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Inverted pairs

[Flag of Costa Rica] [Flag of Thailand]

The flags of Costa Rica and Thailand are exactly alike except that the red and blue are swapped. The two are so far apart that I assume it must be coincidence....

There are several examples of such pairs like e.g.

There is no deeper reason for this, I think. But if you decide to have a tricolor with the middle stripe being white or yellow, everything reduces to combinatorics ... (Not to mention the immense choice you have to create a red and white horizontal bicolor as it is so popular in central Europe.) In my huble opinion, more interesting are pairs which were chosen on purpose like