Culture
National Flags
Flags of all sovereign nations.
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Flag(s)↕ | State↕ | Aspect ratio↕ | Date of latest adoption↕ | Designer(s)↕ | Description↕ | Refs.↕ |
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| Afghanistan (Islamic Emirate) | Afghanistan | 1:2 | August 15, 2021 | —N/a | White with a black Shahada in Thuluth script in the center. Hoist side depicted to right. | |
| Afghanistan (Islamic Republic) | 2:3 | August 19, 2013 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), red, and green, with the national emblem in white centered on the red band and slightly overlapping the other 2 bands. | — | |
| Albania | Albania | 5:7 | April 7, 1992 | —N/a | Red with a black double-headed eagle in the center. | |
| Algeria | Algeria | 2:3 | July 3, 1962 | Disputed | Two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary. | |
| Civil Flag of Andorra | Andorra | 7:10 | April 22, 1866 | Napoleon III | Three vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red; the latter band is slightly wider than the other 2 so that the ratio of band widths is 8:9:8 | |
| State Flag of Andorra | May 5, 1993 | —N/a | The civil flag with the national coat of arms of Andorra centered in the yellow band | — | — | — |
| Angola | Angola | 2:3 | November 11, 1975 | Henrique de Carvalho Santos | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle). | |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda | November 1, 1981 | Reginald Samuel | Red, with an inverted isosceles triangle based on the top edge of the flag; the triangle contains three horizontal bands of black (top), light blue, and white, with a yellow rising sun in the black band. | — | |
| Argentina | Argentina | 5:8 | November 23, 2010 | Manuel Belgrano | Three equal horizontal bands of sky blue (top), white, and sky blue; centered in the white band is a radiant yellow sun with a human face (delineated in brown) known as the Sun of May. | |
| Armenia | Armenia | 1:2 | August 24, 1990 | Hovhannes Kajaznuni Stepan Malkhasyants | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), blue, and orange. | |
| Australia | Australia | February 14, 1954 | Annie Dorrington Ivor William Evans Leslie Hawkins Egbert Nuttall William Stevens | Blue with the flag of the United Kingdom in the upper hoist-side quadrant and a large seven-pointed star in the lower hoist-side quadrant known as the Commonwealth or Federation Star; on the fly half is a representation of the Southern Cross constellation in white with one small, five-pointed star and four larger, seven-pointed stars. | — | |
| Civil flag of Austria | Austria | 2:3 | May 1, 1945 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and red | |
| State flag of Austria | —N/a | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Austria in the center | — | — | — | — |
| Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | 1:2 | August 30, 1991 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of sky blue (top), red, and green; a vertical crescent moon and an eight-pointed star in white are centered in the red band. | |
| Bahamas | The Bahamas | July 10, 1973 | Hervis Bain | Three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine (top), gold, and aquamarine, with a black equilateral triangle based on the hoist side. | — | |
| Bahrain | Bahrain | 3:5 | February 14, 2002 | —N/a | Red with a white serrated band (five white points) on the hoist side. | |
| Bangladesh | Bangladesh | January 17, 1972 | Quamrul Hassan | Green field with a large red disk shifted slightly to the hoist side of center. | — | |
| Barbados | Barbados | 2:3 | November 30, 1966 | Grantley Prescod | Three equal vertical bands of ultramarine blue (hoist side), gold, and ultramarine blue with the head of a black trident centered on the gold band. | |
| Belarus | Belarus | 1:2 | May 1, 2012 | —N/a. | Red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band one-half the width of the red band; a white vertical stripe on the hoist side bears Belarusian national ornamentation in red. | |
| Belgium | Belgium | 13:15 | January 23, 1831 | Édouard Ducpétiaux Lucien Jottrand | Three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), yellow, and red. | |
| Belize | Belize | 3:5 | September 21, 1981 | Everal Waight Inéz Sánchez | Royal blue with a narrow red stripe along the top and the bottom edges; centered is a large white disk bearing the coat of arms. | |
| Benin | Benin | 2:3 | August 1, 1960 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of yellow (top) and red with a vertical green band on the hoist side. | |
| Bhutan | Bhutan | June 8, 1972 | Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji | Divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is yellow and the lower triangle is orange; centered along the dividing line is a large black and white Druk facing away from the hoist side. | — | |
| Civil flag of Bolivia | Bolivia | August 5, 2009 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), yellow, and green. | — | |
| State flag of Bolivia | —N/a | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Bolivia centered wholly in the yellow band | — | — | — | — |
| Wiphala | 1:1 | Germán Choquehuanca | A grid of 49 squares distributed in 7 columns by 7 rows, arranged in diagonal bands of 7 colors (white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green) with white on the main diagonal. | — | — | — |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:2 | February 4, 1998 | Mladen Kolobarić Nedo Milčević Sado Musabegović Marco Oršolić Ranko Risokević Vehid Šehić Gajo Sekulić | A wide blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top of the flag; the remainder of the flag is blue with seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom along the hypotenuse of the triangle. | |
| Botswana | Botswana | 2:3 | September 30, 1966 | George Winstanley | Light blue with a horizontal white-edged black stripe in the center. | |
