List of flags by design

This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag. Uncharged flags are ones that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols. Charged flags are flags that contain crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms and other objects or symbols, as well as rectangles, squares and crosses. Some charged flags contain letters or other pieces of text on them.

Shape and aspect ratio

Flags occur in a variety of shapes and proportions, most commonly rectangular, with some featuring alternative forms, aspect ratios, or fringes at the fly.

Flag of Switzerland
— the aspect ratio is 1:1 — square-shaped
Flag of Vatican City
— the aspect ratio was defined as 1:1 in Article 23 of the 2023 Fundamental Law of Vatican City State — square-shaped — the prior flag of 2001→2023 was, but did not have to be square-shaped.^[1]
Wiphala
— the aspect ratio is 1:1 — square-shaped — with implied 13 diagonals of squares in a rainbow pattern of seven colours in a seven-by-seven square
Flag of Belgium
— the aspect ratio is 13:15 ≈ 1:1.1538
Flag of Monaco
— the aspect ratio is 4:5 ≡ 1:1.25
Flag of Niger
— the aspect ratio is 6:7 ≈ 1:1.667
Flag of France
— the aspect ratio is 2:3, one of the most common and conventional aspect ratios for national flags
Flag of Togo
— the aspect ratio is of Fibonacci's golden ratio that is approximately 1:1.618 ≈ 13:21
Flag of El Salvador
— the aspect ratio is 18:29 ≈ 1:1.611
(parade version of the civil flag)
Flag of El Salvador
— the aspect ratio is 189:335 ≈ 1:1.772
(government/state flag — civil flag is without the arms)
Flag of Qatar
— the largest aspect ratio of any national flag — being over 2½ times as long as the height — of 11:28 ≈ 1:2.545
Flag of the Republic of Venice / The Banner of Saint Mark the Evangelist
— an oblong flag with six fringes also serve to prevent damage being caused to the central section of the flag by wind.^[2]
(La Serenissima / Stato da Màr — 697→1797)
Flag of Venice
— an oblong flag with six fringes in a simplified variation of the Banner of Saint Mark, but still highly decorated orle bordered with insets of the Madonna and Child with Christian saints
(from 1997 — the City of Venice)
Flag of Denmark
— a swallowtail shape particular to Nordic nations
(government/state flag only — civil flag is oblong)
Flag of Iceland
— a swallowtail shape particular to Nordic nations
(government/state flag only — civil flag is oblong)
Flag of Norway
— a swallowtail shape particular to Nordic nations
(government/state flag only — civil flag is oblong)
Flag of Ohio, United States
— a non-rectangular guidon (burgee) form — the only U.S. state flag not rectangular — with a proportion of 8:13
Flag of China
— a triangular pennon form
(1862→1889)
Flag of Nepal
— currently the only non-rectangular national civil flag — being made with 5 sides — and the only one that is taller than wide, with the bordering aspect ratio of ≈ 6:5
Raven banner
— a tasseled circle quadrant shape

Solid

Examples:

Flag of France
(1814–1830)
Flag of Old Bruneian Sultanate
(1368–1888)
Flag of Afghanistan
(used from 1709–1738 and 1880–1901)
Flag of North Yemen
(1918–1923)
Flag of Libya
(1977–2011)
Flag of the Crimean People's Republic
(1917)
Flag of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia
(1919–1920)

Charged

While most charged flags are duotone or multicolor, they are referred to by their solid primary color foremost, with their charged symbol's color(s) and symbology following accordingly.^{[citation needed]}

Examples:

Flag of Japan
— white flag, charged with a centered red circular disc representing the sun, embodying the name Land of the Rising Sun
Flag of Rapa Nui
— white flag, charged with a centered red Rei Miru, an ornamental Easter Island wearable wood carving
Flag of Corsica
— white flag, charged with a Moor's head in black
Flag of South Korea
— white flag, charged with the Taegeuk and four black trigrams
Olympic Flag
— white flag, charged with the Olympic rings in blue, yellow, black, green, and red, representing the five continents Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania
Flag of New Mexico, United States
— yellow flag, charged with a centered red Zia Pueblo sun symbol, colors of the Flag of Spain representing Hispano Nuevo México
Silver fern flag — black flag charged with a silver fern
Flag of Turkey — red flag, charged with a white star and crescent
Flag of the People's Republic of China
— red flag, charged with yellow canton stars in the top left corner, colors reminiscent of the Flag of the Qing dynasty and the Flag of the Republic of China
Flag of Bangladesh
— green flag, charged with a red disc on hoist
Flag of the United Nations — sky blue flag charged with the logo of the UN
Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations
Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations
Flag of New Hampshire, United States — an example of a Seal on a bedsheet design
Flag of the Crimean People's Republic
Flag of the Crimean Regional Government
Flag of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Flag of the Safavid dynasty
Flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Flag of the Republic of Aras
Flag of Central Lithuania
Flag of the Principality of Moldavia
Flag of Navarre, Spain
Flag of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Flag of the Andean Community
Flag of Earth (John McConnell)
Flag of Earth (Oskar Pernefeldt)
Flag of Earth (Tijs Bonekamp)
Flag of the World Service Authority
Flag of the East Turkestan independence movement
Flag of the Workers' Party of North Korea
Flag of the Workers' Party of Korea
Flag of the Korean Children's Union
Flag of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League
Flag of the General Staff Department of the Korean People's Army
Flag of the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army
Flag of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards
Flag of the President of South Korea
Flag of the Yongsan Presidential Office
Flag of the Government of South Korea
Flag of the Government of South Korea
Flag of the National Police Agency (South Korea)
Flag of the Korea Coast Guard
Flag of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea
Flag of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials
Flag of the National Election Commission
Flag of the Board of Audit and Inspection
Flag of the Committee for the Five Northern Korean Provinces
Flag of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces
Flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (South Korea)
Flag of the Chief of Naval Operations (South Korea)
Flag of the Republic of Korea Marine Corps
Flag of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Flag of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (South Korea)
Flag of the Republic of Korea Civil Defense Corps
Flag of the Republic of Korea Reserve Forces
Flag of the People Power Party
Flag of the Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015)
Flag of the Reform Party (South Korea)
Flag of the New Conservative Party (South Korea)
Flag of the Bareunmirae Party
Flag of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party
Flag of the Bareun Party
Flag of the United Liberal Democrats
Flag of the Reunification Democratic Party
Flag of the Democratic Justice Party
Flag of the National Assembly (South Korea)
Flag of the Constitutional Court of Korea
Flag of the North Hamgyeong Province
Flag of the South Hamgyeong Province
Flag of the North Pyeongan Province
Flag of the South Pyeongan Province

