| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| The Bosniak Banate |
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| 1154-1377 | Flag of the Bosniak Banate. | Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a white cross pattée in the center. |
| The Bosniak Kingdom |
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| 1377-1463 | Flag of the Bosniak Kingdom possibly adopted during the reign of King Tvrtko I Kotromanić. | Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a white line in the center, included with 6 Bosniak lilies from the Kotromanić dynasty. |
| 1377-1463 | Royal Flag of Tvrtko I of Bosnia. | a white field with 5 sestiere on the fly and the arms of Bosnia in the center. |
| 1377-1463 | Military Flag of Bosnia. | Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a white cross pattée in the center. |
| The Kosača dynasty |
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| 1448-1482 | Flag of Herzegovina | A red field with 2 white crosses pattée off-centred toward the hoist and 3 sestiere on the fly. |
| Rama |
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| 1618 | Banner used for "Rama" at Ferdinand II's coronation as King of Hungary. | Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a shield in the center. |
| Ottoman Bosnia |
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| 1517–1793 | | Red field with a Green Disc in the center and 3 golden crescent moons inside the disc. |
| 1793–1844 | Flag of The Ottoman Empire | A Red Field with a white crescent moon and a 8-pointed star. |
| 1844–1878 | Flag of The Ottoman Empire | A Red Field with a white crescent moon and a 5-pointed star. |
| 1800–1878 | Imperial Flag of The Ottoman Empire | |
| 1760s | Flag of Western Herzegovina used by Bosniak landlords in border parts in southern and western Herzegovina. The flag was most commonly used in wars. It also accompanied Bosnian troops during the second siege of Hotin. | Swallow-tailed; a green field with a white crescent and star pointing toward the hoist. |
| 1878 | Flag of Bosnia. In 1878 Bosnia existed briefly as an independent nation. | Very similar to the flag used by Husein Gradaščević's revolt of 1830: a green field with a yellow crescent and star facing away from the hoist, but with a more curved crescent, like a typical Islamic crescent moon symbol. |
| Austro-Hungarian Bosnia |
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| 1878–1918 | | A horizontal bicolour of black and yellow. |
| 1878–1915 | | A golden field bordered with golden, black, white and red triangles displaying The Austrian Royal Arms. |
| 1878–1918 | Royal Flag of Austria-Hungary | A golden field bordered with golden, black, white, red and green triangles displaying both the Imperial crown of Austria and the Royal crown of Hungary. |
| 1878–1908 | | A red and yellow horizontal bicolour with a shield. The Province of Herzegovina used a similar flag but with the colors reversed (a yellow and red bicolour). |
| 1908 | Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina after Austro-Hungarian annexation. | A red and yellow horizontal bicolour. |
| 1878-1918 | Flag of Herzegovina, during the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Bosnia in Yugoslavia |
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| 1918-1941 | | A Horizontal Tricolor of Blue, White and Red. |
| 1922-1937 | Royal Flag of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| 1937-1941 | Royal Flag of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| 1941-1945 | State flag of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) | A tricolour of red, white, and blue with the Ustaše symbol in top-left corner (letter "U" surrounded by Croatian interlace) and the Croatian coat of arms (but with the first field white, as opposed to red) in the center. |
| 1946-1992 | | A Horizontal Tricolor of Blue, White and Red with a red star in the center. |
| 1956-1963 | Presidential Flag of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
| 1963-1992 | Presidential Flag of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
| 1940-1946 | | |
| 1946–1992 | | A red field (symbolizing the national liberation movements) with the Yugoslav flag in the canton. |
| Independent Bosnia. |
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| 1993–1995 | Flag of Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia and Republic of Western Bosnia || |-| || 1992–1998 || Flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina || A white field with a blue shield bearing six Bosnian Golden Lilies in the centre. It also was and it still is the main Bosniak national flag.|}Proposed flags
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| Proposed, never used | First proposal of a flag for the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 November 1946.[4] | Federal flag of Yugoslavia with an additional five-pointed golden star imposed behind the existing red star, with their rays interchangeably positioned. | | Proposed, used in real life | Second proposal of a flag for the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1947. | Variant of the flag adopted on 31 December 1946 with a much larger Yugoslav canton flag and a margin. | |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| Proposed, never used | Bosnian Tricolor Proposal | | | Proposed, never used | Bosnian Democratic Union Proposal | | | Proposed, never used | Defenders of Sarajevo Proposal | | |
First set of proposals
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| Proposed, never used | First alternative in the first set of proposals. | Similar to the flag of the Czech Republic. A green and red horizontal bicolour with a blue triangle in the hoist. | | Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the first set of proposals. | Similar to the flag of the United Nations. A light blue field with a branch of wheat. | | Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the first set of proposals. | A blue field with an outline of the map of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |
Second set of proposals
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| Proposed, never used | First alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 10 gold 5-pointed stars. | | Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 12 gold 5-pointed stars. | | Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches. | | Proposed, never used | Fourth alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches. | |
Third set of proposals
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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| Proposed, used briefly in 1998 | First alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | Identical to the national flag that was adopted, but with a field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses. | | Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with three gold and two white stripes, interleaved so as to form a rectangle in the centre. | | Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with five gold and five white stripes, interleaved so as to form a triangle in the centre. | |
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