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List of flag names
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This is a list of flag names and nicknames, including both official designations and widely used informal names. Entries are presented in a sortable table by flag name; where given, the “Meaning and notes” column provides translations, explanations, and other contextual information.
List
| Flag name / nickname | Country / territory | Meaning and notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Brazil | "The Gold and Green" | ||
| Greenland | Greenland | "The red" | ||
| Qatar | Qatar | "Support flag" | ||
| Kuwait | Kuwait | "My country's flag" | ||
| Kurdistan | Iraqi Kurdistan | "Colourful flag" | ||
| Turkey | Turkey | "Red Flag" | ||
| Turkey | Turkey | "Holy Red Standard" | ||
| Turkey | Turkey | "Crescent Star" | ||
| Argentina or La Celeste y Blanca | Argentina | "The white and light blue one" | ||
| Ba'athist Syria | United Arab Republic and Ba'athist Syria | "The Two Stars" | ||
| Brazil | Brazil | "Gold and green flag" | ||
| Portugal | Portugal | "Flag of the quinas", the five blue shields of the Portuguese arms | ||
| Portugal | Portugal | "Green-Red Flag" | ||
| Wales (unofficial flag) | "Flag of Saint David" | |||
| Cornwall | Cornwall | "St. Piran's flag" | ||
| California | California | |||
| Indonesia | Indonesia | "Red-White Flag" | ||
| United States | ||||
| Maratha Empire | Flag of the Hindus and former flag of the Maratha Empire | "The Saffron Banner" | ||
| Poland | Poland | "White-Red" | ||
| Belarus | Belarus (formerly) | "White-Red-White" | ||
| Austria | Austria | |||
| Jamaica | Jamaica | |||
| Confederate States of America | Confederate States | |||
| Libya | Libya | "Flag of the Star and the Crescent" | ||
| Republic of West Florida | official flag of the now-defunct Republic of West Florida, also used in some places as an unofficial banner of the Confederate States. | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly) | "Bosnian lily" | ||
| Scotland | Scotland | "Saltire" | ||
| Barbados | Barbados | |||
| Germany | Germany | "Federal Flag", Germany, official designation | ||
| Bulgaria/Balgarski Trikolyor | Bulgaria | "Bulgarian Three Colors" | ||
| Europe | European Union and the Council of Europe | |||
| Australia | Australia | |||
| United States (historical) | ||||
| United Colonies | ||||
| United Colonies | ||||
| Vietnam | Vietnam | "Red Flag and Yellow Star" | ||
| Vietnam | Vietnam | "Flag of Fatherland" | ||
| Scotland | Scotland | "St. Andrew's Cross" | ||
| Occitania | Occitania | "Occitan cross" | ||
| Jamaica | Jamaica | |||
| Denmark | Denmark | "Danish cloth" | ||
| Kuwait | Kuwait | "My Nation/Land" | ||
| Greenland | Greenland | "Our flag" | ||
| Chile | Chile | "The Lone Star" | ||
| Cuba | Cuba | "The Lone Star" | ||
| Catalonia (pro-independence) | "Blue-Starred Flag" | |||
| Galician nationalism | "Starred Flag" | |||
| Australia (historical) | ||||
| Jain flag | ||||
| Quebec | Quebec, Canada | "Fleur-de-lis-y" | ||
| Greece (Γαλανόλευκη) | Greece | "Blue-and-White" | ||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |||
| Guyana | Guyana | |||
| Brittany | Brittany | "White and black" | ||
| United States | ||||
| United States (historical) | ||||
| Japan | Japan (national flag and naval flag) | "Sun disc" | ||
| (Huánglóngqí) | China (historical) | "Yellow Dragon Flag" | ||
| Iceland | Iceland (historical) | "The White-blue", a flag proposal which was used but never became official | ||
| Russian Empire | Russian Empire (historical flag) | "Imperial flag" | ||
| Confederate States of America | Confederate States | |||
| Malaysia | Malaysia | "Stripes of Glory" | ||
| Jefferson (proposed U.S. state) | ||||
| Hawaii (alternative flag) | "True People" | |||
| (silver fern) | New Zealand (unofficial, widely used) | |||
| Oman | Oman | "Dagger and two swords" | ||
| Georgia | Georgia | "Five-cross flag" | ||
| Soviet Union | Soviet Union (historical flag) | "Red Banner" | ||
| East Turkestan | East Turkestan | "Blue Banner" | ||
| Kenya | Kenya | "Black, white, red, white, green and a shield with two arrows" | ||
| Bangladesh | Bangladesh | "Red & green" | ||
| (Lion Rampant) | Scotland (royal banner) | "Lion Rampant" | ||
| Texas | Texas | |||
| Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | |||
| Canada or l'Unifolié | Canada | |||
| Faroe Islands | "The Banner" | |||
| Indonesia | Indonesia | "Red and White" | ||
| Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico | "Monostarred" | ||
| Oklahoma | ||||
| x | "respected ensign" | |||
| United States | ||||
| Uruguay | Uruguay | "National Pavilionflag" | ||
