List of Belgian flags
Appearance
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This is a list of flags used in Belgium.
National flag
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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. |
Ensign
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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). |
Military
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1950–present | Flag of the Belgian Army | The Army badge, crowned, on a white field | |
Ensign of the Belgian Air Component | The Air Component badge and roundel on a blue field. | ||
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. | ||
Naval jack of the Belgian Navy | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 1:1 ratio. | ||
Pennant of the Belgian Navy | |||
Standard of the Admiral Benelux |
Sub-national
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Regions and communities
[edit]Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | |
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Brussels-Capital Region | 2015 | Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region | ||
Dutch Community and the Flemish Region | 1973 | Flag of Flanders | ||
French Community and Walloon Region | 1991–present (French Community) 1998–present (Walloon Region) |
Flag of Wallonia | ||
German-speaking community | 1990 | Flag of the German-speaking Community of Belgium |
Provinces
[edit]Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | |
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Antwerp | 1997 | |||
East Flanders | 1999 | |||
Flemish Brabant | 1996 | |||
Hainaut | ||||
Liège | ||||
Limburg | 1996 | |||
Luxembourg | 2018 | Azure and white horizontal stripes with the crowned red lion[1] | ||
Namur | ||||
Walloon Brabant | 1995 | Flag and coat of arms of Walloon Brabant | ||
West Flanders | 1997 |
Community commissions in Brussels
[edit]Flag | Use |
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Flag of the Common Community Commission | |
Flag of the Flemish Community Commission | |
Flag of the French Community Commission |
Municipalities
[edit]Royal standards
[edit]Monarch
[edit]Each royal standard for a monarch is a square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms, personalised with the king's cypher in each corner.
Flag | Date | Use |
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1831–1865 | Royal standard of Leopold I | |
1865–1909 | Leopold II | |
1909–1934 | Albert I | |
1934–1951 | Leopold III | |
1951–1993 | Baudouin I | |
1993–2013 | Albert II | |
2013–present | Philippe |
Historical flags
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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800-888[2] | Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne | A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers. | |
early 1400s[2] | Imperial Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor | An Imperial Eagle displayed with a halo sable armed and langued gules | |
862–1797[2] | Flag of the County of Flanders | A yellow flag with a black lion in the center. | |
900–1477[2] | Flag of the County of Hainaut | A yellow quartered banner with black and red lions. | |
1183–1794[2] | Flag of the Duchy of Brabant | A golden lion on a black field. | |
1482–1714[2] | Flag of Spanish Netherlands | A white flag with the cross of Burgundy. | |
1482–1714[2] | Civil Ensign of Spanish Netherlands | A horizontal tricolour of red, white and yellow, with the Cross of Burgundy in the centre. | |
1713–1740[2] | Flag of the Archduchy of Austria | A yellow field with a black double headed eagle with a crown on top and carrying the tricolored arms of Austria on his chest. | |
1781–1786[3] | Flag of the Austrian Netherlands | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria. | |
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, also of the Republic of Liège | A bicolour, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow. | |
1830–1831 | Flag of the Belgian Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red. | |
c. 1865 | Fanion of the Belgian Legion during the French intervention in Mexico | Tricolour of the Mexican Empire, superimposed with the Belgian tricolour to top left. | |
1883–1920 | Flag of Neutral Moresnet | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue. |
Brussels
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1991–2015 | First version of Flag of Brussels-Capital Region | A blue field with a yellow iris with a white border on top. |
Colonial
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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. |
Political flags
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Current
| |||
2004–present | Flag of the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) | ||
1999–present | Flag of the Nation | ||
1978–present | Flag of the Socialist Party | ||
former
| |||
1978–2004 | Flag of the Vlaams Blok | ||
1949–1983 | Flag of the Order of Flemish Militants | Red odal on black background. | |
1935–1945 | Flag of the Rexist Party | ||
1933–1944 | Flag of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond | ||
1931–1941 | Flag of the Verdinaso | ||
other
| |||
Flemish strijdvlag as adopted by certain parts of the Flemish Movement | |||
Flag of the Wallonie Libre[5] |
House flags of Belgian freight companies
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1895–Present | Compagnie Maritime Belge | ||
1871–1935 | Red Star Line |
Other
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1957–present | Unofficial flag of Benelux | A Dutch tricolour superimposed with a rampant lion and black square | |
1955–present | Flag of Europe | A circle of 12 5-pointed gold (yellow) stars on a blue field. |
References
[edit]- ^ Official email response from the Greffe of the Province of Luxembourg, May 2, 2018
- ^ a b c d e f g h ""The flags of the Belgians through history" plate". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ "Austrian Netherlands (1713–1786)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ "Congo pre-independence – Governors-General flags (1885–1960)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ "QU'EST-CE QUE WALLONIE LIBRE ?". Wallonie Libre (in French).