| Brazil | Brazil | 7:10 | May 11, 1992 | Miguel Lemos Manuel Pereira Reis Raimundo Teixeira Mendes Décio Villares | Green with a large yellow diamond in the center bearing a blue globe with 27 white stars (one for each state and the Federal District) arranged as in the sky over Rio de Janeiro at 8:30 a.m. on November 15, 1889, and containing a banner with the national motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO (lit. 'Order and progress'). | |
| Brunei | Brunei | 1:2 | January 1, 1984 | —N/a | Yellow with two diagonal bands of white (top, almost double width) and black starting from the upper hoist side; the national emblem in red is superimposed at the center. | |
| Bulgaria | Bulgaria | 3:5 | November 27, 1990 | Stiliana Paraskevova Ivan Paraskevov | Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), green, and red. | |
| Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | 2:3 | August 4, 1984 | Ferdinand Dabiré | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a yellow five-pointed star in the center. | |
| Burundi | Burundi | 3:5 | September 27, 1982 | —N/a | Divided by a white diagonal cross into red panels (top and bottom) and green panels (hoist side and fly side) with a white disk superimposed at the center bearing three red six-pointed stars outlined in green arranged in a triangular design (one star above, two stars below). | |
| Cambodia | Cambodia | 2:3 | June 30, 1993 | —N/a | Three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (double width), and blue with a white, three-towered temple, representing Angkor Wat, outlined in black in the center of the red band. | |
| Cameroon | Cameroon | May 20, 1975 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), red, and yellow, with a yellow five-pointed star centered in the red band. | — | |
| Canada | Canada | 1:2 | February 15, 1965 | George Stanley | Two vertical bands of red (hoist and fly side, half width) with a white square between them; an 11-pointed red maple leaf is centered in the white square. | |
| Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 10:17 | September 25, 1992 | Pedro Gregório | Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 of the length of the flag from the hoist side. | |
| Central African Republic | Central African Republic | 3:5 | August 13, 1960 | Barthélemy Boganda | Four equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, green, and yellow with a vertical red band in center; a yellow five-pointed star to the hoist side of the blue band. | |
| Chad | Chad | 2:3 | November 6, 1959 | Naiyia Amina Goudja | Three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), gold, and red. | |
| Chile | Chile | October 18, 1817 | Unclear | Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; a blue square the same height as the white band at the hoist-side end of the white band; the square bears a white five-pointed star in the center. | — | |
| China | China | October 1, 1949 | Zeng Liansong | Red with a large yellow five-pointed star and four smaller yellow five-pointed stars (arranged in a vertical arc toward the middle of the flag) in the upper hoist-side corner. | — | |
| Colombia | Colombia | November 26, 1861 | —N/a | Three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double-width), blue, and red. | — | |
| Comoros | Comoros | 3:5 | December 23, 2001 | Suzanne Gauthier | Four equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), white, red, and blue, with a green isosceles triangle based on the hoist; centered within the triangle is a vertical white crescent moon with the convex side facing the hoist and four white, five-pointed stars placed vertically in a line between the points of the crescent. | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3:4 | February 18, 2006 | Henry Morton Stanley (allegedly) | Sky blue field divided diagonally from the lower hoist corner to upper fly corner by a red stripe bordered by two narrow yellow stripes; a yellow, five-pointed star appears in the upper hoist corner | |
| Republic of the Congo | Republic of the Congo | 2:3 | June 10, 1991 | —N/a | Divided diagonally from the lower hoist side by a yellow band; the upper triangle (hoist side) is green and the lower triangle is red. | |
| National flag of Costa Rica | Costa Rica | 3:5 | September 29, 1848 | Pacífica Fernández Oreamuno | Five horizontal bands of blue (top), white, red (double width), white, and blue. | |
| State flag of Costa Rica | May 5, 1998 | —N/a | The civil flag, with the coat of arms of Costa Rica in a white elliptical disk placed toward the hoist side wholly within the red band | — | — | — |
| Croatia | Croatia | 1:2 | December 22, 1990 | Miroslav Šutej | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue superimposed by the coat of arms. | |
| Cuba | Cuba | May 20, 1902 | Miguel Teurbe Tolón | Five equal horizontal bands of blue (top, center, and bottom) alternating with white; a red equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bears a white, five-pointed star in the center. | — | |
| Cyprus | Cyprus | 2:3 | April 24, 2006 | İsmet Güney | Centered on a white field is a copper-colored silhouette of the island above two olive-green-colored, crossed olive branches. | |
| Czech Republic | Czech Republic | January 1, 1993 | Jaroslav Kursa (allegedly) | Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side. | — | |
| Civil flag of Denmark | Denmark | 28:37 | June 15, 1219 | —N/a | Red with a white Nordic cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. | |
| State flag of Denmark | 56:107 | June 11, 1748 | —N/a | Civil flag of Denmark in a swallowtail (flag) shape | — | — |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | 2:3 | June 27, 1977 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of light blue (top) and light green with a white isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bearing a red five-pointed star in the center. | |
