Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot
Poland & Monaco, for instance, both share a similar design.

Where exactly IS this "Tenerife"? I can't say I've ever heard of it? Is it a micro-nation?

Cheers,

Todd
it's a martial thing, in war one has to be able to identify friend or foe, so flags have to be distinctly different, e.g., in WW1 British ground troops shot down planes flying the Union Jack since, from the ground, it resembled the German cross. The tricolour roundel was distinct.

Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, you might remember it from a horrendous disaster involving two jumbo jets in the '80's, I think.