This is a list of flags used in or otherwise associated with Argentina.
Flag | Date | Use | Description | |
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2010–present | A triband, composed of three equal horizontal bands colored light blue, white and light blue with a yellow Sun of May in the center.[1] | |||
1812 –[2] | National flag (1812–1818). Civil flag and ensign (1812–). Ornamental flag (1818–). | The flag of Argentina without the Sun of May.[3] | ||
1818–present | Flag of Argentina (vertical). | A vertical triband, composed of three equal vertical bands coloured light blue, white and light blue with a yellow Sun of May in the center.[4] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description | |
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Army flag. | The army flag, made by Manuel Belgrano, is believed to have looked like this. | |||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Teniente General | |||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine General de División | |||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine General de Brigada | |||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Commandante Superior | |||
1816–1817 |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1852–1861 | |||
1818–1820 | Naval ensign of Argentina, only briefly in use. | Similar to the national flag, but with a wider top stripe. | |
Jack of the Argentine Navy.[5] | A white square with the Sun of May on a light blue field. | ||
1818–? | A proposed naval jack of Argentina, apparently never adopted. | The national flag with eight stars encircling the Sun of May. | |
Rank flag of the Minister of the Navy | |||
Rank flag of the Supreme Commander of the Navy | |||
War Pennant | |||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Admiral | ||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Vice Admiral | ||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Rear Admiral | ||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Captain Adjutant-General | ||
1894–1904 | Flag of Argentine Captain in Command | ||
1924– | |||
Pilot flag | |||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2013–present | Flag used by veterans of the Malvinas War of 1982. | Vertically fringed cloth loaded in its center by a radiant sun, similar to that of the National Flag behind this two lines of equal size of upper red and lower black, symbolizing the blood spilled in the operation theater and the black line the footprint of the ground forces (Argentine Army). On the upper end three broken lines is a symbol of the winds representing the Argentine Air Force. Lower edge wavy movement of lines is a symbol of the Argentine Navy. Thus leaving the veterans' flag with the three weapons that defended our area of honor and remembering the fallen in the line of duty. The contrasting colors indicate that absolutely not everything is won in victory and nothing is definitely lost in defeat: this vertical cut flag recalls one of the original ones given by General Manuel Belgrano to this land on February 27, 1812, in the Barrancas del Rio Parana, the first flag of Argentina. | |
?–2013 | Old veterans flag. | Argentine triband with a black profile of the Malvinas islands in the center instead of the Sun of May. | |
1826 | Admiral William Brown's private flag given to him by the womens after the Battle of Los Pozos. | ||
Flag | Date | Use | Description | |
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Flag of the Argentina Vexillology Association | ||||
Flag of the Foundation Interdisciplinary Center for Cultural Studies |
Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | ||
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1995[6] | The center of the flag of Buenos Aires has a coat of arms created by Spaniard Juan de Garay on October 20, 1580.[7] | ||||
1997[8] | Flag of Buenos Aires Province. | ||||
2011[9] | |||||
2007[10] | A previous design from 1995 by a graphical artist was never adopted as it was deemed a painting and not a symbol.[11] | ||||
2004[12] | |||||
2014 | A vertical tricolor of red, white and blue with the Society of Jesus sun in the center of the white stripe. | ||||
1986[13] | The flag traces its heritage to a simpler design created on December 24, 1821, by a Constituent Congress.[14] | ||||
1987[15] | It was hoisted for the first time on March 1, 1815.[16] Similar to the Artigas flag. | ||||
1991[17] | |||||
1994[18] | It features the same design as the Spanish; Castilian: Bandera Nacional de Nuestra Libertad Civil (Spanish for "National Flag of Our Civil Freedom"), a flag used by Argentine military leader Manuel Belgrano.[19] | ||||
1993[20] | A horizontal triband of blue (top and bottom) and white defaced with the Coat of arms of La Pampa Province at its center. | ||||