| Dominica | Dominica | 1:2 | November 3, 1990 | Alwin Bully | Green with a centered cross of three equal bands - the vertical part is yellow (hoist side), black, and white and the horizontal part is yellow (top), black, and white; superimposed in the center of the cross is a red disk bearing a Sisserou parrot, unique to Dominica, encircled by 10 green, five-pointed stars edged in yellow. | |
| Civil flag of the Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic | 2:3 | November 6, 1844 | Juan Pablo Duarte | A centered white cross that extends to the edges divides the flag into four rectangles − the top ones are ultramarine blue (hoist side) and vermilion red, and the bottom ones are vermilion red (hoist side) and ultramarine blue | |
| State flag of the Dominican Republic | The civil flag with a small coat of arms of the Dominican Republic at the center of the cross | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ecuador | Ecuador | 2:3 | January 10, 1910 | —N/a | Three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double width), blue, and red with the coat of arms superimposed at the center of the flag. | |
| Egypt | Egypt | October 4, 1984 | ʻAlī Kāmil al-Dīb | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; the national coat of arms (a gold Eagle of Saladin facing the hoist side with a shield superimposed on its chest above a scroll bearing the name of the country in Arabic) centered in the white band. | — | |
| Civil flag of El Salvador | El Salvador | 3:5 | 1912 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of cobalt blue (top), white, and cobalt blue with the words ""DIOS UNION LIBERTAD" centered in the white band | |
| State flag of El Salvador | 189:335 | September 14, 1972 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of cobalt blue (top), white, and cobalt blue with the national coat of arms centered in the white band | — | — |
| Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea | 2:3 | August 21, 1979 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red, with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, JUSTICIA (lit. 'Unity, Peace, Justice'). | |
| Eritrea | Eritrea | 1:2 | December 5, 1995 | —N/a | Red isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) dividing the flag into two right triangles; the upper triangle is green, the lower one is blue; a gold wreath encircling a gold olive branch is centered on the hoist side of the red triangle. | |
| Estonia | Estonia | 7:11 | November 21, 1918 | Aleksander Mõttus | Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white. | |
| Eswatini | Eswatini | 2:3 | September 6, 1968 | Sobhuza II | Three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (triple width), and blue; the red band is edged in yellow; centered in the red band is a large black and white Nguni shield covering two spears and a staff decorated with feather tassels, all placed horizontally. | |
| Ethiopia | Ethiopia | 1:2 | February 6, 1996 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, and red, with a yellow pentagram and single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points on a light blue disk centered on the three bands. | |
| Fiji | Fiji | October 10, 1970 | Tessa Mackenzie | Light blue with the flag of the United Kingdom in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Fijian shield centered on the outer half of the flag; the shield is taken from Fiji's coat of arms. | — | |
| Civil flag of Finland | Finland | 11:18 | January 1, 1995 | Zacharias Topelius | White with a blue Nordic cross. | |
| State flag of Finland | 1978 | The civil flag with a red square bearing the coat of arms of Finland in the intersection between the two lines of the cross | — | — | — | — |
| France | France | 2:3 | March 5, 1848 | Jacques-Louis David | Three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), white, and red. | |
| Gabon | Gabon | 3:4 | August 9, 1960 | Léon Augé Pierre Claver Eyeghe | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, and blue. | |
| Gambia | The Gambia | 2:3 | February 18, 1965 | Louis Lucien Thomasi | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), blue with white edges, and green. | |
| Georgia | Georgia | January 14, 2004 | —N/a | White rectangle with a central red cross extending to all four sides of the flag; each of the four quadrants displays a small red bolnur-katskhuri cross. | — | |
| Civil flag of Germany | Germany | 3:5 | October 3, 1990 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and gold | |
| State flag of Germany | —N/a | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Germany in the center as a variant | — | — | — | — |
| Ghana | Ghana | 2:3 | February 28, 1966 | Theodosia Okoh | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), yellow, and green, with a large black five-pointed star centered in the yellow band. | |
| Greece | Greece | December 22, 1978 | —N/a | Nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white; a blue square bearing a white cross appears in the upper hoist-side corner. | — | |
| Grenada | Grenada | 3:5 | February 7, 1974 | Anthony C. George | A rectangle divided diagonally into yellow triangles (top and bottom) and green triangles (hoist side and outer side), with a red border around the flag; there are seven yellow, five-pointed stars with three centered in the top red border, three centered in the bottom red border, and one on a red disk superimposed at the center of the flag; there is also a symbolic nutmeg pod on the hoist-side triangle. | |
| Civil flag of Guatemala | Guatemala | 5:8 | December 26, 1997 | Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol | Three equal vertical bands of light blue (hoist side), white, and light blue | |
| State flag of Guatemala | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Guatemala centered in the white band | — | — | — | — | — |
| Guinea | Guinea | 2:3 | November 10, 1958 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of red (hoist side), yellow, and green. | |
