The following is a list of flags used in Belize. For more information about the national flag, see the Flag of Belize.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2019-Present | Flag of Belize | A royal blue field with two red narrow horizontal stripes along the top and the bottom edges and the large white disk in the centre bearing the National Coat of Arms. [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1981-Present | Flag of the governor-general of Belize | [5] | |
Link to file | 1978-Present | Flag of Belize Defence Force |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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?-Present | Flag of the Maya People | ||
?-Present | Flag of the Garifuna People | [6] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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?-Present | Flag of the Belize City | [7] | |
?-Present | Flag of Belmopan | [8] | |
?-Present | Flag of San Ignacio | [9] | |
?-Present | Flag of Sarteneja | [10] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1524-1785 | Flag of Spain | A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field. | |
1665-1700 | Flag of England | A white field with centred red cross. | |
1785-1821 | Flag of Spain | three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, with the coat of arms. the yellow strip being twice as wide as each red stripe. | |
1821-1823 | Flag of the First Mexican Empire | Three vertical strips green, white and red, with the Imperial Coat of Arms in the center. | |
1823-1825 | Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America | Three horizontal strips light blue (upper and lower) and white (central), with the coat of arms in the center. | |
1825-1836 | Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America | Similar to the previous flag. | |
1836-1870 | Flag of the United Kingdom | A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's Saltire (representing Ireland). | |
1870-1919 | Flag of the British Honduras (Blue Ensign) | A blue ensign with the arms of British Honduras. [11] | |
1870-1919 | Flag of the British Honduras (Red Ensign) | A red ensign with the arms of British Honduras. | |
1884-1981 | Former flag of the governor-general of British Honduras/Belize | A Union Jack defaced with the arms of British Honduras. | |
1919-1981 | Flag of the British Honduras (Blue Ensign) | A blue ensign with the arms of British Honduras. [12] [13] | |
1919-1981 | Flag of the British Honduras (Red Ensign) | A red ensign with the arms of British Honduras. | |
1950-1981 | First flag of Belize | blue field with the large white disk in the centre bearing the National Coat of Arms. [14] | |
1981-2019 | Second flag of Belize | similar to the present flag. |
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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1950–present | People's United Party | ||
1973–present | United Democratic Party | ||
Link to file | 2013–present | Belize People's Front | |
Link to file | 2015–present | Belize Progressive Party |
Sir Manuel Amadeo Esquivel was a Belizean politician. As leader of the United Democratic Party, he served as the second prime minister of Belize from 1984 to 1989, and then again from 1993 to 1998. His party's victory in 1984 was the first time an opposition party had won a general election in Belize.
The flag of Belize was adopted on 21 September 1981, the day Belize became independent. It consists of the coat of arms of Belize within a white circle on a blue field with red stripes at the top and bottom.
The coat of arms of Belize was adopted upon independence, and the current coat of arms is only slightly different from that used when Belize was a British colony.
The flag of Pennsylvania consists of a blue field on which the state coat of arms is displayed.