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This package is a collection of flags for geographic region and sub-region codes.
The regions are based on the data from [BCP 47][0] and selected sub-regions (US
states, Canadian provinces and territories, and some sub-regions of Great Britain)
are based on [ISO 3166-2:US][1], [ISO 3166-2:CA][2], and [ISO-3166-2:GB][2].
states, Canadian provinces and territories, and some sub-regions of Great Britain
and their German equivalents)
are based on [ISO 3166-2:US][1], [ISO 3166-2:CA][3], and [ISO-3166-2:GB][2]
and [ISO-3166-2:DE][4].
Most people think of these regions from BCP 47 as country flags, but there are a
few codes / flags that do not correspond to countries. The flags are in SVG and
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- Canadian provinces and territories
- Countries of England, Scotland, and Wales in Great Britain
- The province Northern Ireland in Great Britain
- All Bundesländer of Germany
The flags are downloaded from Wikipedia. When Wikipedia flags were copyrighted,
we worked we Wikipedia editors to either relicense them, or drew / sourced and
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[1]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:US
[2]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:GB
[3]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CA
[4]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:DE