| Guinea-Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | 1:2 | September 24, 1973 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of yellow (top) and green with a vertical red band on the hoist side; there is a black five-pointed star centered in the red band. | |
| Guyana | Guyana | 3:5 | May 26, 1966 | Whitney Smith | Green with a red isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) superimposed on a long, yellow arrowhead; there is a narrow, black border between the red and yellow, and a narrow, white border between the yellow and the green. | |
| Civil flag of Haiti | Haiti | 3:5 | February 25, 1986 | Jean-Jacques Dessalines | Two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red | |
| State flag of Haiti | The civil flag with a centered white rectangle bearing the Coat of arms of Haiti | — | — | — | — | — |
| Honduras | Honduras | 1:2 | January 18, 1949 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue, with five blue, five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered in the white band. | |
| Hungary | Hungary | May 23, 1957 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and green. | — | |
| Civil flag of Iceland | Iceland | 18:25 | June 17, 1944 | Matthías Þórðarson | Blue with a red cross outlined in white extending to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Nordic cross. | |
| State flag of Iceland | 9:16 | The civil flag of Iceland in a swallowtail (flag) shape | — | — | — | — |
| India | India | 2:3 | July 22, 1947 | Pingali Venkayya | Three equal horizontal bands of saffron (subdued orange) (top), white, and green, with a blue chakra (24-spoked wheel) centered in the white band. | |
| Indonesia | Indonesia | August 17, 1950 | Fatmawati (allegedly) | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and white. | — | |
| Iran | Iran | 4:7 | July 29, 1980 | Hamid Nadimi | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red; the national emblem in red is centered in the white band; the Takbir in white Arabic script is repeated 11 times along the bottom edge of the green band and 11 times along the top edge of the red band. | |
| Iraq | Iraq | 2:3 | January 22, 2008 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; the Takbir in green Arabic script is centered in the white band. | |
| Ireland | Ireland | 1:2 | December 29, 1937 | Thomas Francis Meagher | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and orange. | |
| Israel | Israel | 8:11 | October 28, 1948 | Charles Askowith Jacob Askowith | White with a blue hexagram known as the Star of David centered between two equal horizontal blue bands near the top and bottom edges of the flag. | |
| Italy | Italy | 2:3 | January 1, 1948 | Giuseppe Compagnoni | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and red. | |
| Ivory Coast | Ivory Coast | December 3, 1959 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of orange (hoist side), white, and green. | — | |
| Jamaica | Jamaica | 1:2 | August 6, 1962 | —N/a | Diagonal yellow cross divides the flag into four triangles - green (top and bottom) and black (hoist side and fly side). | |
| Japan | Japan | 2:3 | August 13, 1999 | Nichiren (allegedly) | White with a large red disk in the center. | |
| Jordan | Jordan | 1:2 | April 16, 1928 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), white, and green; a red isosceles triangle on the hoist side, and bearing a small white seven-pointed star. | |
| Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | June 4, 1992 | Shaken Niyazbekov | A gold sun with 32 rays above a soaring golden steppe eagle, both centered on a sky blue background; the hoist side displays a national ornamental pattern "koshkar-muiz" (the horns of the ram) in gold. | — | |
| Kenya | Kenya | 2:3 | December 12, 1963 | Tom Mboya | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red band is edged in white; a large Maasai warrior's shield covering crossed spears is superimposed at the center. | |
| Kiribati | Kiribati | 1:2 | July 12, 1979 | Arthur Grimble | The upper half is red with a yellow frigatebird flying over a yellow rising sun, and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the Pacific ocean. | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait | November 7, 1961 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a black trapezoid based on the hoist side. | — | |
| Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan | 3:5 | December 26, 2023 | —N/a | Red field with a yellow sun in the center having 40 rays; in the center of the sun is a red ring crossed by two sets of four lines, a stylized representation of a "tunduk" - the crown of a traditional Kyrgyz yurt. | |
| Laos | Laos | 2:3 | December 2, 1975 | Sila Viravong | Three horizontal bands of red (top), blue (double width), and red with a large white disk centered in the blue band. | |
| Latvia | Latvia | 1:2 | August 21, 1991 | Ansis Cīrulis | Three horizontal bands of maroon (top), white (half-width), and maroon. | |
| Lebanon | Lebanon | 2:3 | September 21, 1990 | Henri Pharaoun | Three horizontal bands consisting of red (top), white (middle, double width), and red (bottom) with a green cedar tree centered in the white band. | |
| Lesotho | Lesotho | October 4, 2006 | —N/a | Three horizontal stripes of blue (top), white, and green in the proportions of 3:4:3; centered in the white stripe is a black mokorotlo, a traditional Basotho straw hat. | — | |
| Liberia | Liberia | 10:19 | August 24, 1847 | Susannah Lewis (lead) Sarah Draper Mary Hunter Rachel Johnson Matilda Newport J. B. Russworm Collinette Teage | 11 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a white five-pointed star appears on a blue square in the upper hoist-side corner | |
| Libya | Libya | 1:2 | August 3, 2011 | Omar Faiek Shennib | Three horizontal bands of red (top), black (double width), and green with a white crescent and star centered on the black stripe. | |
| Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | 3:5 | September 18, 1982 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red with a gold crown on the hoist side of the blue band. | |
