By place · Asia · Every flag
The flags of Eastern Asia
8 of the world’s 254 flags are filed under Eastern Asia, which is part of Asia. Each one is shown at the shape it is really flown in.
The rest of Asia
How a flag gets onto this list
It is filed there. Every flag in this atlas carries a region and, for most of them, a part of that region — and both come from the same country dataset the names come from, rather than from anybody here. Nothing on this page was decided by us: the list is rebuilt from that filing on every build, so a country that moves upstream moves here.
Which means the lists are a filing system and not a claim about who belongs with whom. Five flags in this atlas are not countries at all and are described by hand, because no country dataset has a row for them.