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Flag of Belgium .
Flags on the town hall of Ypres with (left to right) the European, Belgian and Flemish Community flags
The royal standard of King Albert II
This is a list of flags used in Belgium .
National Flag
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1831–present
Flag of Belgium
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 13:15 ratio. Technically the national flag, but rarely seen in the officially approved dimensions.
Sub-national
Regions and Communities
Provinces
Royal Standards
Monarch
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2013–present
Royal Standard of Philippe I
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner.
1993–2013
Royal Standard of Albert II
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner.
1951–1993
Royal Standard of Baudouin I
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner.
1934–1951
Royal Standard of Leopold III
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner.
1909–1934
Royal Standard of Albert I
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner.
Royal Consort
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2013–present
Royal Standard of the Queen Mathilde
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner.
1993–present
Royal Standard of the Queen Paola
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner.
1960–2014
Royal Standard of the Queen Fabiola
A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner.
Ensign
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1831–present
Civil Ensign of Belgium
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 2:3 ratio.
1950–present
State Ensign of Belgium
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red defaced by a lion rampant ensigned by a crown, both sable (black), the lion armed and langued gules (red).
1950–present
Yacht Ensign of Belgium
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with the royal crown in canton.
Military
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1950–present
Flag of the Belgian Army
The Army badge, crowned, on a white field
1950–present
Ensign of the Belgian Air Force
The Air Force roundel on a blue field.
1950–present
Naval Ensign of the Belgian Navy
A yellow saltire on a white field, bordered above and below in red and to the left and right in black, charged on the top with a crown above crossed cannons and on the bottom by a fouled anchor.
1950–present
Naval Jack of the Belgian Navy
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 1:1 ratio.
Pennant of the Belgian navy
Historical
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1930-1944
Flag of the Rexist Party
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Flag of the Flemish Movement (Strijdvlag ) and Flemish far-right
A black lion (design different from the Flemish Community flag) on a yellow field
1918-20
Flag of Neutral Moresnet
A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue.
c.1865
Fanion of the Belgian Legion during the French intervention in Mexico
Tricolour of Mexican Empire , superimposed with the Belgian tricolour to top left.
1830
Flag of the revolutionary volunteers from Liège , led by Charles Rogier , during the Belgian Revolution
Bicolour of Liège, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow, with the superimposed slogan "Vanquish or Die for Brussels"
1830–1831
Flag of the Belgian Revolution
A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red.
1815–1830
Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue.
1794–1815
Flag of the French First Republic , later the French First Empire
A tricolour, with three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue. Briefly used by Belgian revolutionaries in 1830.
1789–1790
Flag of the Brabant Revolution
A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, black and yellow.
~1790s
Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège , but also of the Republic of Liège
A bicolour, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow.
1781–1786[2]
Flag of the Austrian Netherlands
A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria.
15th–18th centuries[3]
Flag of the Habsburg Netherlands and later the Spanish Netherlands
A white flag with a red Cross of Burgundy .
1858
Royal ensign
Colonial
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1908–1960
Flag of the Belgian Congo
A blue flag with yellow five-pointed star.
1936–1960[4]
Standard of the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo
A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red, with a yellow star in the upper left canton on a blue field.
Other
References
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Other entities By design
(National , Gallery )
By nations
Names in
italics indicate
non-sovereign (dependent) territories, disputed states and/or former countries.