This is a list of flag names and nicknames, including both official designations and widely used informal names. Entries are presented in a sortable table by flag name; where given, the “Meaning and notes” column provides translations, explanations, and other contextual information.
List Flag name / nickname Country / territory Meaning and notes Brazil "The Gold and Green" Greenland "The red" Qatar "Support flag" Kuwait "My country's flag" Iraqi Kurdistan "Colourful flag" Turkey "Red Flag" Turkey "Holy Red Standard" Turkey "Crescent Star" or La Celeste y Blanca Argentina "The white and light blue one" United Arab Republic and Ba'athist Syria "The Two Stars" Brazil "Gold and green flag" Portugal "Flag of the quinas", the five blue shields of the Portuguese arms Portugal "Green-Red Flag" Wales (unofficial flag) "Flag of Saint David" Cornwall "St. Piran's flag" California Indonesia "Red-White Flag" United States Flag of the Hindus and former flag of the Maratha Empire "The Saffron Banner" Poland "White-Red" Belarus (formerly) "White-Red-White" Austria Jamaica Confederate States Libya "Flag of the Star and the Crescent" Republic of West Florida official flag of the now-defunct Republic of West Florida, also used in some places as an unofficial banner of the Confederate States. Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly) "Bosnian lily" Scotland "Saltire" Barbados Germany "Federal Flag", Germany, official designation /Balgarski Trikolyor Bulgaria "Bulgarian Three Colors" European Union and the Council of Europe Australia United States (historical) United Colonies United Colonies Vietnam "Red Flag and Yellow Star" Vietnam "Flag of Fatherland" Scotland "St. Andrew's Cross" Occitania "Occitan cross" Jamaica Denmark "Danish cloth" Kuwait "My Nation/Land" Greenland "Our flag" Chile "The Lone Star" Cuba "The Lone Star" Catalonia (pro-independence) "Blue-Starred Flag" Galician nationalism "Starred Flag" Australia (historical) Jain flag Quebec, Canada "Fleur-de-lis-y" (Γαλανόλευκη) Greece "Blue-and-White" Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Guyana Brittany "White and black" United States United States (historical) Japan (national flag and naval flag) "Sun disc" (Huánglóngqí) China (historical) "Yellow Dragon Flag" Iceland (historical) "The White-blue", a flag proposal which was used but never became official Russian Empire (historical flag) "Imperial flag" Confederate States Malaysia "Stripes of Glory" Jefferson (proposed U.S. state) Hawaii (alternative flag) "True People" (silver fern) New Zealand (unofficial, widely used) Oman "Dagger and two swords" Georgia "Five-cross flag" Soviet Union (historical flag) "Red Banner" East Turkestan "Blue Banner" Kenya "Black, white, red, white, green and a shield with two arrows" Bangladesh "Red & green" (Lion Rampant) Scotland (royal banner) "Lion Rampant" Texas Sri Lanka or l'Unifolié Canada Faroe Islands "The Banner" Indonesia "Red and White" Puerto Rico "Monostarred" Oklahoma x "respected ensign" United States Uruguay "National Pavilionflag" Nepal "Mountain" Iran "The Three-Coloured Flag" Pakistan "Flag of the Star and the Crescent" Netherlands (historical) "Prince's flag" Hungary "Red-White-Green" Philippines "National Flag" (Qīng Tiān, Bái Rì, Mǎn Dì Hóng ["Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Field"]) Taiwan South Africa all unofficial x 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 North Korea "Indigo and Red Flag of the Republic" United Kingdom (civil ensign) the civil ensign of the United Kingdom Valencian Community "Royal flag" Germany (historical) "Reich and National Flag" (Rosiiski Trikolor) Russia "Russian Three Colours" Spain "Red-weld" Austria "Red-white-red" Luxembourg (civil ensign) "Red Lion" Luxembourg "Red-White-Blue" (Ručnik) Belarus (Red, white and blue) Norway Pakistan "Green Flag with Crescent" Scotland England Devon Laos "Tricolor" Latvia "Red-white-red flag" Indonesia "The Red White Heritage" Republic of North Macedonia (formerly Republic of Macedonia) (historical flag) "Sun of Kutleš' Germany "Black-red-gold" German Empire "Black-white-red" Catalonia Iran (historical flag) 'The lion and the sun" Albania "The two-headed eagle" Estonia "Blue-black-white" Finland "Blue Cross Flag" Sri Lanka "Lion Flag" Tibet Confederate States (other meanings) Australia New Zealand Confederate States Confederate States United States , United States Trinidad and Tobago South Korea Afghanistan White flag used by the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, bearing the shahada. Philippines "Three Stars and a Sun" Saudi Arabia New Zealand (formerly) Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand New Zealand (national Māori flag) "Absolute Sovereignty" India "The Tricolour" Iceland Thailand "Tricolour" Isle of Man "Three Legs of Mann" Bolivia "The Tricolor" Colombia "The National Tricolor" Costa Rica Croatia "The Tricolor" Ecuador Venezuela "National Tricolour" Spain (historical) France "Tricolour Flag" Italy Romania "the Tricolour" (Trikolor) Russia / Trobojka Serbia Ireland "Irish tricolour" Sicily Lithuania "Tricolor" Antarctica Azerbaijan "Tricolour Flag" Canada "The [one] with a single Leaf" L'Union Fait La Force Haiti "Unity makes strength" (motto on the flag) or Union Flag, United Kingdom United States (maritime jack) Bolivia (co-official flag) a flag representing the native peoples of the Andes and the co-official flag of Bolivia (Wǔsèqí) Republic of China (historical) "Five-Colored Flag" (Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí) People's Republic of China "Five-Starred Red Flag" Wales "The Red Dragon" (Yerakooyn) Armenia "Tricolour" (Zhovto-blakytnyy [prapor]) Ukraine "Yellow-blue [flag]"
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