| Lithuania | Lithuania | March 20, 1989 | Jonas Basanavičius Tadas Daugirdas Antanas Žmuidzinavičius | Three equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), green, and red. | — | |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 3:5 | March 17, 1972 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and light blue. | |
| Madagascar | Madagascar | 2:3 | October 21, 1958 | Andrianome Ranaivosoa | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a vertical white band of the same width on hoist side. | |
| Malawi | Malawi | May 28, 2012 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green with a radiant, rising, red sun centered on the black band. | — | |
| Malaysia | Malaysia | 1:2 | September 16, 1963 | Mohamed Hamzah | 14 equal horizontal stripes of red (top) alternating with white (bottom); there is a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a yellow crescent and a yellow 14-pointed star. | |
| Maldives | Maldives | 2:3 | July 26, 1965 | —N/a | Red with a large green rectangle in the center bearing a vertical white crescent moon; the closed side of the crescent is on the hoist side of the flag. | |
| Mali | Mali | March 1, 1961 | Mariam Traore | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and red. | — | |
| Malta | Malta | September 21, 1964 | —N/a | Two equal vertical bands of white (hoist side) and red; in the upper hoist-side corner is a representation of the George Cross, edged in red. | — | |
| Marshall Islands | Marshall Islands | 10:19 | May 1, 1979 | Emlain Kabua | Blue with two stripes radiating from the lower hoist-side corner - orange (top) and white; a white star with four large rays and 20 small rays appears on the hoist side above the two stripes. | |
| Mauritania | Mauritania | 2:3 | October 12, 2017 | —N/a | Green with a yellow, five-pointed star between the horns of a yellow, upward-pointing crescent moon; red stripes along the top and bottom edges. | |
| Mauritius | Mauritius | March 12, 1968 | Gurudutt Moher | Four equal horizontal bands of red (top), blue, yellow, and green. | — | |
| Mexico | Mexico | 4:7 | September 16, 1968 | Francisco Eppens (coat of arms) | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and red; Mexico's coat of arms (an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus) is centered in the white band. | |
| Micronesia | Micronesia | 10:19 | November 30, 1978 | Gonzalo Santos (initial version) | Light blue with four white five-pointed stars centered. | |
| Moldova | Moldova | 1:2 | September 17, 2010 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of Prussian blue (hoist side), chrome yellow, and vermilion red; the coat of arms is centered in the yellow band. | |
| Monaco | Monaco | 4:5 | April 9, 1881 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and white. | |
| Mongolia | Mongolia | 1:2 | February 12, 1992 | Dodiin Choidog | Three, equal vertical bands of red (hoist side), blue, and red; centered on the hoist-side red band in yellow is the national emblem ("soyombo" - a columnar arrangement of abstract and geometric representation for fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and the yin-yang symbol). | |
| Montenegro | Montenegro | September 16, 2004 | —N/a | A red field bordered by a narrow golden-yellow stripe with the Montenegrin coat of arms centered; the arms consist of a double-headed golden eagle - symbolizing the unity of church and state - surmounted by a crown; the eagle holds a golden scepter in its right claw and a blue orb in its left; the breast shield over the eagle shows a golden lion passant on a green field in front of a blue sky. | — | |
| Morocco | Morocco | 2:3 | April 7, 1956 | Disputed | Red with a green pentacle (five-pointed, linear star) known as the Seal of Solomon in the center of the flag. | |
| Mozambique | Mozambique | May 1, 1983 | Jorge Mwanamuzik (allegedly; initial version) | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), black, and yellow with a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; the black band is edged in white; centered in the triangle is a yellow five-pointed star bearing a crossed rifle and hoe in black superimposed on an open white book. | — | |
| Myanmar | Myanmar | October 21, 2010 | —N/a | Design consists of three equal horizontal stripes of yellow (top), green, and red; centered on the green band is a large white five-pointed star that partially overlaps onto the adjacent colored stripes. | — | |
| Namibia | Namibia | March 21, 1990 | Frederick Brownell | A wide red stripe edged by narrow white stripes divides the flag diagonally from lower hoist corner to upper fly corner; the upper hoist-side triangle is blue and charged with a golden-yellow, 12-rayed sunburst. | — | |
| Nauru | Nauru | 1:2 | January 31, 1968 | —N/a | Blue with a narrow, horizontal, gold stripe across the center and a large white 12-pointed star below the stripe on the hoist side. | |
| Nepal | Nepal | See Flag of Nepal § Aspect ratio ≈ 1.219:1 | December 16, 1962 | Shankar Nath Rimal | Crimson red with a blue border around the unique shape of two overlapping right triangles; the smaller, upper triangle bears a white stylized moon and the larger, lower triangle displays a white 12-pointed sun. | |
| Netherlands | Netherlands | 2:3 | February 19, 1937 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (bright vermilion; top), white, and blue (cobalt). | |
| New Zealand | New Zealand | 1:2 | November 25, 1947 | Albert Hastings Markham | Blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant with four red five-pointed stars edged in white centered in the outer half of the flag. | |
| Nicaragua | Nicaragua | 3:5 | August 27, 1972 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue with the national coat of arms centered in the white band. | |
| Niger | Niger | 6:7 | August 3, 1960 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of orange (top), white, and green with a small orange disk centered in the white band. | |
