List of Burmese flags
This is a list of flags used in Myanmar.
National flags
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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21 October 2010 | Flag of Myanmar | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre. |
Military
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of the Myanmar Armed Forces, Tatmadaw | |||
Flag of the Myanmar Army | A red field defaced with the crest of the Myanmar Army. | ||
Flag of the Myanmar Air Force | A sky blue field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly. | ||
Naval ensign of the Myanmar Navy | White field with a red canton charged with a white five-pointed star. A blue anchor in the lower fly.[1] | ||
1948–1974 | Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma | ||
1948–1974 | Former Air Force Ensign of the Union of Burma |
Police
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of the Myanmar Police Force | Three vertical bands of yellow, blue and red with a union star in the middle. |
Administrative divisions
The flags of the Burmese states and regions exhibit a variety of regional influences and local histories, as well as different styles and design principles. Modern state flags date from the 1940s, when Myanmar was starting to gain its independence from the colonial British Empire. Most state flags were designed and adopted after independence in 1948.
States
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of Chin State | |||
Flag of Kachin State | |||
Flag of Kayah State | |||
Flag of Kayin State | |||
8 June 2018[2] | Flag of Mon State | ||
Flag of Rakhine State | |||
12 February 1947 | Flag of Shan State |
Regions
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of Ayeyarwady Region | |||
Flag of Bago Region | |||
Flag of Magway Region | |||
Flag of Mandalay Region | |||
Flag of Sagaing Region | |||
Flag of Tanintharyi Region | |||
Flag of Yangon Region |
Union territory
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of Naypyidaw Union Territory | |||
Self-administered zones and divisions
The self-administered zones and divisions of Naga Self-Administered Zone, Danu Self-Administered Zone, Pa-O Self-Administered Zone, Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone, Kokang Self-Administered Zone and Wa Self-Administered Division do not seem to have their own flags.
Historical
Kingdom flags
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag used in the Hanthawaddy Kingdom (c. 1300 – 1500) | |||
Flag of the Third Burmese Empire under the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885) |
Colonial and national flags
Flag | Date adopted | Use | Description |
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Flag of British Burma as a part of British India (1824–1937) | |||
Flag of British Burma as a separate colony (1939–1941, 1945 – January 3, 1948) | |||
Flag of British Burma (1941–1942) | |||
Provisional flag used during the Japanese Occupation (1942–1943) | |||
Flag of the State of Burma (1943–1945) | |||
Simplified flag of the State of Burma (1945) | |||
Flag of the Union of Burma (4 January 1948 – 3 January 1974) | |||
Former Civil Ensign of the Union of Burma (1952–1974) | |||
Flag of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (3 January 1974 – 18 September 1988), flag of the Union of Myanmar (18 September 1988 – 21 October 2010) | |||
Former Civil Ensign of the Union of Burma (1974–2010) |
See also
References
- ↑ Burmese Flags (Myanmar) from The World Flag Database. Flags.net (21 October 2010). Retrieved on 2011-05-27.
- ↑ Khant, Naung (8 June 2018). "Mon State Hluttaw approves picture of golden hamsa on red background as Mon State flag". Burma News International. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
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