Flags of the United Nations poster (English, distributed in Manila)
A wall chart of about 110 labelled national flags in rows around the blue United Nations flag, which is captioned 'adopted by the General Assembly, October 20, 1947'. The flags of the United States, the Soviet Union, Cuba and China (Republic of China flag) appear in the same grid. The foot reads 'Distributed by the United States Information Service'. The tell is transfer: the UN emblem at the centre lends its standing to every flag around it, and the distribution line ties the sheet to U.S. information work.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 1, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 1, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949245, 306-PPB-320).
Text on the object
FLAGS OF THE UNITED NATIONS AFGHANISTAN ALBANIA ALGERIA ARGENTINA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM BOLIVIA BRAZIL BULGARIA BURMA BURUNDI BYELORUSSIAN S.S.R. CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CEYLON CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA CONGO REPUBLIC CONGO(Brazzaville) CONGO(Leopoldville) COSTA RICA CUBA CYPRUS CZECHOSLOVAKIA DAHOMEY DENMARK DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ECUADOR EL SALVADOR ETHIOPIA FINLAND FRANCE GABON GHANA GREECE GUATEMALA GUINEA HAITI HONDURAS HUNGARY ICELAND INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRAQ IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY IVORY COAST JAMAICA JAPAN JORDAN KENYA KUWAIT LAOS LEBANON LIBERIA LIBYA LUXEMBOURG MALAGASY MALAYSIA MALI MAURETANIA MEXICO MONGOLIA MOROCCO NEPAL NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA NORWAY PAKISTAN PANAMA PARAGUAY PERU PHILIPPINES POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RWANDA SAUDI ARABIA SENEGAL SIERRA LEONE SOMALIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SUDAN SWEDEN SYRIA TANGANYIKA THAILAND TOGO TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TUNISIA TURKEY UGANDA UKRAINIAN S.S.R. UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UPPER VOLTA URUGUAY VENEZUELA YEMEN YUGOSLAVIA ZANZIBAR United Nations Flag adopted by the General Assembly, October 20, 1947 The proportions and shades of color of these flags do not—in all cases—conform exactly to official specifications. Distributed by the UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE 6-706 (62)
Country labels in the order the grid reads, left to right, top to bottom; the code '6-706 (62)' at lower right is small and read approximately.
