Summary

This attractive guide to the flags of the world is comprehensive in its coverage and in its use of full-colour reproductions throughout. Over 170 nations are described, each with its flag, brief history and information concerning population, language, capital cities and coinage. The book also contains interesting statistics with colour reproductions of each relevant flag, together with information about the key territories and dependencies within a continent or the provinces within a country. Finally there is a section on international and regional organisations and their flags.