| Nigeria | Nigeria | 1:2 | October 1, 1960 | Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and green. | |
| North Korea | North Korea | September 8, 1942 | Disputed | Three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (triple width), and blue; the red band is edged in white; on the hoist side of the red band is a white disk with a red five-pointed star. | — | |
| North Macedonia | North Macedonia | October 5, 1995 | Miroslav Grčev | A yellow sun (the Sun of Liberty) with eight broadening rays extending to the edges of the red field. | — | |
| National flag of Norway | Norway | 8:11 | July 13, 1821 | Meltzer Fredrik | Red with a blue cross outlined in white that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Nordic cross. | |
| State flag of Norway | 16:27 | The civil flag of Norway in a tongued swallowtail (flag) shape | — | — | — | — |
| Oman | Oman | 4:7 | April 25, 1995 | Qaboos bin Sa'id Al-Sa'id | Three horizontal bands of white (top), red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered near the top of the vertical band. | |
| Pakistan | Pakistan | 2:3 | August 14, 1947 | Syed Amir-uddin Kedwaii | Green with a vertical white band on the hoist side; a large white crescent and star are centered in the green field. | |
| Palau | Palau | 5:8 | October 1, 1994 | Blau Skebong | Light blue with a large yellow disk shifted slightly to the hoist side. | |
| Palestine | Palestine | 1:2 | November 15, 1988 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), white, and green with a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side. | |
| Panama | Panama | 2:3 | June 6, 1904 | Disputed | Divided into four, equal rectangles; the top quadrants are white (hoist side) with a blue five-pointed star in the center and plain red; the bottom quadrants are plain blue (hoist side) and white with a red five-pointed star in the center. | |
| Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea | 3:4 | September 16, 1975 | Karike Susan | Divided diagonally from upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red with a soaring yellow bird of paradise centered; the lower triangle is black with five, white, five-pointed stars of the Southern Cross constellation centered. | |
| Paraguay (obverse) | Paraguay | 11:20 | July 15, 2013 | —N/a | Three equal, horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue with an emblem centered in the white band; the emblem is different on each side; the obverse (hoist side at the left) bears the national coat of arms; the reverse (hoist side at the right) bears a circular seal of the treasury. | |
| Paraguay (reverse) | —N/a | — | — | — | — | — |
| Civil flag of Peru | Peru | 2:3 | February 25, 1825 | José de San Martín (initial version) | Three equal, vertical bands alternating red, white, red | |
| State flag of Peru | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Peru centered in the white band. | — | — | — | — | — |
| Philippines | Philippines | 1:2 | September 16, 1997 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red; a white equilateral triangle is based on the hoist side; the center of the triangle displays a yellow sun with eight primary rays; each corner of the triangle contains a small, yellow, five-pointed star. | |
| National flag of Poland | Poland | 5:8 | August 1, 1919 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red | |
| State flag and Civil flag of Poland | —N/a | The civil flag defaced with the coat of arms of Poland wholly within the white stripe | — | — | — | — |
| Portugal | Portugal | 2:3 | June 11, 1911 | Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro | Two vertical bands of green (hoist side, two-fifths) and red (three-fifths) with the national coat of arms (armillary sphere and Portuguese shield) centered on the dividing line. | |
| Qatar | Qatar | 11:28 | July 9, 1971 | Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani | Maroon with a broad white serrated band (nine white points) on the hoist side. | |
| Romania | Romania | 2:3 | December 27, 1989 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of cobalt blue (hoist side), chrome yellow, and vermilion red. | |
| Russia | Russia | December 11, 1991 | Peter I of Russia | Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red. | — | |
| Rwanda | Rwanda | December 31, 2001 | Alphonse Kirimobenecyo | Three horizontal bands of sky blue (top, double width), yellow, and green, with a golden sun with 24 rays near the fly end of the blue band. | — | |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Kitts and Nevis | November 19, 1983 | Edrice Lewis | Divided diagonally from the lower hoist side by a broad black band bearing two white, five-pointed stars; the black band is edged in yellow; the upper triangle is green, the lower triangle is red. | — | |
| Saint Lucia | Saint Lucia | 1:2 | February 22, 1979 | Dunstan St. Omer | Cerulean blue with a gold isosceles triangle below a black arrowhead; the upper edges of the arrowhead have a white border. | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2:3 | October 22, 1985 | Julien van der Wal | Three vertical bands of blue (hoist side), gold (double width), and green; the gold band bears three green diamonds arranged in a V pattern. | |
| Samoa | Samoa | 1:2 | January 1, 1962 | Malietoa Tanumafili II Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole | Red with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side quadrant bearing five white, five-pointed stars representing the Southern Cross constellation. | |
| San Marino | San Marino | 3:4 | July 22, 2011 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and light blue with the national coat of arms superimposed in the center; the main colors derive from the shield of the coat of arms, which features three white towers on three peaks on a blue field; the towers represent three castles built on San Marino's highest feature, Mount Titano: Guaita, Cesta, and Montale; the coat of arms is flanked by a wreath, below a crown and above a scroll bearing the word LIBERTAS (lit. 'liberty'). | |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1:2 | November 5, 1975 | Manuel Pinto da Costa | Three horizontal bands of green (top), yellow (double width), and green with two black five-pointed stars placed side by side in the center of the yellow band and a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side. | |
| Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | 2:3 | March 15, 1973 | —N/a | Green with the Shahada in large white Thuluth script. Hoist side depicted to right. | |
| Senegal | Senegal | August 20, 1960 | —N/a | Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and red with a small green five-pointed star centered in the yellow band. | — | |
| Civil flag of Serbia | Serbia | 3:5 | November 11, 2010 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal stripes of red (top), blue, and white | |
| State flag of Serbia | 2:3 | The civil flag charged with the coat of arms of Serbia shifted slightly to the hoist side; the principal field of the coat of arms displays a white two-headed eagle on a red shield; a smaller red shield on the eagle is divided into four quarters by a white cross | — | — | — | — |
| Seychelles | Seychelles | 1:2 | June 18, 1996 | Philippe Uzice | Five oblique bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, red, white, and green (bottom) radiating from the bottom of the hoist side. | |
| Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone | 2:3 | April 27, 1961 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white, and light blue. | |
| Singapore | Singapore | August 9, 1965 | Toh Chin Chye | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and white; near the hoist side of the red band, there is a vertical, white crescent (closed portion is toward the hoist side) partially enclosing five white five-pointed stars arranged in a circle. | — | |
| Slovakia | Slovakia | January 1, 1993 | Ladislav Čisárik (current design) Ladislav Vrtel (current design) | Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red; the Slovakian coat of arms (consisting of a red shield bordered in white and bearing a white double-barred cross of Cyril and Methodius surmounting three blue hills) is centered over the bands but offset slightly to the hoist side. | — | |
| Slovenia | Slovenia | 1:2 | June 25, 1991 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red; the coat of arms of Slovenia (a shield with the image of Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the center; beneath it are two wavy blue lines depicting seas and rivers, and above it are three six-pointed stars arranged in an inverted triangle) appears in the upper hoist side of the flag centered on the white and blue bands. | |
| Solomon Islands | Solomon Islands | July 7, 1978 | Disputed | Divided diagonally by a thin yellow stripe from the lower hoist-side corner; the upper triangle (hoist side) is blue with five white five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern; the lower triangle is green. | — | |
| Somalia | Somalia | 2:3 | July 1, 1960 | Mohammed Awale Liban | Light blue with a large white five-pointed star in the center. | |
| South Africa | South Africa | April 27, 1994 | Frederick Brownell | Two equal width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a central green band that splits into a horizontal Y, the arms of which end at the corners of the hoist side; the Y embraces a black isosceles triangle from which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the red and blue bands are separated from the green band and its arms by narrow white stripes. | — | |
| South Korea | South Korea | May 30, 2011 | Lee Eung-jun | White with a red (top) and blue taijitu in the center; there is a different black trigram from the I Ching in each corner of the white field. | — | |
| South Sudan | South Sudan | 1:2 | July 9, 2011 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red band is edged in white; a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side contains a gold, five-pointed star. | |
| Civil flag of Spain | Spain | 2:3 | 1978 | Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán | Three horizontal bands of red (top), yellow (double width), and red | |
| National flag of Spain | October 28, 1981 | The civil flag with the national coat of arms of Spain on the hoist side of the yellow band. | — | — | — | — |
| Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | 1:2 | May 22, 1972 | D.S. Senanayake | Yellow with two panels; the smaller hoist-side panel has two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and orange; the other larger panel depicts a yellow lion holding a sword on a maroon rectangular field that also displays a yellow bo leaf in each corner; the yellow field appears as a border around the entire flag and extends between the two panels. | |
| Sudan | Sudan | May 20, 1970 | Abd al-Raḥman Aḥmad al-Jali | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black with a green isosceles triangle based on the hoist side. | — | |
| Suriname | Suriname | 2:3 | November 25, 1975 | Jack Pinas | Five horizontal bands of green (top, double width), white, red (quadruple width), white, and green (double width); a large, yellow, five-pointed star is centered in the red band. | |
| Sweden | Sweden | 5:8 | June 22, 1906 | —N/a | Blue with a golden yellow cross extending to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Nordic cross. | |
| Switzerland | Switzerland | 1:1 | December 12, 1889 | —N/a | Red square with a bold, equilateral white cross in the center that does not extend to the edges of the flag. | |
| Syria | Syria | 2:3 | December 8, 2024 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of green, white, and black; three small, red, five-pointed stars in a horizontal line centered in the white band. | |
| Tajikistan | Tajikistan | 1:2 | November 24, 1992 | Zuhur Habibullaev | Three horizontal stripes of red (top), a wider stripe of white, and green; a gold crown surmounted by seven gold, five-pointed stars is located in the center of the white stripe. | |
