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This is a list of flags used in Myanmar (also known as Burma ).
Union flag
Flags of administrative divisions
States
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1986[ 4]
Flag of Chin State
Hornbill on a branch within a white circle surrounded by 9 white stars atop a blue-red-green horizontal triband
2010
Flag of Kachin State
Blue circle with white mountains defaced with Manaw poles on a green field
2010
Flag of Kayah State
A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
Flag of Kayin State
Blue-white-red horizontal triband with a white star inset on top-left of blue band
8 June 2018[ 5]
Flag of Mon State
Yellow Hamsa on a red field
c. 2002
Flag of Rakhine State
Emblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa , on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour
12 February 1947[ 6]
Flag of Shan State
White circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband
Regions
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2022
Flag of Ayeyarwady Region
Seal of Ayeyarwady Region on a blue field
c. 2018
Flag of Bago Region
Female hamsa perched on a male hamsa within a white circle bordered in green on a dark blue field. The text ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Bago Region") is above the birds.
2021
Flag of Magway Region
Seal of Magway Region on a yellow field
2022
Flag of Mandalay Region
Seal of Mandalay Region on a blue field
30 September 2019 [ 7]
Flag of Sagaing Region
Seal of Sagaing Region centred on a yellow-blue-red horizontal triband with the text ‹See Tfd› စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Sagaing Region") above the seal within the yellow band.
2010
Flag of Tanintharyi Region
Naga facing forward with a white star above on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
2022
Flag of Yangon Region
Inner portion of the Seal of Yangon Region centred on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband with the text ‹See Tfd› ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ("Yangon Region Government Group") on a white banner below the seal.
Union territory
Self-administered zones and divisions
Self-administered zones
Self-administered divisions
Flag
Date
Use
Description
Flag of the Wa Self-Administered Division
Blue-red horizontal bicolour with a red sun on the blue band and three green mountains separated by white valleys on the red band
Military flags
Flag
Date adopted
Use
Description
Flag of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw )[ 13] [ 14]
A horizontal triband of red, white and blue; charged with a large yellow five-pointed star at the centre [ 15]
Commander-in-Chief
Army
Flag
Date adopted
Use
Description
c. 1994
Flag of the Myanmar Army
A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre
Ceremonial Guidon of the Myanmar Army
Regional Military Commands
Flag
Use
Description
Flag of the Northern Command
Flag of the North Western Command
Flag of the North Eastern Command
Flag of the Eastern Command
Flag of the Eastern Central Command
Flag of the Triangle Region Command
Flag of the Western Command
Flag of the Naypyitaw Command
Flag of the Central Command
Flag of the Southern Command
Flag of the South Western Command
Flag of the Yangon Command
Flag of the South Eastern Command
Flag of the Coastal Region Command
Common flags
Flag
Use
Description
Flag of the Infantry and Light Infantry
A red field charged with Bandula badge: a white ancient Burmese helmet crossed by a white sword and a white spear
Flag of the Armour Corps
Flag of the Artillery Corps
Flag of the Signal Corps
Flag of the Engineering Corps
Flag of the Ordnance Services
Flag of the Defence Industries
Flag of the Security Printing Works
Flag of the Recovery and Resettlement Units
Flag of the Border Guard Forces [ 20]
Battalions
Infantry Battalions
Flag of the No. (14) Infantry Battalion
Divisions
Light Infantry Divisions
Flag of the No. (11) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (22) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (33) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (11) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (55) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (66) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (77) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (88) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (99) Light Infantry Division
Flag of the No. (101) Light Infantry Division
Navy
Flag
Date adopted
Use
Description
1994
Naval ensign of the Myanmar Navy
White field with a red canton charged with a white five-pointed star and a blue anchor in the lower fly [ 19]
Commissioning pennant of the Myanmar Navy
Air Force
Flag
Date adopted
Use
Description
c. 2010s
Air force ensign of the Myanmar Air Force
A seagull field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly
Law enforcement flag
Flag
Date adopted
Use
Description
Flag of the Myanmar Police Force
Three vertical bands of yellow, blue and red with a union star in the middle
Ensign of the Myanmar Coast Guard
White field with a blue canton charged with a white five-pointed star and two blue anchor crossed in the lower fly [ 21]
Ministry flags
Religious flags
Flag
Date Adopted
Name and Use
Description
1956
Sasana Flag, the flag of Buddhism in Myanmar
Vertical bands of blue, yellow, red, white, light pink and the vertical band of the combination of these five colours' rectangular bands.[ 24]
A variant using pink in place of light pink
1954
Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Islamic Religious Affairs Council
A red field defaced with a green rectangular canton with Islamic religious text in the upper hoist[ 25]
Flag of the Young Men's Buddhist Association
A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a yellow circle at the centre; a green Swastika on that circle and each of the four red alphabets — "Y", "M", "B", "A" — inside each blank between the arms of Swastika [ 26]
Historical flags
National
Flag
Date
Use
Description
c. 1300s – c. 1500s
Flag used in the Hanthawaddy Kingdom
A green field with a golden hamsa in the centre
c. 1480 – c. 1800s
National flag under various Burmese dynasties
A white field with a green peacock in the centre
c. 1826 – 1885
National flag of the Third Burmese Empire under the late Konbaung Dynasty
A swallowtail with white field charged with a peacock biting a flower branch on a red disk in the centre of the field [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30]
1886 – 1942 ;
Union Flag of The United Kingdom used as the State flag of British Burma
1945 – 4 January 1948[ 31]
1942–1943
Flag of Japanese occupied Burma
1 August 1943[ 32] [ 33] – 1945
State flag of the State of Burma
1943–1945
Stylized variant flag of the State of Burma
Vertical:[ 34]
4 January 1948[ 31] – 3 January 1974[ 35]
Former National Flag of the Union of Burma
A red field defaced with a blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist, and a big white star with five small white stars inside the rays of it in the canton.[ 34]
3 January 1974[ 35] –21 October 2010[ 1]
Former State Flag of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974-1988), later, the Union of Myanmar (1988–2010)
The background is red field with blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist. Inside the blue canton are the 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear.[ 36]
Colonial
Flag
Date
Use
Description
6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941;[ 32]
Colonial flag of British Burma
British Blue Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Badge of Burma: a peacock on a golden disk
1945 - 3 January 1948
30 March 1941 – 1942[ 32]
Colonial flag of British Burma
Union Jack removed and the badge moved to centre
Govenmental
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1753–1885
Royal Standard used in royal occasions by the Konbaung Dynasty [ 37]
A red peacock sewn on a white silk flag
1886–1939
Standard of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [ 38]
Union Jack with the Order of the Star of India in the centre, surmounted by the Tudor Crown.
