Drawing world flags

For use in LaTeX documents and particularly in TikZ drawings, Wilhelm Haager created the worldflags package, which contains the national flags of all independent nations. Where possible, he used TikZ to draw them with geometric constructions; otherwise, he converted Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files via Inkscape to TikZ.

The main command is as follows:

\worldflag[options]{country code}

Here, country code is the common two-letter code for the country, such as US for the United States or NZ for New Zealand. The manual provides the complete list.

These are some of the supported options:

• width and length stand for the dimensions of the flag. With length of zero, the default aspect ratio is used for calculating the final length
• framewidth is the line width of the frame
• framecolor sets the frame color
• emblem or noemblem enables or disables the drawing of an emblem on the flag

So, for example, we can write the following code:

...