Bicolour

Examples:

Flag of Metz, Moselle, Grand Est, France
— vertical bicolour
Flag of Rome, Lazio, Italy
— vertical bicolour
Flag of Malta
— charged vertical bicolour
Flag of Connacht, Ireland
— charged vertical bicolour
Vatican City
— charged vertical bicolour
Flag of Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom
— charged vertical bicolour
Flag of Algeria
— charged vertical bicolour
Flag of Paris, Île-de-France, France
— charged vertical bicolour
Flag of Portugal
— charged uneven vertical bicolour
Flag of the Azores, Portugal
— charged uneven vertical bicolour
Flag of Orania, Thembelihle, Pixley ka Seme, Northern Cape, South Africa
— charged uneven vertical bicolour
Flag of Bahrain
— serrated uneven vertical bicolour
Flag of Qatar
— serrated uneven vertical bicolour
Flag of Poland
— horizontal bicolour
Civil Ensign of Bavaria, Germany
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Warsaw, Masovian, Poland
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of The Hague, Haaglanden, South Holland, Netherlands
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Indonesia
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Monaco
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Austrian Empire (1282→1918)
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Ukraine
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria (1772–1849)
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Courland, Latvia
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic (unofficial)
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Principality of Moldavia (1831–1862)
— horizontal bicolour
Flag of Wales, United Kingdom
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of San Marino
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Singapore
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Angola
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Burkina Faso
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Kansas City, Missouri, United States
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Haiti
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Liechtenstein
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Philippines
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Romani people
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Caribbean Community
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of the European Coal and Steel Community
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of Republic of Korea Army
— charged horizontal bicolour
Hwanghae Province
— charged horizontal bicolour
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
— charged uneven horizontal bicolour
Flag of Tatarstan, Russia
— fimbriated horizontal bicolour
Flag of Antarctica (True South) – (horizontal bicolour)
Flag of Utrecht (city), Utrecht, Netherlands
— diagonal bicolour
Flag of Siberia, Russia
— diagonal bicolour
Flag of Sicily, Italy
— charged diagonal bicolour
Unofficial flag of French Guiana, France
— charged diagonal bicolour
Flag of anarcho-capitalism
— diagonal bicolour
Flag of Bhutan
— charged diagonal bicolour
Flag of Papua New Guinea
— charged diagonal bicolour

Tricolour and other tribands

Examples:

Flag of the Canary Islands, Spain (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Peru
(vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of Guinea (vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of Chad (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mars (Pascal Lee)
(vertical tricolour)
Flag of Belgium (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Italy (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Nigeria (vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of Ireland (vertical tricolour)
Unofficial flag of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (vertical tricolour)
Flag of France (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Romania (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Ivory Coast (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mali (vertical tricolour)
Flag of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (vertical tricolour)
Flag of the Milk Tea Alliance (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Cameroon (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Andorra (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Moldova (vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mongolia (charged vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of Afghanistan (2013–2021) (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Mexico (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Senegal (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of the Pieds-noirs (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of New York City, New York State, United States (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Barbados (charged vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of the Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Guatemala (charged vertical bicolour triband)
Flag of the Interahamwe (charged vertical tricolour)
Flag of Manhattan, New York City, New York (state), United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Los Angeles (charged serrated tricolour)
Flag of Canada (charged uneven vertical triband, Canadian pale)
Flag of the Northwest Territories, Canada (charged uneven vertical triband, Canadian pale)
Flag of Mississippi, United States (charged uneven fimbriated vertical triband)
Flag of Antarctica (Olivier Leroi) (uneven fimbriated vertical tricolor)
Flag of the Belarusian People's Republic (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of South Ossetia
(horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Bulgaria (horizontal tricolour)
Russian anti-war flag (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Russia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Baden
(horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Luxembourg (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Lithuania (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Austria (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Hungary (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Netherlands (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Bolivia (horizontal tricolour)
Spanish Republican Flag (horizontal tricolour)
Pan-African flag (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Armenia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Germany (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Estonia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Yemen (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Sierra Leone (horizontal tricolour)
Pansexual flag (horizontal tricolour)
Prince's Flag (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Donetsk People's Republic (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Luhansk People's Republic (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Novorossiya (Oleg Tsaryov) (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Russian Empire (1858–1896) (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria (1849–1890) (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Republic of Van (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the German Empire (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Courland Governorate (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Sudan Liberation Movement (Minnawi) (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the African National Congress (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Iskolat (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Somaliland (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of El Salvador (charged bicolour triband)
Flag of Cambodia (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Ethiopia (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Malawi (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Libya (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Lesotho (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Laos (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Egypt (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Croatia (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Ghana (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (charged horizontal biicolour triband)
Flag of Serbia (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Bangsamoro (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Cascadia (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Yugoslavia (charged horizontal tricolor)
Flag of Argentina (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Colorado, United States (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of India (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Nicaragua (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Honduras (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Union of African States (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Iraq (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians (charged horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Lebanon (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Lusignan dynasty (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Union of Belarusian Youth (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Kingdom of Lithuania (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Moldavian Democratic Republic (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Sudan Liberation Movement (Tambour) (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Ingush Liberation Army (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Bronx, New York City, New York (state), United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Albany, Capital District (New York), New York (state), United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Schenectady County New York (state), United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Ulster County New York (state), United States (horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Ecuador (uneven horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Spain (charged horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Latvia (uneven horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Antarctica (Dave Hamilton) (uneven horizontal tricolour)
Guna flag (uneven horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Kherson Oblast (uneven horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Crimea (uneven horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Colombia (uneven horizontal tricolour)
Flag of the Republic of New Afrika (uneven horizontal tricolour)
Flag of The Gambia (fimbriated horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Botswana (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Organisation of African Unity (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of North Korea (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Eswatini (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Korean People's Army Strategic Force (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Korean People's Army Ground Force (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of the DPRK Missile Administration (fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Kenya (charged fimbriated horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Iran (charged fimbriated horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Suriname (charged fimbriated horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Uzbekistan (charged fimbriated horizontal tricolour)
Flag of Transnistria (horizontal bicolour triband)
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago (fimbriated diagonal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Republic of the Congo (diagonal tricolour)
Flag of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (charged diagonal tricolour)
Flag of Sealand (diagonal tricolour)
Flag of Namibia (charged fimbriated diagonal tricolour)
Flag of Tanzania (fimbriated diagonal tricolour)
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis (charged fimbriated diagonal tricolour)
Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (charged fimbriated diagonal bicolour triband)
Flag of the Galician independence movement (diagonal bicolour triband)

Stripes

Four stripes

Examples:

Flag of the American Indian Movement (vertical stripes)
Flag of Mauritius (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Comoros (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Central African Republic (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Druze people (horizontal stripes)
Asexual flag (horizontal stripes)
Flag of La Rioja (horizontal stripes)

Five or more stripes

Examples:

Free Speech Flag (five vertical stripes)
Flag of Northumbria (bicolor vertical stripes)
Unofficial civil flag of the United States used by sovereign citizens (bicolor vertical stripes)
Flag of Cuba (bicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of China (1912–1928) (five horizontal multicolor stripes)
Flag of Costa Rica (uneven horizontal stripes)
Flag of Thailand (uneven horizontal stripes)
Flag of Uganda (six tricolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of Abkhazia (seven bicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of Zimbabwe (seven multicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of Hawaii, United States (eight tricolor horizontal stripes)
Rainbow pride flag (eight multicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of Greece (nine horizontal stripes)
Flag of Catalonia, Spain (nine horizontal stripes)
Flag of the United States of America (thirteen even bicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of Brazil (1889) (thirteen even bicolor horizontal stripes)
Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory (wavy stripes)
Flag of Friesland (diagonal stripes)
Flag of Earth (James William van Kirk) (seven even horizontal stripes)
Brotherhood Flag (five even horizontal stripes)

Lines on a field

Flag of Volgograd Oblast, Russia (red field charged with two vertical blue stripes)
Flag of Nauru (blue field charged with one yellow stripe)
Flag of Curacao, Netherlands (blue field charged with one yellow stripe)
Flag of Aruba, Netherlands (blue field charged with two yellow stripes)
Flag of South Vietnam (yellow field charged with three horizontal red stripes)
Flag of Cape Verde (horizontal stripes)
Flag of Chechnya (1991–2000) (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (Red field charged with blue and white wavy stripes)
Flag of the Adat People's Movement (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Ministry of State Security (North Korea) (horizontal stripes)
Flag of the Korean People's Navy (horizontal stripes)