List of flag names

This is an incomplete list of flag nicknames, organized in alphabetical order by flag name. Almost no flag has any really official name, even if some of these unofficial names may be so widely accepted that they are virtually universally used anyway.

A

Commonwealth Blue Ensign, Australia
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 Albiceleste or La Celeste y Blanca ("The white and light blue one"), Argentina
A'najmataynee ("The Two Stars"), Syria

B

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 ("Flag of Saint David"), Wales (unofficial flag)
Baner Peran ("St. Piran's flag"), Cornwall
Bhagwa Dhwaj ("Saffron Banner"), Hindu religious flag and former flag of the Maratha Empire
Biało-Czerwona ("White-Red"), Poland
Bieł-Čyrvona-Bieł ("White-Red-White"), historical flag of Belarus
Bindenschild, Austria
Bo Najma w Hlal ("Flag of the Star and the Crescent"), Libya
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"), former flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bratach-Croise ("Saltire"), Scotland
The Broken Trident, Barbados
Bundesflagge ("Federal Flag"), Germany, official designation
Български трикольор/Balgarski Trikolyor ("Bulgarian Three Colours"), Bulgaria

C

Crois Naomh Anndra ("St. Andrew's Cross"), Scotland
Cờ đỏ sao vàng ("Red Flag and Yellow Star"), Vietnam
Crotz occitana ("Occitan cross"), Occitania

D

Dannebrog ("Danish cloth"), Denmark
Derti ("My Nation/Land"), Kuwait

E

Erfalasorput ("Our flag"), Greenland
La Estrella Solitaria ("The Lonely Star"), Chile,
La Estrella Solitaria ("The Lonely Star"), Cuba
Estelada blava ("Blue-Starred Flag"), Catalan separatism
Eureka Flag, Australia
Eureka Jack, Australia

F

Five Coloured Flag, Jain flag
Fleurdelisé ("Fleur-de-lis-y"), Quebec

G

Galanolefki ("Light blue and white"), Greece
Golden Arrowhead, Guyana
Gwenn-ha-du ("White and black"), Brittany

H

Hinomaru ("Sun disc"), Japan (national flag and naval flag)
Hvítbláinn, a flag proposal which was used but never became official, Iceland

I

Ikurriña ("Flag"), Basque Country (the autonomous community, the region, and more generally the Basque people, culture and language)
Innabi ("The Maroon"), Qatar

J

Jalur Gemilang ("Stripes of Glory"), Malaysia
Jefferson Seal flag, Jefferson (proposed U.S. state)

K

Kanaka Maoli ("True People"), Hawaii (alternative flag)
Kaponga (silver fern), New Zealand (unofficial, widely used)
Khanjar Oo Sayfain ("Dagger and two swords"), Oman
Khutjvriani Drosha ("Five-cross flag"), Georgia
Kök Bayraq ("Blue Banner"), East Turkestan

L

Lal-Sobuj ("Red & green"), Bangladesh
Leòmhann na h-Alba ("Lion Rampant"), Scotland
Maple Leaf or l'Unifolié, Canada
Merkið ("The Banner"), Faroe Islands
Nishan Sahib ("Holy flag"/"Exalted banner"), Sikh flag
Nisshōki ("Sun flag"), Japan

O

Old Glory, United States

P

Prinsenvlag ("Prince's flag"), Netherlands (historical)
Piros-fehér-zöld ("Red-White-Green"), Hungary

Q

Qaumi Parcham ("National flag"), Pakistan
青天、白日、滿地紅 (Qīng Tiān, Bái Rì, Mǎn Dì Hóng) ("Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Field"), Republic of China (Taiwan)

R

The Rainbow Flag, Unity Flag, or Interim Flag (all unofficial), South Africa
Rainbow flag, 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.
Red Ensign or Red Duster, the civil ensign of the United Kingdom
красный флаг СССР (krasnyy flag SSSR) ("Red Flag USSR"), Soviet Union
Российский триколор (Rosiiski Trikolor) ("Russian Three Colours"), Russia
Rojigualda ("Red-weld"), Spain
Rot-Weiss-Rot ("Red-white-red"), Austria
De Roude Léiw ("Red Lion"), civil ensign of Luxembourg

S

Sabz Hilali ("Green Crescent"), Pakistan
Saint George's Cross, England
Saint Petroc's Flag, Devon
Sarkanbaltsarkanais karogs ("Red-white-red flag"), Latvia
Sang Saka Merah Putih ("The Red White"), Indonesia
Ѕвездата од Кутлеш ("Sun of Kutleš'), Republic of Macedonia (historical flag)
Schwarz-Rot-Gold ("Black-red-gold"), Germany
Senyera, Alghero and Catalonia
Shir-o-Khorshid ('The lion and the sun"), Iran (historical flag)
Shqiponja Dykrenare ("The two-headed eagle"), Albania
Sinimustvalge ("Blue-black-white"), Estonia
Siniristilippu ("Blue Cross Flag"), Finland
Snow lion flag, Tibet
Southern Cross, Confederate States of America (other meanings)
Southern Cross Flag, Australia
Southern Cross Flag, New Zealand
Stars and Bars, Confederate States of America
Stars and Stripes, United States
Star-Spangled Banner, United States
50 Stars and 7 red 6 white stripes, United States

T

Taegeukgi, South Korea
Tatlong bituin at isang araw ("Three Stars and a Sun"), Philippines
asul sa itaas pula sa ibaba ("blue above red below"),Philippines
Al Tawheed/Shahada, Saudi Arabia
Tiranga, India
Tjúgufáni, state flag of Iceland
Trairong ("Tricolour"), Thailand
Tree Cassyn Vannin ("Three Legs of Mann"), Isle of Man
Tricolor or similar, a term for several national flags which are tribands or tricolours:
- La Tricolor ("The Tricolor"), Bolivia
- El Tricolor Nacional ("The National Tricolor"), Colombia
- La Tricolor, Ecuador
- Tricolor Nacional ("National Tricolour"), Venezuela
- La Tricolor, Second Spanish Republic (historical)
- Drapeau Tricolore ("Tricolour Flag"), France
- Il Tricolore, Italy
- Tricolorul, Romania
- Триколор (Trikolor), Russia
Trídhathach na hÉireann ("Irish tricolour"), Ireland
Trinacria, Sicily

U

Üçrəngli Bayrağı ("Tricolour Flag"), Azerbaijan
L'Union Fait La Force ("Unity makes strength"), motto on the flag of Haiti
Union Jack or Union Flag, United Kingdom
Union Jack, jack of the United States Navy

W

Wiphala, a flag representing the native peoples of the Andes and the co-official flag of Bolivia
五星红旗 (Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí) ("Five-Starred Red Flag"), People's Republic of China