National flag
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 1998 – present | Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina | A blue field with a wide medium blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top edge of the flag. |
Subnational flags
Entities
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 1995 – 2007 | Flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | A vertical tricolour of red (for the Bosnian Croats), white, and green (for the Bosniaks), with a coat of arms on the wide central band on which the green arms and golden fleur-de-lys represents the Bosniaks, and the checked shield the Bosnian Croats.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted against the use of the current flag of the Federation declaring it unconstitutional.[1] On 31 March 2007, the Constitutional Court placed its decision into the "Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina" officially removing the flag and coat of arms of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] |
| 1995 – present | Flag of Republika Srpska | A horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white, very similar to the flag of the Misiones Province in Argentina, reversed flag of Russia, or the flag of Serbia without the Coat of Arms (with slightly differently coloured shades). |
Cantons of the Federation
Historical national flags
Proposed flags
First set of proposals
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| Proposed, never used | First alternative in the first set of proposals. | Similar to the flag of the Czech Republic. A green and red horizontal bicolour with a blue triangle in the hoist. |
| Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the first set of proposals. | Similar to the flag of the United Nations. A light blue field with a branch of wheat. |
| Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the first set of proposals. | A blue field with an outline of the map of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Second set of proposals
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| Proposed, never used | First alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 10 gold 5-pointed stars. |
| Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 12 gold 5-pointed stars. |
| Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches. |
| Proposed, never used | Fourth alternative in the second set of proposals. | A red, white, and blue tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches. |
Third set of proposals
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| Proposed, used briefly in 1998 | First alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | Identical to the national flag that was adopted, but with a field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses. |
| Proposed, never used | Second alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with three gold and two white stripes, interleaved so as to form a rectangle in the centre. |
| Proposed, never used | Third alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals). | A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with five gold and five white stripes, interleaved so as to form a triangle in the centre. |
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Names in italics indicate non-sovereign (dependent) territories, disputed states and/or former countries. |