| Tanzania | Tanzania | 2:3 | June 30, 1964 | —N/a | Divided diagonally by a yellow-edged black band from the lower hoist-side corner; the upper triangle (hoist side) is green and the lower triangle is blue. | |
| Thailand | Thailand | September 28, 1917 | Vajiravudh | Five horizontal bands of red (top), white, blue (double width), white, and red. | — | |
| Timor-Leste | Timor-Leste | 1:2 | May 20, 2002 | Natalino Leitão | Red with a black isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) superimposed on a slightly longer yellow arrowhead that extends to the center of the flag; a white star - pointing to the upper hoist-side corner of the flag - is in the center of the black triangle. | |
| Togo | Togo | 1:φ (1:~1.618) | April 27, 1960 | Paul Ahyi | Five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow; a white five-pointed star on a red square is in the upper hoist-side corner. | |
| Tonga | Tonga | 1:2 | November 4, 1875 | Shirley Waldemar Baker | Red with a bold red cross on a white rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner. | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago | 3:5 | August 31, 1962 | Carlisle Chang | Red with a white-edged black diagonal band from the upper hoist side to the lower fly side. | |
| Tunisia | Tunisia | 2:3 | July 3, 1999 | —N/a | Red with a white disk in the center bearing a red crescent nearly encircling a red five-pointed star. | |
| Turkey | Turkey | May 29, 1936 | —N/a | Red with a vertical white crescent moon (the closed portion is toward the hoist side) and white five-pointed star centered just outside the crescent opening. | — | |
| Turkmenistan | Turkmenistan | January 24, 2001 | —N/a | Green field with a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five tribal guls stacked above two crossed olive branches; five white, five-pointed stars and a white crescent moon appear in the upper corner of the field just to the fly side of the red stripe. | — | |
| Tuvalu | Tuvalu | 1:2 | April 11, 1997 | Vione Natano | Light blue with the flag of the United Kingdom in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with nine yellow, five-pointed stars on a blue field. | |
| Uganda | Uganda | 2:3 | October 9, 1962 | Grace Ibingira | Six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and depicts a grey crowned crane (the national symbol) facing the hoist side. | |
| Ukraine | Ukraine | January 21, 1992 | —N/a | Two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow. | — | |
| United Arab Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 1:2 | December 2, 1971 | Abdullah Mohammed Al Maainah | Three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and black with a wider vertical red band on the hoist side. | |
| United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 1:2 | January 1, 1801 | —N/a | Blue field on which the Cross of Saint Andrew counterchanged with the Cross of Saint Patrick, over all the Cross of Saint George fimbriated in white. | |
| United States | United States | 10:19 | July 4, 1960 | Disputed | 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. | |
| National Pavilion | Uruguay | 2:3 | July 11, 1830 | Joaquín Suárez | Nine equal horizontal stripes of white (top and bottom) alternating with blue; a white square in the upper hoist-side corner with a yellow sun bearing a human face (delineated in black) known as the Sun of May with 16 rays that alternate between triangular and wavy. | |
| Artigas flag | February 18, 1952; | José Gervasio Artigas and José María de Roo | Three horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue with a Red Diagonal Stripe | — | — | — |
| Flag of the Treinta y Tres | —N/a | Three horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and red. Upon the white band are printed the words Libertad o Muerte ('Freedom or Death'). | — | — | — | — |
| Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan | 1:2 | November 18, 1991 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and green separated by red fimbriations with a vertical, white crescent moon (closed side to the hoist) and 12 white, five-pointed stars shifted to the hoist on the top band. | |
| Vanuatu | Vanuatu | 3:5 | July 30, 1980 | Kalontas Malon | Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a black isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) all separated by a black-edged yellow stripe in the shape of a horizontal Y (the two points of the Y face the hoist side and enclose the triangle); centered in the triangle is a boar's tusk encircling two crossed namele fern fronds, all in yellow. | |
| Vatican City | Vatican City | 1:1 | June 7, 1929 | —N/a | Two vertical bands of yellow (hoist side) and white with the arms of the Holy See, consisting of the crossed keys of Saint Peter surmounted by the three-tiered papal tiara, centered in the white band. | |
| Civil flag of Venezuela | Venezuela | 2:3 | March 9, 2006 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), blue, and red with the central blue band defaced by an arc of eight white five-pointed stars. | |
| State flag of Venezuela | —N/a | The civil flag with the coat of arms of Venezuela on the hoist side of the upper (yellow) band. | — | — | — | — |
| Vietnam | Vietnam | July 2, 1976 | Disputed | Red field with a large yellow five-pointed star in the center. | — | |
| Yemen | Yemen | May 22, 1990 | —N/a | Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black. | — | |
| Zambia | Zambia | April 13, 1996 | Gabriel Ellison | Green field with a panel of three vertical bands of red (hoist side), black, and orange below a soaring orange eagle, on the outer edge of the flag. | — | |
| Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | 1:2 | April 18, 1980 | Cedric Herbert | Seven equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe Bird is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle. |
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