List of flag names
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This is an incomplete list of flag nicknames.
Aappalaartoq (the red), Greenland
Alam Baladii (My country's flag), Kuwait
Alay Rengîn (colourful flag), Kurdistan
Albayrak (Red Flag), Turkey
- Alsancak (Holy Red Standard), Turkey
- Ay Yıldız (Crescent Star), Turkey
La Tricolor (The Tricolor), Bolivia
Bandeira Auriverde (gold and green flag), Brazil
Bandeira das Quinas (flag of the quinas, the five blue shields of the Portuguese arms), Portugal
Baner Dewi Sant, Wales (unofficial)
Baner Peran (St. Piran's flag), Cornwall
Tricolor Nacional (National Tricolour) Venezuela
Bhagwa Dhwaj (Saffron Banner), Hindu religious flag, former flag of the Maratha Empire, India
Biało-Czerwona, (white-red), Poland
Bieł-Čyrvona-Bieł (white-red-white), historical flag of Belarus
Estelada blava, (Blue-Starred Flag), Catalan separatism
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 of America.
Bosanski Ljiljan (Bosnian lily), Bosnia and Herzegovina (historical)
Bratach-Croise (Saltire), Scotland
- Crois Naomh Anndra (St. Andrew's Cross), Scotland
Butcher's Apron, Flag of the United Kingdom (pejorative used by some Irish Nationalists)
Cờ đỏ sao vàng, (Red Flag and Yellow Star), Vietnam
Crotz occitana, (Occitan cross), Occitania
Dannebrog (Danish cloth), Denmark
Dannebrogelva (Red, white and blue), Norway
Swea (The yellow and the blue), Sweden- Derti (My Nation/Land), Kuwait
De Roude Léiw (Red Lion Ensign), Luxembourg- Erfalasorput (our flag), Greenland
Eureka Flag, Australia
Five Coloured Flag, Jain flag
Fleurdelisé, Québec
Galanolefki, (light blue and white), Greece
Golden Arrowhead, Guyana
Gwenn-ha-du (white and black), Brittany
Hinomaru (sun disc), Japan
Hvítbláinn, a former unofficial flag, Iceland
Ikurriña (flag), the Basque Country (an autonomous community of Spain), the Basque Country region and more generally the Basque people, culture and language
Innabi, (The Maroon), Qatar
Jalur Gemilang (glorious stripes), Malaysia
Jefferson Seal flag, Jefferson (proposed U.S. state)
Jolly Roger, pirate flag
Kanaka Maoli (true people), Hawaii (alternative)
Kaponga, (silver fern), New Zealand (unofficial, widely used)
Khanjar Oo Sayfain, (Khanjar and two swords), Oman
Kök Bayraq (Blue Banner), East Turkestan
La Estrella Solitaria (the lonely star), Chile,
Tatlong bituin at isang araw (3 Stars and a Sun), Philippines
La Estrella Solitaria (the lonely star), Cuba
Lal-Sobuj (red & green), Bangladesh
Leòmhann na h-Alba (Lion Rampant), Scotland
Maple Leaf/l'Unifolié, Canada
Merkið (The Banner), Faroe Islands
Nishan Sahib (holy flag/exalted banner), Sikh flag
Old Glory, United States
Prinsenvlag, (Prince's flag) Netherlands (historical)
Qīng Tiān, Bái Rì, Mǎn Dì Hóng (Blue Sky with a White Sun in the Red Field), Republic of China (Taiwan)
Rainbow flag
Rojigualda (red-weld), Spain
Rot-Weiss-Rot (red-white-red), Austria
- Šahovnica
Saint George's Cross, England
Sarkanbaltsarkan (red-white-red), Latvia
Sang Saka Merah Putih (the red white), Indonesia
Ѕвездата од Кутлеш (Sun of Kutleš), former state flag of Republic of Macedonia
Schwarz-Rot-Gold, (black-red-gold), Germany, colloquial
- Bundesflagge, (Federal Flag), Germany, official designation
Senyera, Aragon and Catalonia, Spain
Al Tawheed & Shahada (Union)&(Believe in allah and prophet mohammed), Saudi Arabia
Shir-o-Khorshid (the lion and the sun), former flag of Iran
Shqiponja Dykrenare (the two-headed eagle), Albania
Sinimustvalge (blue-black-white), Estonia
Siniristilippu (Blue Cross Flag), Finland
Snow lion flag, Tibet
Southern Cross can refer to the blue saltire as used in various flags of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War- Stars and Bars, Confederate States of America
- Stars and Stripes, United States
- Star-Spangled Banner, United States
Taegeukgi, South Korea
The Rainbow Flag, Unity Flag, or Interim Flag (all unofficial), South Africa
Tiranga, India
Tjúgufáni, state flag of Iceland
Trairong (tricolour),Red-White-Blue, Thailand
Tree Cassyn Vannin (Three Legs of Mann), Isle of Man- Tricolore (tricolour), a term for several national flags
La Tricolor, Ecuador
La Tricolor, Second Spanish Republic (historical)
Drapeau Tricolore, France
Il Tricolore, Italy
Tricolorul, Romania
Trídhathach na hÉireann (Irish tricolour), Ireland
Trikolor, Russia
Üçrəngli Bayrağı (Tricolour Flag), Azerbaijan- Union Flag, flag of the United Kingdom
- Union Jack, state jack and former naval jack of the United States
Wiphala, flag of Andean peoples in Bolivia and Peru
Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí (Five-Starred Red Flag), People's Republic of China
Y Ddraig Goch (the red dragon), Wales
Yerakooyn (Armenian Tricolour), Armenia
Zovto-Blakitnij (yellow-blue), Ukraine
El Tricolor Nacional (yellow-blue-red), Colombia
Sabz Hilali (Green Crescent), Pakistan
Red Flag , Soviet Union
A'najmataynee (The Two Stars), Syria
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