1986[21] | |||||
1992[22] | Known as the flag of the Andes, it was used by Argentine patriot José de San Martín during his military campaigns in Chile and Peru.[23] | ||||
1992[24] | A triband, officially adopted on February 12, 1992. The red is a symbol "for the blood spilled to sustain our freedom and independence", the blue, "of our decision for the Republic", and the white, "of our distinction and greatness" according to José Gervasio Artigas. | ||||
1989[25] | |||||
2009[26] | Probably based on the flag of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia. | ||||
1997[27] | Flag of Salta. | ||||
2018[28] [29] | Known as the "Civic Flag", it was first adopted by the IV Division of the Army of the Andes, formed by San Juan natives during the Argentine war for Independence. It is also known as the "Cabot Flag" as the IV Division was led by Lieutenant General Juan Manuel Cabot. It is the only flag of an Argentine province whose reverse differs from the obverse. | ||||
1988[30] | The flag displays the provincial coat of arms centered on a white field. | ||||
2000[31] | |||||
1986[32] | Used unofficially since August 3, 1822,[33] it is a vertical tricolor of red, white and blue with the provincial coat of arms in the center. | ||||
1985[34] | |||||
1999[35] | A diagonal bicolor of sky blue and orange with an albatross in the center and the Southern Cross in the fly. | ||||
2010[36] | A horizontal triband of white (top and bottom) and blue. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1990–2007 | Flag of Chaco Province | ||
1815–1825 | Flags of Córdoba Province | ||
2010–2014 | Flag of Córdoba Province | ||
1815 | Flag of Entre Rios | ||
1822–1824 | Flag of Entre Rios | ||
1997–2018 | Flag of San Juan[37] | ||
1815–1821 | Flag of Santa Fe | ||
1819–1821 | Flag of Santa Fe | ||
1821 | Flag of Santa Fe | ||
1995–2010 | Flag of Tucumán | ||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1988–2011 | |||
2011– | |||
Flag of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia | |||
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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Current | |||
2008–present | |||
1997–present | |||
1946–present | |||
1896–present | |||
1893–present | |||
Former | |||
1990-2009 | |||
1965–1980 | |||
1957–1966 | |||
1932-1936 | |||
1937–1955 | |||
1931–1958 | |||
1919–1939 | Argentine Patriotic League, National Fascist Union and Nationalist Liberation Alliance (1930s) | ||
1890–1891 | |||
1816–1868 | Flag of Artigas | ||
1816–1862 | |||
1977–present | |||
2002-2006 | Santuchista Liberation Armyes | ||
1973-1974 | |||
1973-1974 | Popular Liberation Commandses | ||
1973-1975 | Workers Power Communist Organizationes | ||
1970–1981 | |||
1970–1976 | National colours of Argentina (Light blue and white) defaced by the Red star. | ||
1968-1972 | Guerrilla of the Liberation Armyes | ||
1963–1964 | People's Guerrilla Armyes | ||
1955–1973 | Uturuncoses | ||
1912–present | |||
Flag | Date | Ethnic group | Description |
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Flag of the Guarani in Argentina. | |||
1991– | Flag of the Mapuches in Argentina. Once represented also Tehuelche people. | ||
The blue of the sea, the brown of the mountains, the black arrow pointing north and the Southern Cross. | |||
19th century – | Top: Reconstruction of the flag used in the 19th century, at least in 1865. Has gained popularity in recent years. [38] Bottom: Flag of Puerto Madryn. Argentina flag with Welsh Dragon | ||
Flag | Date | Use | |
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1785–1814 | Flag of Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata | ||
1812 | Flag of Manuel Belgrano | ||
1812–1818 | The Flag of Macha (Officially adopted in 1816) | ||
1818–1819 | Flag of the United Provinces | ||
1819–1820 | The flag briefly had a darker color | ||
1819–1820 | Another variant of the Darker version. | ||
1820–1821 | Flag of Republic of Entre Ríos (Short-Lived State) | ||
1820–1821 | Flag of Republic of Tucumán (Short-Lived State) | ||
1820-1831 | The old color was restored | ||
1831-1835 | Flag chosen by Juan Manuel de Rosas after his ascension to power and in the newly created Argentine Confederation | ||
1835–1850 | Flag of the Argentine Confederation | ||
1850–1861 | Flag of the Argentine Confederation | ||
1852–1861 | Flag of the State of Buenos Aires | ||
1860–1862 | Flag of the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia (Former Unrecognized State) | ||
1913–1941 | State Flag of Argentina[39] [40] | ||
1861–2010 | Flag of Argentina. Utilized a more obtuse aspect ratio, otherwise nearly identical to the current flag that was introduced in 2010.[41] |