Hello everyone vexillographer here

So a little while ago, I put together a list of 100 of the world's largest cities

This list was chosen based on the city's population size as well as their geographic area

But most importantly every single city on this list has its own flag and I have you awesome people

Decide which flags are the best and which ones were the worst?

So basically on the voting forms that I sent you guys

You could give each design a score from 0 to 10 based on how good or bad you thought the design was

And it was also a spot for you guys to leave comments on those city flags

So with your votes I have put together the list of the top 10 major city flags of the world

Chosen by you. Here we go. Starting out at number 10 is the city of Harbin China

It's the capital of the northeastern province of hail and young and it's got a pretty good flag you guys gave this one an average

score of

7.4 6 at a 10 which is not bad. It's got a nice green background with the city's emblem in the center

Oh it appears to be very similar to the city seal just without the text which is

In my opinion a very good flag design choice. I approve of

Unfortunately, there has not been very much written about this flag online that I could find. So let's just get to your comments

Shall we let's see kitty cat says looks like a Japanese flag aka simple and good rosal says do you see the little note?

Yeah, I love it

There doesn't seem to be like a little musical note hidden in the water in the graphic design

Which is pretty cool angular motion says amazing looks a bit Macau ish though

It kind of does Samantha says this one is a really cute. I love it

I agree and meeeegooo says pros few colors. They remove the text from the emblem before putting it on the flag cons none

I pretty much agree

This is a good flag to start out with we're off to a good start here

Number 9 is the flag of Chicago the largest city in the state of Illinois and the third largest city in the United States

It's a pretty good flag design

You guys gave it a very similar score to Harbin also

Seven point four six on average just a tiny like tiny few decimals better than Harbin. It's a pretty good design

it's got

symbolism

The two horizontal blue stripes represent the two branches of the Chicago River that go through the city the three white areas of the flag

represented the three so-called sides of Chicago the north side the west side and the south side and before a

Six-pointed red stars there each represents a major point in Chicago's history

You got the historic, Fort Dearborn the 1871 Chicago Fire the 1893 World's Fair and the 1933 World's Fair

It's just a really well-known design in vexillology circles

It's pretty good willow says famous for actually being a good American flag. Yeah American city flags. Don't have a great reputation

Riding the pony says this is fairly amazing for a seal flag state

Why Illinois, why why?

Let's see here

Alice says every so often something happens and everybody wonders if that's going to be the next star on the flag personally

I don't think they'll ever add another one

Alice is referring to how so many Chicagoans every now and then will propose adding a fifth star to the flag

For maintenance not like new major events, like for example

Chicago recently tried out to get the Olympics and a lot of people were saying hey if we get the Olympics

We'll add a fifth start to the flag because that'll be a big deal for our history, but they didn't get the Olympics

So Alice, you might be right

I don't know if they're gonna touch this classic design or not

And we actually got one in Chicago in who actually responded the Austin says nothing but respect for my city

Simple symbolic good color design. Yeah, good job, Chicago

number eight is the flag of

Yokohama the second largest city in Japan you guys gave this flag an average rating of seven point five seven out of ten

It's got a white background with a red version of the city's emblem in the center of the flag

Now this is one of those really awesome

Japanese prefecture city emblems where they take a piece of their name and they write it in some Japanese script

And they take the characters and turn them into a really cool geometric emblem

So what yokohama did here they took the last two syllables hama

Wrote them in the katakana script and they turned those characters into this really cool simple diamond shape. I love it. It's beautiful

Matthew writes japan knows how to do simple flags. Keep it up mg

I'm not too sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing and vexillology master just says

Japanese flags are the best number seven is the flag of Katmandu feet largest city and capital of Nepal

and you guys

Really like this one more than I thought you would you guys gave this an average rating of seven point six three out of ten

Which seems surprisingly high to me. It doesn't seem that unique. But alright, you guys liked it

I couldn't find very much information online about it, unfortunately, so let's just go to the conference

Alice says Nepal really has fun with their flags. Love them. They definitely had fun with their national flag

they definitely they definitely had some unique bold ideas with the national flag that one I could totally get behind but as far as the

Katmandu flag I'm not totally there. I'm kind of with the drea here if I said that right

I'm not really a big fan of weaponry, but this actually looks nice. It does look nice. It's like it's simple, uh, but like

