List of Kazakh flags explained

This is a list of flags which are used in Kazakhstan and flags which were used in history.

Presidential flag

FlagDateUseDescription
1991–2013 Standard of the president of Kazakhstan (1991-2013)
2013–present

Military flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Similar to the national flag without the ornamental pattern, and the addition of a red star in the canton.
Flag of the Kazakhstan Air Defense Forces
Flag of the Kazakhstan Airborne Troops
Flag of the Kazakh Border Service

Naval flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Government Ensign of Kazakhstan
Border Service Ensign of Kazakhstan

Rank flag

Non-Military Security Forces Flag

FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Kazakhstan Customs Bureau
Flag of the Kazakhstan Tax Service

Administrative divisions

Cities with special status

Regions

Districts

Cities/Towns

Historical flags

FlagDateUseDescription
14th-16th century
1465–1822 2 pointed banners with a golden border with the image of tamga (clan seal) in the center. each banner is in white, blue and red color respectively.
1465–1822 Alleged flag of the Kazakh Khanate
1916 Flag of Amankeldı İmanov's rebels
1917–1920 This flag consisted of green, red and yellow horizontal stripes. Green represents the country's loyalty to Islam, red represents the bloodshed defending the country and yellow represents the wide Kazakh steppe as well as freedom
1917-1920 2nd version of the flag of the Alash Autonomy
1920-1936Flag of the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
1937–1940
1940–1953 Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
1953–1992 Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
1991–1992 Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1953–1992 Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh SSR (reversed)
1992–present Current national flag

Proposed flags

FlagDateUseDescription
1991 Proposal 1
Proposal 2
Proposal 3
Proposal 4
Proposal 5
Proposal 6
Proposal 7
Proposal 8

Political flags

FlagDatePartyDescription
Current
Link to file<-- Do NOT display a non-free flag image here. See talk page for more information --> 2006–present
1991–present
1990–present
Former
1990s–2015 Communist Party of KazakhstanThey started using a version of the hammer and sickle very similar to the emblem of the Chinese Communist Party.
1990s Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Link to file<-- Do NOT display a non-free flag image here. See talk page for more information --> 2003-2006
Link to file<-- Do NOT display a non-free flag image here. See talk page for more information --> 2004-2013
1917-1920

See also