| Nepal | Nepal | "Mountain" | ||
| Iran | Iran | "The Three-Coloured Flag" | ||
| Pakistan | Pakistan | "Flag of the Star and the Crescent" | ||
| Dutch Republic | Netherlands (historical) | "Prince's flag" | ||
| Hungary | Hungary | "Red-White-Green" | ||
| Philippines | "National Flag" | |||
| Taiwan (Qīng Tiān, Bái Rì, Mǎn Dì Hóng ["Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Field"]) | Taiwan | |||
| South Africa | South Africa | all unofficial | ||
| x | there are several independent rainbow flags in use today, the most widely known worldwide is the pride flag representing gay pride, while the peace flag is especially popular in Italy and the cooperative flag symbolizes the international co-operative movement. | |||
| United States | ||||
| North Korea | North Korea | "Indigo and Red Flag of the Republic" | ||
| United Kingdom (civil ensign) | the civil ensign of the United Kingdom | |||
| Valencia | Valencian Community | "Royal flag" | ||
| Nazi Germany | Germany (historical) | "Reich and National Flag" | ||
| Russia (Rosiiski Trikolor) | Russia | "Russian Three Colours" | ||
| Spain | Spain | "Red-weld" | ||
| Austria | Austria | "Red-white-red" | ||
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg (civil ensign) | "Red Lion" | ||
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg | "Red-White-Blue" | ||
| Belarus (Ručnik) | Belarus | |||
| Norway (Red, white and blue) | Norway | |||
| Pakistan | Pakistan | "Green Flag with Crescent" | ||
| Scotland | Scotland | |||
| England | England | |||
| Devon | Devon | |||
| Laos | Laos | "Tricolor" | ||
| Latvia | Latvia | "Red-white-red flag" | ||
| Indonesia | Indonesia | "The Red White Heritage" | ||
| North Macedonia | Republic of North Macedonia (formerly Republic of Macedonia) (historical flag) | "Sun of Kutleš' | ||
| Germany | Germany | "Black-red-gold" | ||
| German Empire | "Black-white-red" | |||
| Catalonia | Catalonia | |||
| Iran | Iran (historical flag) | 'The lion and the sun" | ||
| Albania | Albania | "The two-headed eagle" | ||
| Estonia | Estonia | "Blue-black-white" | ||
| Finland | Finland | "Blue Cross Flag" | ||
| Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | "Lion Flag" | ||
| Tibet | Tibet | |||
| Confederate States of America | Confederate States (other meanings) | |||
| Australia | Australia | |||
| New Zealand | New Zealand | |||
| Confederate States of America | Confederate States | |||
| Confederate States of America | Confederate States | |||
| United States | ||||
| , | United States | |||
| Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago | |||
| South Korea | South Korea | |||
| Philippines | "Three Stars and a Sun" | |||
| Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | |||
| {{flagof | New Zealand | 1834 | name=Te Kara}} | New Zealand (formerly) |
| Māori | New Zealand (national Māori flag) | "Absolute Sovereignty" | ||
| India | India | "The Tricolour" | ||
| Iceland | Iceland | |||
| Thailand | Thailand | "Tricolour" | ||
| Isle of Man | Isle of Man | "Three Legs of Mann" | ||
| Bolivia | Bolivia | "The Tricolor" | ||
| Colombia | Colombia | "The National Tricolor" | ||
| Costa Rica | Costa Rica | |||
| Croatia | Croatia | "The Tricolor" | ||
| Ecuador | Ecuador | |||
| Venezuela | Venezuela | "National Tricolour" | ||
| Spain | Spain (historical) | |||
| France | France | "Tricolour Flag" | ||
| Italy | Italy | |||
| Romania | Romania | "the Tricolour" | ||
| Russia (Trikolor) | Russia | |||
| Serbia / Trobojka | Serbia | |||
| Ireland | Ireland | "Irish tricolour" | ||
| Sicily | Sicily | |||
| Lithuania | Lithuania | "Tricolor" | ||
| Antarctica | Antarctica | |||
| Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | "Tricolour Flag" | ||
| Canada | Canada | "The [one] with a single Leaf" | ||
| Haiti L'Union Fait La Force | Haiti | "Unity makes strength" (motto on the flag) | ||
| or Union Flag, | United Kingdom | |||
| United States (maritime jack) | ||||
| Bolivia (co-official flag) | a flag representing the native peoples of the Andes and the co-official flag of Bolivia | |||
| (Wǔsèqí) | Republic of China (historical) | "Five-Colored Flag" | ||
| China (Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí) | People's Republic of China | "Five-Starred Red Flag" | ||
| Wales | Wales | "The Red Dragon" | ||
| Armenia (Yerakooyn) | Armenia | "Tricolour" | ||
| Ukraine (Zhovto-blakytnyy [prapor]) | Ukraine | "Yellow-blue [flag]" |
Notes
References
References
- "800 years of Dannebrog {{!}} The story of the Danish flag".
- (15 September 1935). "Reichsflaggengesetz (Eines der drei "Nürnberger Gesetze")". documentArchiv.de.
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