List of flag names explained

This is an incomplete list of the names and nicknames of flags, organized in alphabetical order by flag name. Very few flags have any truly official names, but some unofficial names are so widely used that they are accepted as a flag's universal name.

A

• ("The Gold and Green"), Brazil
• ("The red"), Greenland
• ("Support flag"), Qatar
• ("My country's flag"), Kuwait
• ("Colourful flag"), Iraqi Kurdistan
• ("Red Flag"), Turkey
• ("Holy Red Standard"), Turkey
• ("Crescent Star"), Turkey
• or La Celeste y Blanca ("The white and light blue one"), Argentina
• ("The Two Stars"), Syria

B

• ("Gold and green flag"), Brazil
• ("Flag of the quinas", the five blue shields of the Portuguese arms), Portugal
• ("Green-Red Flag"), Portugal
• ("Flag of Saint David"), Wales (unofficial flag)
• ("St. Piran's flag"), Cornwall
• , California
• ("Red-White Flag"), Indonesia
• , United States
• ("The Saffron Banner"), Flag of the Hindus and former flag of the Maratha Empire
• ("White-Red"), Poland
• ("White-Red-White"), former flag of Belarus
• , Austria
• , Jamaica
• , Confederate States
• ("Flag of the Star and the Crescent"), Libya
• Bonnie Blue flag, official flag of the now-defunct Republic of West Florida, also used in some places as an unofficial banner of the Confederate States.
• ("Bosnian lily"), former flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• ("Saltire"), Scotland
• , Barbados
• ("Federal Flag"), Germany, official designation
• /Balgarski Trikolyor ("Bulgarian Three Colors"), Bulgaria

C

• , Australia
• ("St. Andrew's Cross"), Scotland
• ("Red Flag and Yellow Star"), Vietnam
• ("Flag of Fatherland"), Vietnam
• ("Occitan cross"), Occitania
• , European Union and the Council of Europe
• , Jamaica

D

• ("Danish cloth"), Denmark^[1]
• ("My Nation/Land"), Kuwait

E

• ("Our flag"), Greenland
• ("The Lone Star"), Chile
• ("The Lone Star"), Cuba
• ("Blue-Starred Flag"), Catalan separatism
• ("Starred Flag"), Galician nationalism
• , Australia

F

• , Jain flag
• ("Fleur-de-lis-y"), Quebec, Canada

G

• ("Light blue and white"), Greece
• , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• , Guyana
• ("White and black"), Brittany
• , United States
• , United States

H

• ("Sun disc"), Japan (national flag and naval flag)
• (Huánglóngqí) ("Yellow Dragon Flag"), China (historical)
• ("The White-blue"), a flag proposal which was used but never became official, Iceland

I

• ("Imperial flag"), Russian Empire (historical flag)

J

• , Confederate States
• ("Stripes of Glory"), Malaysia
• , Jefferson (proposed U.S. state)

K

• Kanaka Maoli ("True People"), Hawaii (alternative flag)
• Kaponga (silver fern), New Zealand (unofficial, widely used)
• ("Dagger and two swords"), Oman
• ("Five-cross flag"), Georgia
• ("Red Banner"), Soviet Union (historical flag)
• ("Blue Banner"), East Turkestan
• ("Black, white, red, white, green and a shield with two arrows"), Kenya

L

• ("Red & green"), Bangladesh
• Leòmhann na h-Alba ("Lion Rampant"), Scotland
• , Texas
• , Sri Lanka

M

• or l'Unifolié, Canada
• ("The Banner"), Faroe Islands
• ("Red and White"), Indonesia
• ("Monostarred"), Puerto Rico

N

• Native America's flag, Oklahoma
• Nishan Sahib ("respected ensign")

