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In the village of Bumweru, in Uganda, students wear burgundy and white uniforms.
School uniforms vary across the African nation. Pictured are children during a lesson at a rural school.
Pupils in Yemen wear army-like green uniforms with patches of the Arab nation's flag.
Pakistani schoolboys of the Jhanda tribal district of Mohmand Hills can be seen wearing traditional uniforms with hats.
Pupils wearing white and blue uniforms are pictured in their schoolyard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Nepali students wear white and blue uniforms. Ties are also part of the uniform.
Red uniforms are worn by children at the Ban San Kong school of Mae Chan in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai.
Young students pose for a photo in Pilate, Haiti, dressed in beige from head to toe.
Green and pink are the colors worn by these schoolchildren near Masai Village in Kenya.
In Pyongyang, students wear white and navy. Boys wear pants, and schoolgirls wear pleated skirts.
Schoolgirls wear red and white hijab uniforms at Kota Bandung in West Java, Indonesia.
Headgear is widely used across Pakistani schools. Here is another example.
Schoolchildren wear traditional green uniforms with embroidered white shirts in the village of Kuwoo near Inle Lake in Myanmar.
Chinese pupils wear a variety of uniforms, depending on the location and the school. Here are schoolchildren wearing blue and red uniforms at the Beichuan Red Army elementary school in Beichuan, China.
The color of school uniforms in the UK varies depending on the school. Here are pupils at Kirkby High School in Merseyside, England.
India is a country of variety when it comes to school uniforms. Students of Loyola Yomiuri School in Bijapur wear dark rose uniforms.
Pupils in Sout Tangerang in Banten, Indonesia wear white and burgundy uniforms.
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Students from the Pelkhil high school in Thimphu can be seen wearing traditional Bhutanese uniforms, which are pretty unique.
Schoolgirls at Sandipani Muni School wear completely different uniforms, with white and navy ruling.
Students of the Gardens Commercial High School in Cape Town wear sharp light blue uniforms with yellow details.
At a primary school in Fuwen Town, pupils wear bright yellow and blue uniforms with red details.
Students of a Catholic school in El Retiro, Colombia, can be seen wearing traditional uniforms.
School uniforms have not been mandatory in France since the late 1960s, but in 2024 a new scheme was introduced in an attempt to tackle inequality. Some schools, like the Chateau de la Chevaliere primary school in Beziers, adhered to it.
Japanese elementary schoolgirls wear traditional sailor fuku uniforms.
Students of Collège Amiral Pierre Bouvet in Saint-Benoît wear light blue t-shirts as part of their uniform.
School uniforms are not compulsory in every country, but many nations across the globe adopted them. Some argue that uniforms undermine personal expression through fashion, but on the other hand, they are a way of tackling inequality amongst pupils. Whatever your view is on school uniforms, there are some pretty cool ones out there that deserve a spot on this list.
Click through the gallery to see what school uniforms look like around the world.
Pupils wearing blue and beige uniforms line up in Makeni, Sierra Leone.
In Kigali, Rwanda, all schoolchildren wear skirts. These can be green or blue.
The traditional uniforms worn by schoolgirls in Ukraine were considered the world's most stylish by Vogue magazine.
Sri Lankan students wear white, from head to toe.
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School uniforms are not compulsory in every country, but many nations across the globe adopted them. Some argue that uniforms undermine personal expression through fashion, but on the other hand, they are a way of tackling inequality amongst pupils. Whatever your view is on school uniforms, there are some pretty cool ones out there that deserve a spot on this list.
Click through the gallery to see what school uniforms look like around the world.