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Add flag for Balearic Islands (ISO: ES-IB) #1183

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raufaser opened this issue Nov 19, 2023 · 3 comments
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Add flag for Balearic Islands (ISO: ES-IB) #1183

raufaser opened this issue Nov 19, 2023 · 3 comments

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@raufaser
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As there are flags for other subdivisions of Spain, it would be nice to have the flag of the Balearic Islands too.

(ISO: ES-IB)

@lipis
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lipis commented Jan 16, 2025

All these Spanish stuff.. do they have a football team or something?

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jagomf commented Feb 20, 2025

@lipis actually there should not be flags for any subdivisions of Spain at all, they are neither countries nor states (as they are in e.g., United Kingdom), just... regions. It's pointless to currently have es-ct, es-pv and es-ga.
If you create flags for subdivisions of countries you would be missing the point of your curated collection.

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All these Spanish stuff.. do they have a football team or something?

Actually you are not that far off with "football team".
Maybe i can give you a little background where my request comes from. I am a ham radio operator. In the ham radio microcosmos there are so called DXCC entities. It is a list of regions of the world which is curated by the ARRL (Ham radio organisation of the USA). Most of the time the entries are equivalent to countries. But there are much more entities than countries. For example there is a DXCC entity called Spain (EA), another entity called Balearic Islands (EA6), another entity called Canary Islands (EA8) and another one called Ceuta & Melilla (EA9).
A little bit like in football Wales and Scotland have their own national team. By the way they are seperate DXCC entities as well.

Since ham radio is a more or less apolitical hobby dividing the world like this is not for i don't know supporting seperatistic movements or so. One reason for that is for example like the french oversea regions. It is a big difference if you have a contact to a station from main land france or a french island in the middle of the pacific.

And since I want to display a corresponding flag to a DXCC entity and sometimes it is a flag of a geopolitical region of a country it would have been nice to have it in a library of flags. If this library only has flags of countries then it is not in scope of this library. But since there are flags of regions of countries or even "meta"-flags (like EU), I thought i might give it a shot and ask for the flag of the balearic islands :)

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