All the flags of the world, in one big pie chart

You see that up there? That’s all the flags of the world, smushed together and organized by colour in a pie chart. It’s the work of one Shahee Ilyas, who has a webpage that features this, as well as each individual flag in their own pie chart. Each sector of each piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.

I found it strangely hypnotic to see flags stripped of their symbology and reduced to mere circles and colours. So much of the pomp is gone, and yet there is still wide variation. You can click on each pie chart to reveal the underlying flag.

Although, Ukraine — your pie chart is essentially the same as your flag. Just sayin’

(From the Twitter feed of Steve Juras.)