Really the sword use your knees with that fascinated with the swords

I've got a bunch of comments like this one from ku cheap swords are dope

Hey and give ooh silvery

Yell are weird

and we actually got one person from Katmandu who commented see Tom Shi if I said that right says I

Might be a touch biased here since I am from Nepal and live in Katmandu

But I think this is a bold minimalist flag and strongly evokes the bloody militaristic past of the city

Yay number six is the flag of Singapore which is an enormous city in southeastern Asia as well

As its own independent country at the same time

If you guys gave this plaque a score of seven point six eight out of ten, which is pretty good

It's a horizontal by colour with the red on top and white on the bottom

And in the top left corner, there is a crescent moon shape with five five-pointed stars next to it

The crescent moon is a reference Chet how knew the country was at the time

This flag was adopted and the five-pointed stars each have their own official meaning

democracy justice peace prosperity and equality

Tracy says great city and national flag Marisa says non-islamic star and crescent design is actually pretty interesting. She's right

Uh, it doesn't officially Islam here. Usually when you see stars and crescents together on a flag

It's usually a reference to the religion Islam but not officially on the flag of Singapore

But again, the Crescent is for the newness of the country and builds five virtues

I talked about are represented by those five stars has nothing officially to do with this Lahoma. So that is interesting

Let's see lavender sheep says as a Singaporean bias for me and Marcus says

Half-moons doesn't work. That way stars shouldn't be visible through the moon. Yes, Marcus. You are technically correct

It is it's not

Astronomically accurate because you can't see stars from Earth in front of the moon or that would be big trouble for the area

Um, yeah, some Estrin astronomically doesn't make sense

But uh, I think it was probably a stylistic choice they were going for it

And now we're in the top five starting with the flag of Guayaquil the largest city in Ecuador and oh my goodness

I love this flag

you guys gave this a rating on average of seven point seven six out of ten and it's really cool and its history is really

Fascinating to this flag. It's a lot older than a lot of the other flags on this list

So this one dates all the way back to?

1820 when the province of quiet keel was revolting against the Spanish Empire

So at that time

Guayaquil was part of the reality and sia de Quito which was one of the districts of the Spanish Empire at that particular moment

But they were gettin tired with Spain's rule. So they revolted and in 1820 they started to use this flag for their local area

Why Akhil ended up getting its independence before the arrest of Ecuador did which is really fascinating

So this flag sort of served as not just the city flag and province flag

But also for a little while has its own kind of national flag. It's had a really fascinating run as a flag

The these five blue and white stripes look awesome

And these three five-pointed stars could either represent

the three major cities of the province at the time or they could also represent the three major districts of the

Reality Anzio de Quito area, but whatever. The reason is. This black is really cool

Del says it rivals Chicago for best use of stars

Roman writes if the flags of Greece and Duras had a baby he

Rowan says awesome

this is better than many state city and national flags because it kind of was all three at some point and Gavin show says

Ecuadorian flags must all be great not all of them. But like there are a lot of good Ecuadorian flags in the provinces, etc

Like they're worth looking into if they're definitely better than American ones and Draya if I said that right says amazing splendid relevant recognizable

I would proudly fly this and why you kill residents appear to agree. They're putting it on display

They're showing it off. Great flag yaq. Good job for number four

You guys picked the flag of amsterdam the largest city and capital of the Netherlands and I don't blame you at all

It's really cool

You guys gave her an average score of seven point nine out of ten and oh, it's so unique in it's just so awesome

You've got these three horizontal stripes of red black and red with these three white st

Andrew's crosses in the center and this design is taken from the shield from Amsterdam's

City coat of arms way way better idea than just slapping the coat of arms on some boring background

They took the shields cool design and made that the flags design. It's so good

Iris rates very visually appealing up close and from afar and very recognizable and unique 11 out of 10

Which actually wasn't an option on the forum, you could only go up to 10, but I know what you mean trixie

Fixie says I love this flag

I also love that it came from the shield Leah says looks like the flag of an evil Galactic Empire

Death says hardcore and a grizzly bear

If I said that right

Says the best part of this flag is you can find it around Amsterdam and the people are proud of it

That is always a good sign that you have a great flag

number three is the flag of

Osaka which conveniently is the third largest city in Japan you guys gave this black an average score of eight point zero eight out of

Ten and it's a nice simple design. It's got a blue background with a yellow to the emblem of Osaka in the center

But where did this emblem come from?

