Other Flags

What counts as a non-national flag

Everything on this page sits outside the national collection. That includes political party banners, international and regional organisations, movements and stateless nations, religious flags, identity flags, the flags of states that no longer exist, and the maritime signal flags that belong to no country at all.

Each has the same treatment as a national flag: its own page, a specification table, its colours with exact codes, what its symbols stand for where that is documented, and a free download in the same four formats.

How these pages are written

Party and movement flags are described, not advocated. The pages set out who uses the flag, where, what the design consists of and what the organisation itself says the symbols mean — and stop there. No page here takes a position on the politics of the body whose flag it shows, and disputed claims are presented as disputed rather than settled.

Historical flags are included as historical objects. What a flag meant when it was a state flag and what it signifies to a viewer today are not the same thing, and the pages do not pretend otherwise. Flags of the Nazi Party and of the Confederate States are deliberately not included.

A note on the artwork

The non-national flags were drawn for this site. Designs made of bands, crosses, discs and stars are accurate. Flags carrying a detailed coat of arms, seal or party emblem have the correct layout and colours but a simplified emblem, and those pages say so where it applies.

For the flags of countries, territories and US states, see the main flag index.