FlagAndMap Weblog

Many nations have national days in December. Plan something special on the following dates for friends from these countries.
Dec 1, Union Day in Romania
Dec 1, National Day in Centrafrique
Dec 2, National Day in the United Arab Emirates
Dec 2, National Day in Laos
Dec 5, King’s Birthday in Thailand
Dec 6, Independence Day in Finland
Dec 12, Jamhuri Day in Kenya
Dec 13, Republic Day in Malta
Dec 13, National Day in Saint Lucia
Dec 16, National Day in Bahrain
Dec 17, National Day in Bhutan
Dec 18, Republic Day in Niger
Dec 18, National Day in Qatar
Dec 20, National Day in Guyane
Dec 28, Republic Day in Nepal

Recently created 2010 Calendar Mouse Pads make ideal gifts for this time of year. We have versions for each nation featuring a flag and map design surrounded by the 2010 calendar. Perfect for keeping your dates straight while surfing the internet.
Here are a few examples:

Just a reminder that all our products are customizable and can make great gifts for the right recipient. Do you have friends from other countries or travel buddies with whom you shared a great trip abroad? Add your own text to products designed for that nation and you create a uniquely personalized gift for Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate in the coming season. Adding your own text or images is easily done using the ‘Customize it!’ button just before you add the item to your cart. We have t-shirts, mugs, bags, hats, mousepads, keychains and much more, all of which can be personalized in this way.

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Ring Binders are the latest addition to our product range. These come in three ring sizes, 1″, 1.5″ and 2″ and start at $18.95. They are of course perfect for organizing paper based products. Flagandmap customers will find them useful for travel scrapbooks, photo albums, school geography projects and similar creative ideas. The designs on our binders feature national maps composed of flag hearts and are, as ever, customizable so you could replace the front image with one of your own choosing – a favorite travel photo perhaps. Here are a few examples:

Two new designs of customizable mug have been added to our European collection. These are template products, which make it easy to substitute your own text for the placeholder text. Substitute the name of a person or organization plus a special message or anniversary details to create a personalized gift or commemorative item.

The first design features a flag-colored map on one side with your text on the other side while the second features a map of flag hearts on one side with your text on the other side.

We’re pleased to announce a cooperative marketing arrangement with, Flagnostic, a store that also sells products with designs based on world flags. Their t-shirts, mugs, hats, magnets, etc. feature gnarly national flag designs for every nation. We like their name and we like their designs. Here is their shop banner, which gives an idea of the kind of designs you might currently find there.

You can check them out at www.zazzle.com/flagnostic

Recently we created bumper stickers with flag and map designs for every European nation. Each carries the country name in english plus the text ‘adventure destination’. As ever, you have the option to replace that text with your own before you buy.

As an example here is the bumper sticker for Romania

If you go to our Search by Nation webpage you’ll notice that most of the links take you to our store at Zazzle where you can browse, customize and purchase products for the selected nation. However, you’ll also find that some of the links take you first to a FlagAndMap webpage dedicated to that nation. The page for Bulgaria is a good example. These pages comprise links to both products and information for the selected nation. Of course that includes links to our own products but there are also links to products from other designers with a connection to that nation. More than that though you’ll find links to general national information, relevant blogs by nationals or ex-pats, selected music from that nation, national publications and appropriate interest groups.

We hope you’ll find these pages useful and by all means contact us if you have observations regarding their content. Populating these pages is a time-consuming process so please be patient if we have not yet completed one for the nation of interest to you.

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