O

• , United States

P

• ("National Pavilion(flag)"), Uruguay
• ("Mountain"), Nepal
• ("The Three-Coloured Flag"), Iran
• ("Flag of the Star and the Crescent"), Pakistan
• Prinsenvlag ("Prince's flag"), Netherlands (historical)
• ("Red-White-Green"), Hungary
• ("National Flag"), Philippines

Q

• (Qīng Tiān, Bái Rì, Mǎn Dì Hóng ["Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Field"]), Taiwan

R

• (all unofficial), South Africa
• Rainbow flag, 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
• ("Indigo and Red Flag of the Republic"), North Korea
• , the civil ensign of the United Kingdom
• ("Royal flag"), Valencia
• ("Reich and National Flag"^[2]), Germany (historical)
• (Rosiiski Trikolor) ("Russian Three Colours"), Russia
• ("Red-weld"), Spain
• ("Red-white-red"), Austria
• ("Red Lion"), civil ensign of Luxembourg
• ("Red, white blue"), Luxembourg
• (Ručnik), Belarus
• (Red, white and blue), Norway

S

• ("Green Flag with Crescent"), Pakistan
• , Scotland
• Saint George's Cross, England
• , Devon
• ("Tricolor"), Laos
• ("Red-white-red flag"), Latvia
• ("The Red White Heritage"), Indonesia
• ("Sun of Kutleš'), Republic of North Macedonia (formerly Republic of Macedonia) (historical flag)
• ("Black-red-gold"), Germany
• Schwarz-Weiß-Rot ("Black-white-red"), German Empire
• , Alghero and Catalonia
• ('The lion and the sun"), Iran (historical flag)
• ("The two-headed eagle"), Albania
• ("Blue-black-white"), Estonia
• ("Blue Cross Flag"), Finland
• ("Lion Flag"), Sri Lanka
• , Tibet
• , Confederate States (other meanings)
• , Australia
• , New Zealand
• , Confederate States
• , Confederate States
• , United States
• , United States
• , Trinidad and Tobago

T

• , South Korea
• ("Three Stars and a Sun"), Philippines
• Al Tawheed/Shahada, Saudi Arabia
• , flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand
• ("Absolute Sovereignty"), national Māori flag (New Zealand)
• ("The Tricolour"), India
• , state flag of Iceland
• ("Tricolour"), Thailand
• ("Three Legs of Mann"), Isle of Man
• Tricolor or similar, a term for several national flags which are tribands or tricolours:
  • ("The Tricolor"), Bolivia
  • ("The National Tricolor"), Colombia
  • , Costa Rica
  • ("The Tricolor"), Croatia
  • , Ecuador
  • ("National Tricolour"), Venezuela
  • , Second Spanish Republic (historical)
  • ("Tricolour Flag"), France
  • , Italy
  • , Romania
  • (Trikolor), Russia
  • / Trobojka, Serbia
• ("Irish tricolour"), Ireland
• , Sicily
• ("Tricolor"), Lithuania
• , Antarctica

U

• ("Tricolour Flag"), Azerbaijan
• ("The [one] with a single Leaf"), Canada
• L'Union Fait La Force ("Unity makes strength"), motto on the flag of Haiti
• or Union Flag, United Kingdom
• , United States

W

• Wiphala, a flag representing the native peoples of the Andes and the co-official flag of Bolivia
• (Wǔsèqí) ("Five-Colored Flag"), Republic of China (historical)
• (Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí) ("Five-Starred Red Flag"), People's Republic of China

Y

• ("The Red Dragon"), Wales
• (Yerakooyn) ("Tricolour"), Armenia

Z

• (Zhovto-blakytnyy [prapor]) ("Yellow-blue [flag]"), Ukraine

Notes and References

1. Web site: 800 years of Dannebrog The story of the Danish flag. Denmark.dk. en. 2020-03-28.
2. Web site: Reichsflaggengesetz (Eines der drei "Nürnberger Gesetze") . documentArchiv.de . de . Reich Flag Law (One of the three "Nuremberg Laws") . 15 September 1935 . 7 November 2024.