It's actually not based on any Japanese text of Osaka's name like you might expect it's actually based on this wooden thing

Called a meals cushy doing fireworks out there and stop it. July 4th is over people

Okay, it's called a meals cushy. I said that right, please. Correct me if anyone knows Japanese if I said that wrong

So what's the meals cushy it means because she is this wooden stake that was used historically throughout

Osaka's time has a very important port city, but it's still a very important port city actually today

So what they would do with all the ships going in and out of Osaka Bay doing trade they would stick these wooden stakes these

Meals cushy into the waters of Osaka Bay to guide the ships going in and out

And these meals cushy became so well known in Osaka eventually that the city just adopted a meals Kashyyyk as its official emblem

That's a pretty cool origin story and a really cool reference to how important trade is to the city Marisa writes

I really like the design on the flag. Japan's flags are generally great. Benjamin says perfect simple and a mirror flag

I think he likes symmetry and flag design. Milly says not sure what the symbol means but awesome

Kitty cat says it's striking but simple and Eris says work in Osaka or kid work. Yeah, and

now the top two flags were really really close to each other, but you guys picked for second place of the flag of

Phoenix the capital of Arizona and the fifth largest city in the United States. It's got a really really cool flag

It's got an unusual purple background with

Cities awesome logo in the middle in white you guys gave this flag a rating of eight point four two out of ten

And it's pretty cool man, it's cool. Okay

so

Of course

The emblem in the center is the mythical bird

Known as the Phoenix very clever reference to the city's name there

Or maybe very obvious reference to the city's name now

The city's name is a reference to the ancient Holcomb

Civilization which thrived in the area hundreds of years ago along with Salt River where Phoenix is today the Hubbell comp civilization built canals

They build structures they did agriculture like it was a fascinating civilization

so the guys that founded the modern city of phoenix were thinking

Hey Let's name it after the phoenix that rises from the ashes

Because we're kind of building a new city on top of the ashes of the Holcombe civilization. That was the idea

But I think that's kind of dumb because the descendents of the hobo com civilization are still around

You've got the Pima nations and the all dominations. They're still around and they're still living in the area. So calling that

It's kind of stupid. I think but the flag is definitely awesome Roman writes. I mean, it's a phoenix

Health says nice look like something straight out from a sci-fi movie

Some maple strips says I did a spit-take when I saw this flag come up. This is gorgeous

Fatigue says they pretty much copy Japan's Prefecture flags, which is a good thing

It does look kind of Japanese doesn't it compared to the other Japanese flags. We saw and Anna writes. It looks like Mozilla Firefox

And now the winner according to you guys the number one best major city flag in the world

Goes to the flag of Hong Kong

Approximately the tenth largest city in China

But it's kind of tricky to tell because it's one of those at special administrative regions which has its own government separate from the Chinese

Government, but we're not going to talk about that. We're talking about the flag

It's got Hong Kong's flag is a brilliant example of good flag design. It's oh, that's great

This is a great pic guys. It totally deserves it the

Symbolism of this flag is just genius. It's brilliant. Okay, so the emblem is absolutely fantastic

It's in the shape of a bow inia flower

Which is also known as a Hong Kong orchid because it's a very well-known local symbol

You can see the flowers of this plant all over Hong Kong

It's known as a local symbol and that's genius but also look inside the petals of the flower

You'll notice these five-pointed stars and there are five of them

Why is that because that is a reference to the national flag of China with its five stars? That is

That is so good and HTML here who's from Hong Kong says simple

But wynia as local symbol five stars and red background related to China. Oh my goodness. It's so good

I can't stop looking at it. It's great. Chloe says instantly recognizable trolls rights

It's simple but visually interesting and it's highly symbolic gold-standard

Eden says absolutely beautiful. No doubt one of best of all Flags very memorable

I totally agree Hong Kong great job

This is a winning design right here. Absolutely. Brilliant flag design great choice guys great great choice

So there you go. Those are the top ten major world city flags chosen by you guys from this survey

Thank you guys so much every one of you who voted and this thank you for watching. Leave a comment

What's your favorite city flag on this list? Did I leave out any that you thought were really good and also?

Stay tuned for the worst. Ten based on the same survey. I'm gonna I'm gonna go over your least favorite one soon

So stay tuned for that. That should be fun. Anyway, thank you guys so much

This is a Hong Kong flag and I saying peace farewell. Bye