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Flags of all sovereign nations.

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Name↕	State↕	Flag Name↕	Aspect Ratio↕	Date Adopted↕	Designers↕	Description↕
Afghanistan (Islamic Emirate)	Afghanistan	Afghanistan (Islamic Emirate)	1:2	August 15, 2021	—N/a	White with a black Shahada in Thuluth script in the center. Hoist side depicted to right.
Afghanistan (Islamic Republic)	Afghanistan (Islamic Republic)	Afghanistan (Islamic Republic)	2:3	August 19, 2013	—N/a	Three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), red, and green, with the national emblem in white centered on the red band and slightly overlapping the other 2 bands.
Albania	Albania	Albania	5:7	April 7, 1992	—N/a	Red with a black double-headed eagle in the center.
Algeria	Algeria	Algeria	2:3	July 3, 1962	Disputed	Two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary.
Angola	Angola	Angola	2:3	November 11, 1975	Henrique de Carvalho Santos	Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle).
Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda		November 1, 1981	Reginald Samuel	Red, with an inverted isosceles triangle based on the top edge of the flag; the triangle contains three horizontal bands of black (top), light blue, and white, with a yellow rising sun in the black band.
Argentina	Argentina	Argentina	5:8	November 23, 2010	Manuel Belgrano	Three equal horizontal bands of sky blue (top), white, and sky blue; centered in the white band is a radiant yellow sun with a human face (delineated in brown) known as the Sun of May.
Armenia	Armenia	Armenia	1:2	August 24, 1990	Hovhannes Kajaznuni Stepan Malkhasyants	Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), blue, and orange.
Artigas flag	Artigas flag	Artigas flag		February 18, 1952;	José Gervasio Artigas and José María de Roo	Three horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue with a Red Diagonal Stripe
Australia	Australia	Australia		February 14, 1954	Annie Dorrington Ivor William Evans Leslie Hawkins Egbert Nuttall William Stevens	Blue with the flag of the United Kingdom in the upper hoist-side quadrant and a large seven-pointed star in the lower hoist-side quadrant known as the Commonwealth or Federation Star; on the fly half is a representation of the Southern Cross constellation in white with one small, five-pointed star and four larger, seven-pointed stars.
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	1:2	August 30, 1991	—N/a	Three equal horizontal bands of sky blue (top), red, and green; a vertical crescent moon and an eight-pointed star in white are centered in the red band.
Bahrain	Bahrain	Bahrain	3:5	February 14, 2002	—N/a	Red with a white serrated band (five white points) on the hoist side.
Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Bangladesh		January 17, 1972	Quamrul Hassan	Green field with a large red disk shifted slightly to the hoist side of center.
Barbados	Barbados	Barbados	2:3	November 30, 1966	Grantley Prescod	Three equal vertical bands of ultramarine blue (hoist side), gold, and ultramarine blue with the head of a black trident centered on the gold band.
Belarus	Belarus	Belarus	1:2	May 1, 2012	—N/a.	Red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band one-half the width of the red band; a white vertical stripe on the hoist side bears Belarusian national ornamentation in red.
Belgium	Belgium	Belgium	13:15	January 23, 1831	Édouard Ducpétiaux Lucien Jottrand	Three equal vertical bands of black (hoist side), yellow, and red.
Belize	Belize	Belize	3:5	September 21, 1981	Everal Waight Inéz Sánchez	Royal blue with a narrow red stripe along the top and the bottom edges; centered is a large white disk bearing the coat of arms.
Benin	Benin	Benin	2:3	August 1, 1960	—N/a	Two equal horizontal bands of yellow (top) and red with a vertical green band on the hoist side.
Bhutan	Bhutan	Bhutan		June 8, 1972	Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji	Divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is yellow and the lower triangle is orange; centered along the dividing line is a large black and white Druk facing away from the hoist side.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:2	February 4, 1998	Mladen Kolobarić Nedo Milčević Sado Musabegović Marco Oršolić Ranko Risokević Vehid Šehić Gajo Sekulić	A wide blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top of the flag; the remainder of the flag is blue with seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom along the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	2:3	September 30, 1966	George Winstanley	Light blue with a horizontal white-edged black stripe in the center.
Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	7:10	May 11, 1992	Miguel Lemos Manuel Pereira Reis Raimundo Teixeira Mendes Décio Villares	Green with a large yellow diamond in the center bearing a blue globe with 27 white stars (one for each state and the Federal District) arranged as in the sky over Rio de Janeiro at 8:30 a.m. on November 15, 1889, and containing a banner with the national motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO (lit. 'Order and progress').
Brunei	Brunei	Brunei	1:2	January 1, 1984	—N/a	Yellow with two diagonal bands of white (top, almost double width) and black starting from the upper hoist side; the national emblem in red is superimposed at the center.
Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3:5	November 27, 1990	Stiliana Paraskevova Ivan Paraskevov	Three equal horizontal bands of white (top), green, and red.
Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	2:3	August 4, 1984	Ferdinand Dabiré	Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a yellow five-pointed star in the center.
Burundi	Burundi	Burundi	3:5	September 27, 1982	—N/a	Divided by a white diagonal cross into red panels (top and bottom) and green panels (hoist side and fly side) with a white disk superimposed at the center bearing three red six-pointed stars outlined in green arranged in a triangular design (one star above, two stars below).
Cambodia	Cambodia	Cambodia	2:3	June 30, 1993	—N/a	Three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (double width), and blue with a white, three-towered temple, representing Angkor Wat, outlined in black in the center of the red band.
Cameroon	Cameroon	Cameroon		May 20, 1975	—N/a	Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), red, and yellow, with a yellow five-pointed star centered in the red band.
Canada	Canada	Canada	1:2	February 15, 1965	George Stanley	Two vertical bands of red (hoist and fly side, half width) with a white square between them; an 11-pointed red maple leaf is centered in the white square.
Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	10:17	September 25, 1992	Pedro Gregório	Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 of the length of the flag from the hoist side.
Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	3:5	August 13, 1960	Barthélemy Boganda	Four equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, green, and yellow with a vertical red band in center; a yellow five-pointed star to the hoist side of the blue band.
Chad	Chad	Chad	2:3	November 6, 1959	Naiyia Amina Goudja	Three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), gold, and red.
Chile	Chile	Chile		October 18, 1817	Unclear	Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; a blue square the same height as the white band at the hoist-side end of the white band; the square bears a white five-pointed star in the center.
China	China	China		October 1, 1949	Zeng Liansong	Red with a large yellow five-pointed star and four smaller yellow five-pointed stars (arranged in a vertical arc toward the middle of the flag) in the upper hoist-side corner.
Colombia	Colombia	Colombia		November 26, 1861	—N/a	Three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double-width), blue, and red.
Comoros	Comoros	Comoros	3:5	December 23, 2001	Suzanne Gauthier	Four equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), white, red, and blue, with a green isosceles triangle based on the hoist; centered within the triangle is a vertical white crescent moon with the convex side facing the hoist and four white, five-pointed stars placed vertically in a line between the points of the crescent.
National flag of Costa Rica	Costa Rica	National flag of Costa Rica	3:5	September 29, 1848	Pacífica Fernández Oreamuno	Five horizontal bands of blue (top), white, red (double width), white, and blue.
Croatia	Croatia	Croatia	1:2	December 22, 1990	Miroslav Šutej	Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue superimposed by the coat of arms.
Cuba	Cuba	Cuba		May 20, 1902	Miguel Teurbe Tolón	Five equal horizontal bands of blue (top, center, and bottom) alternating with white; a red equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bears a white, five-pointed star in the center.
Cyprus	Cyprus	Cyprus	2:3	April 24, 2006	İsmet Güney	Centered on a white field is a copper-colored silhouette of the island above two olive-green-colored, crossed olive branches.

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