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Comment by Freak_NL | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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

> > 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

Maybe the downvotes (not from me) were because your post initially appears to be correcting your parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737), but is actually agreeing with it?

Well no, I think the parent is agreeing with the GP actually.

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.

There are many close matches:

https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-like.html

And the months being sorted alphabetically was great too!

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