bands of blue (top) and red with
a gold crown on the hoist side of the blue band

Lithuania:
three equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), green, and
red

Luxembourg:
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and
light blue; similar to the flag of the Netherlands, which uses a
darker blue and is shorter; design was based on the flag of France

Macau:
light green with a lotus flower above a stylized bridge and
water in white, beneath an arc of five gold, five-pointed stars: one
large in center of arc and four smaller

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
a rising yellow sun with
eight rays extending to the edges of the red field

Madagascar:
two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a
vertical white band of the same width on hoist side

Malawi:
three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green
with a radiant, rising, red sun centered in the black band

Malaysia:
14 equal horizontal stripes of red (top) alternating with
white (bottom); there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing a yellow crescent and a yellow fourteen-pointed star;
the crescent and the star are traditional symbols of Islam; the
design was based on the flag of the US

Maldives:
red with a large green rectangle in the center bearing a
vertical white crescent; the closed side of the crescent is on the
hoist side of the flag

Mali:
three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and
red; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia

Malta:
two equal vertical bands of white (hoist side) and red; in
the upper hoist-side corner is a representation of the Saint George
Cross, edged in red

Man, Isle of:
red with the Three Legs of Man emblem (Trinacria), in
the center; the three legs are joined at the thigh and bent at the
knee; in order to have the toes pointing clockwise on both sides of
the flag, a two-sided emblem is used

Marshall Islands:
blue with two stripes radiating from the lower
hoist-side corner - orange (top) and white; there is a white star
with four large rays and 20 small rays on the hoist side above the
two stripes

Martinique:
a light blue background is divided into four quadrants
by a white cross; in the center of each rectangle is a white snake;
the flag of France is used for official occasions

Mauritania:
green with a yellow five-pointed star above a yellow,
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