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The flag of Nepal is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign country. It takes the shape of two adjoining right-angled triangles and has a crimson red field with deep blue edges. Within the smaller upper triangle is an emblem of the upper half of a white sun resting on an upward facing white crescent. The lower triangle bears a white sun with twelve rays.

Nepal

Population: 29,911,840

Region: Asia

Capital: Kathmandu

The flag of Belize has a royal blue field with a thin red horizontal band at the top and bottom of the field and the national coat of arms in the center.

Belize

Population: 417,634

Region: Americas

Capital: Belmopan

The flag of Anguilla is blue, with the flag of the UK in the canton and the national coat of arms centered in the fly half. The coat of arms depicts three orange dolphins in an interlocking circular design on a white background with a turquoise-blue field below.

Anguilla

Population: 16,010

Region: Americas

Capital: The Valley

The flag of Barbados is composed of three equal vertical bands of ultramarine, gold and ultramarine. The head of a black trident is centered in the gold band.

Barbados

Population: 267,800

Region: Americas

Capital: Bridgetown

The flag of the British Virgin Islands is blue with the UK flag in the canton and the national coat of arms centered in the fly half. The coat of arms depicts a woman flanked by vertical columns of six oil lamps above a scroll bearing the Latin word "VIGILATE" (Be Watchful).

British Virgin Islands

Population: 39,471

Region: Americas

Capital: Road Town

The flag of Costa Rica is composed of five horizontal bands of blue, white, red, white and blue. The central red band is twice the height of the other four bands. The national coat of arms is placed in a white elliptical disk toward the hoist side of the red band.

Costa Rica

Population: 5,309,625

Region: Americas

Capital: San José

The flag of Cuba is composed of five equal horizontal bands of blue alternating with white and a red equilateral triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. The triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about two-fifth the width of the field and bears a white five-pointed star at its center.

Cuba

Population: 9,748,007

Region: Americas

Capital: Havana

The flag of Nigeria is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, white and green.

Nigeria

Population: 223,800,000

Region: Africa

Capital: Abuja

The flag of Oman features a red vertical band on the hoist side that takes up about one-fourth the width of the field, and three equal horizontal bands of white, red and green adjoining the vertical band. At the top of the vertical band is the white emblem of Oman.

Oman

Population: 5,343,630

Region: Asia

Capital: Muscat

The flag of Brazil has a green field with a large yellow rhombus in the center. Within the rhombus is a dark blue globe with twenty-seven small five-pointed white stars depicting a starry sky and a thin white convex horizontal band inscribed with the national motto 'Ordem e Progresso' across its center.

Brazil

Population: 213,421,037

Region: Americas

Capital: Brasília

The flag of El Salvador is composed of three equal horizontal bands of cobalt blue, white and cobalt blue, with the national coat of arms centered in the white band.

El Salvador

Population: 6,029,976

Region: Americas

Capital: San Salvador

The flag of Suriname is composed of five horizontal bands of green, white, red, white and green in the ratio of 2:1:4:1:2. A large five-pointed yellow star is centered in the red band.

Suriname

Population: 616,500

Region: Americas

Capital: Paramaribo

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