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Flag of Romania

Flag of Romania (drapelul României): vertical blue-yellow-red tricolor, 2:3, defined by Law 75/1994 with Pantone 280c/116c/186c colors; adopted 1848, plain since 1989; nearly identical to Chad's flag except a darker blue.

Flag of Russia

Flag of Russia (Государственный флаг Российской Федерации): white-blue-red horizontal tricolour, 2:3 ratio, defined by the 25 December 2000 federal constitutional law, restored 22 August 1991, traced to Peter I's 1705 merchant-fleet decree.

Flag of Sardinia

Flag of Sardinia, the Four Moors flag (Sos battor moros): white field, red St George's cross, four Moor's heads facing the fly; Aragonese origin (1281 seal), official regional flag since 1952 decree and 1999 law.

Flag of Saudi Arabia

Flag of Saudi Arabia: green 2:3 national flag bearing the white Shahada in Thuluth script and a sword, adopted March 11, 1937, codified by the 1973 Law of the Flag, never flown at half-mast.

Flag of Scotland

Flag of Scotland, the Saltire or St Andrew's Cross: white diagonal cross on blue (azure, a saltire argent). National flag since at least 1286; recorded by the Lord Lyon in 1672; Pantone 300 blue; part of the Union Flag since 1606.

Flag of Serbia

Flag of Serbia (Застава Републике Србије): horizontal red-blue-white tricolour, 3:2 ratio, used as State flag with Small Coat of Arms shifted 1/7 toward the mast and as National flag without arms, governed by the 2009 law.

Flag of Siberia

The flag of Siberia is an unofficial white-and-green banner symbolizing Siberia's snows and forests, adopted by the regionalist movement, first raised at Tomsk in 1917, and briefly official in 1918.

Flag of Sicily

Flag of Sicily (bandiera siciliana): official yellow-red regional bicolour with the Trinacria triskelion and Gorgoneion, adopted by regional law of 4 January 2000, with medieval roots in the 1282 Sicilian Vespers.

Flag of Singapore

Flag of Singapore: red-over-white bicolour with white crescent and five stars in a circle, 2:3 ratio. Designed under Toh Chin Chye, adopted 1959, national flag since 1965, governed by the National Symbols Act 2022.

Flag of Somalia

Flag of Somalia: light blue field with a centered white five-pointed star, adopted 12 October 1954, designed by Mohammed Awale Liban, official since 1 July 1960; star points represent five Somali-inhabited regions.

Flag of South Africa

National flag of South Africa, designed by State Herald Fred Brownell, first hoisted 27 April 1994; six colors in a Y-shaped pall symbolizing convergence and unity, adopted by the TEC on 15 March 1994.

Flag of South Africa (1928–1994)

Flag of South Africa (1928–1994), Oranje Blanje Blou: orange-white-blue tricolour adopted 31 May 1928 with Prinsevlag, Union Jack, and Orange Free State Vierkleur flaglets; flown through apartheid until 27 April 1994.

Flag of South Carolina

The flag of South Carolina, also called the South Carolina State Flag, is an indigo-blue banner with a white crescent and palmetto tree, adopted on January 28, 1861.

Flag of South Korea

Flag of South Korea (Taegeukgi, 태극기): national flag with white field, red-blue taegeuk, four black trigrams; created 1882, promulgated 1883, standardized by guidelines on October 15, 1949.

Flag of South Vietnam

Flag of South Vietnam: yellow field with three red horizontal stripes, national flag of the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975, adopted 2 June 1948; now the Vietnamese heritage and freedom flag of the diaspora, treated as subversive in Vietnam.

Flag of Spain

Flag of Spain (Bandera de España, rojigualda): red-yellow-red horizontal triband with double-width yellow stripe, created as a naval ensign by Charles III's 28 May 1785 royal decree, made the national flag in 1843, defined in the 1978 Constitution.

Flag of Sri Lanka

Flag of Sri Lanka, the Lion Flag (සිංහ ධජය): golden lion with sword on maroon with four bo leaves, green and orange hoist stripes in 1:1:5 proportion. Royal Kandyan origin, redesigned 1950, revised 1972, part of the 1978 Constitution.

Flag of Sweden

Flag of Sweden: blue field with a gold Nordic cross shifted toward the hoist, defined by Lag 1982:269 with 10:16 proportions, NCS 4055-R95B blue and 0580-Y10R yellow, plus a three-tongued military variant.

Flag of Switzerland

Flag of Switzerland: square national flag with a white cross on Pantone 485C red, arms one-sixth longer than wide; first used at Laupen 1339, official 1848, dimensions fixed 1889.

Flag of Syria

Flag of Syria: green-white-black tricolour with three red stars, the 1932 independence flag readopted after Assad's fall in December 2024; distinct from the 1980–2024 red-white-black two-star Assad-era flag.

Flag of Tennessee

Flag of Tennessee: the TriStar state flag of a crimson field, blue circle, and three white stars for East, Middle, and West Tennessee, designed by Le Roy Reeves and adopted April 17, 1905, replacing the 1897 Centennial flag.

Flag of Texas

Flag of Texas (Lone Star Flag): the 1839 national flag of the Republic of Texas, adopted January 25, 1839 under President Lamar. Rectangular 2:3, blue vertical stripe with one white five-pointed star, white over red; colors Pantone 193 and 281.

Flag of Thailand (ธงไตรรงค์)

Thong Trairong (ธงไตรรงค์), Thailand's national flag: five horizontal stripes red, white, blue (double width), white, red, adopted 28 September 1917 by King Vajiravudh; colors stand for nation, religion, and monarchy.

Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

The flag of the Byelorussian SSR, adopted in 1951, was a red and green flag with a distinctive white ornamental stripe designed by Matrena Markevich in 1917.

Flag of the Czech Republic

Flag of the Czech Republic (státní vlajka): white-red bicolor with blue wedge to half the flag, ratio 2:3. Designed by Jaroslav Kursa, adopted 1920 for Czechoslovakia, re-adopted by law 3/1993 Sb.

Flag of the Dominican Republic

Flag of the Dominican Republic (Bandera Dominicana): quartered ultramarine blue and vermilion red flag with a white cross and a coat of arms containing an open Bible, designed by Juan Pablo Duarte in 1838, first flown 27 February 1844.

Flag of the Islamic State

Black banner of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) bearing the white shahada and the Seal of Muhammad in a white circle; first released by al-Fajr Media in January 2007, appropriated from earlier jihadist groups, and flown over its 2014-2019 caliphate territory.

Flag of the Isle of Man

Flag of the Isle of Man, brattagh Vannin: red field with a clockwise triskelion of three armoured, spurred legs joined at the thigh; motto Quocunque Jeceris Stabit; royal warrants 1932, 1971, 1996; based on arms of King Magnus III.

Flag of the Kingdom of France

Flag of the Kingdom of France: a plain white royal flag after 1661 and the Restoration emblem 1814–1830, preceded by the blue banner with gold fleurs-de-lis fixed at three flowers by Charles V, and replaced by the tricolour.

Flag of the Netherlands

The flag of the Netherlands, also called the Dutch flag or Vlag van Nederland, is a horizontal red, white, and blue tricolour officially established in 1937 and considered the oldest tricolour still in use.