1939–1948
Standard of the Governor of Burma [ 38]
Union Jack with the Badge of Burma in the centre
1952–1974
Former Government Ensign of the Union of Burma [ 39]
A blue field with the national flag in the canton.
1948–1962
Former presidential flag of the Union of Burma [ 39] [ 38]
An orange field background charged with a peacock in the centre
Embassy
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1949
Flag hoisted at the Embassy of the Union of Burma to the Republic of China in Nanjing [ 40]
National flag with Palace city wall on lower fly
Civil
Military
Commander-in-Chief
Army
Flag
Name (in Burmese )
Date
Use
Description
‹See Tfd› သတ္တရုမြဇမ္ဗူ
c. 1784 –1885
War flags of the Burmese Royal Armed Forces [ 44]
Golden field charged with a red disk with a golden peacock on it, at the centre
‹See Tfd› သတ္တရုဇေယ
Golden field charged with a green disk with a latte rabbit on it, at the centre
‹See Tfd› မဟာသတ္တရု
Latte field charged with a bīlūḥ holding up both hands with weapons
‹See Tfd› သတ္တရုဇမ္ဗူ
A horizontal triband of red, latte and red; with a chinthe in the latte band.
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်လက်ဝဲ
A horizontal triband of red, blue and red
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်ဝရဇိန်
A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်တမွတ်စံ
A horizontal triband of red, mallard and red
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်မှန်ကင်း
A horizontal triband of red, william and red
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်နတ်
A horizontal triband of red, falu and red
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်စက်ထိ
A horizontal triband of yellow, white and yellow
‹See Tfd› ရွှေပြည်တံဆိပ်
A horizontal triband of green, yellow and green
1853-1876
Flag used by Portuguese mercenaries from Burmese Royal Artillery
1942-1945
War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma
1941
(First) flag of the Burma Independence Army
A white field with a red peacock in the centre [ 45]
1942
(Second) flag of the Burma Independence Army
A green field with a peacock in the centre and thunderbolts in the corners [ 46]
‹See Tfd› သုံးရောင်ခြယ်အလံ
1942
(Third) flag of the Burma Independence Army
A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a peacock on a white disk at the centre
1942-1945
Flag of the Burma Defence Army , later, the Burma National Army
A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a stylized red peacock at the centre
‹See Tfd› တော်လှန်ရေးအလံ
1945
Flag of the anti-fascist resistance guerrillas and the Burma National Army , later, Patriotic Burmese Forces
A red field with a white five-pointed star in the upper hoist [ 34]
1948–c. 1994
Former flag of the Burma Army, later, Myanmar Army
A horizontal triband of red, blue and red, charged with a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe
Navy
Air Force
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1948–1974
Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force
1974 – c. 2010
Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force , later, the Myanmar Air Force [ 41]
A dodger blue field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly
Administrative Divisions
States
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1974–2010
Former flag of Kachin State
A dark blue field charged with mountains
1974–2018
Former flag of Mon State
A blue field charged with a yellow hamsa in the centre and the text ‹See Tfd› မွန်ပြည်နယ် (meaning "Mon State") underneath it
1974–2010
Former flag of Kayah State
A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband; a small blue canton defaced on the red band; inside the canton, 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear
before c. 2002
Former flag of Rakhine State
Emblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa , on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour
Divisions / Regions
Flag
Date
Use
Description
Proposed in 2006
Flag proposed for Myanmar at the 2006 Plenary Session of the National Convention
A horizontal tricolour of green, yellow and red, with a white five-pointed star in the canton
Proposed in 2019
The National League for Democracy 's proposed flag for Myanmar
A red field with a blue canton, in which there is a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of 14 small white five-pointed stars
Proposed in 2019
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy 's proposed flag for Myanmar
A light blue field with a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of eight small white five-pointed stars, with three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red in the hoist
Proposed in 2019
The Zomi Congress for Democracy 's proposed flag for Myanmar
A light blue field with a white map of Myanmar in the centre surrounded by an orange oval ring
Proposed in 2019
The National Unity Party 's proposed flag for Myanmar
A yellow-brown field with a grey oval in the centre surrounded by a black ring and containing a map of Myanmar displaying the individual states and regions of the country in various colours
See also
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