the flags you understand that these flags are actually pretty good!

[dogsareawesome]

How did you make trash flags look so good

[MichaelRepublic]

It’s crazy how every flag in liberia it’s requires to have their flag on the corner of their flag

0:40 this one would be good if not for the liberia flag in the corner

[createmations]

me as a vexillologist: i need to wash my eyes

[DAKIBalje]

0:01 Liberia
0:03 Grand Bassa
0:07 Nimba
0:10 Montserrado
0:13 Bomi
0:16 Margibi
0:20 Bong
0:23 Gbarpolu
0:26 Maryland
0:30 Grand Gedeh
0:33 Grand Cape Mount
0:36 Sinoe
0:40 Grand Kru (my fav)
0:43 Rivercess
0:47 River Gee
0:50 Lofa
0:53 Liberia (Again)

[Nigu_Flags]

This is amazing! What software do you use?

[Jubirubageleia]

0:02 grand Basa
0:06 nimba
0:09 monteseraddo
0:13 Bomi
0:16 Margibi
0:20 bong

[TwistedBoxtenSwedish]

0:25 Why you got a Both Name Called Maryland?

[tangomanhehe]

Did someone go on MS paint too make these flags

[soanjastudios]

Its So good When The Liberian Flag is therr

[user_ejgjtvtjt]

Maryland is my state. But why did they think about Maryland 2 in Liberia?

[quzşewıti._]

liberia: nice
"copiees montserrat's name fo some county"

[olleholleholleh]

if you gave a 6 year old the task to make a flag: