This is a list of flags used in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 21 October 2010 [1] | State Flag [2] of Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also called the Union Flag [3] | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre |
Variants | |||
![]() | Vertical [4] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1986 [5] | Flag of Chin State | Hornbill on a branch within a white circle surrounded by 9 white stars atop a blue-red-green horizontal triband |
![]() | 2010 | Flag of Kachin State | Blue circle with white mountains defaced with Manaw poles on a green field |
![]() | 2010 | Flag of Kayah State | A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband |
![]() | Flag of Kayin State | Blue-white-red horizontal triband with a white star inset on top-left of blue band | |
![]() | 8 June 2018 [6] | Flag of Mon State | Yellow Hamsa on a red field |
![]() | Flag of Rakhine State | Emblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa, on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour | |
![]() | 12 February 1947 [7] | Flag of Shan State | White circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 2022 | Flag of Ayeyarwady Region | Seal of Ayeyarwady Region on a blue field |
![]() | c. 2018 | Flag of Bago Region | Female hamsa perched on a male hamsa within a white circle bordered in green on a dark blue field. The text ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Bago Region") is above the birds. |
![]() | 2021 | Flag of Magway Region | Seal of Magway Region on a yellow field with the text မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Magway Region") above the seal in green. |
![]() | 2010 (except 2021) | Flag of Mandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field |
![]() | 30 September 2019 [8] | Flag of Sagaing Region | Seal of Sagaing Region centred on a yellow-blue-red horizontal triband with the text စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Sagaing Region") above the seal within the yellow band. |
![]() | 2010 | Flag of Tanintharyi Region | Naga facing forward with a white star above on a red-blue-green horizontal triband |
![]() | 2022 | Flag of Yangon Region | Inner portion of the Seal of Yangon Region centred on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband with the text ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ("Yangon Region Government Group") on a white banner below the seal. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Naypyidaw Union Territory | Seal of the Naypyidaw Union Territory on a teal-blue field |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 2017 [9] | Flag of the Danu Self-Administered Zone [10] [11] [12] | Blue over yellow bicolour with a green disc at the centre charged with a white flower |
![]() | Flag of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone | Blue-red-green horizontal triband charged with a white star and 8 white circular rings forming an arc above the star. | |
![]() | Flag of the Naga Self-Administered Zone [13] [12] | White over red bicolour with a green square in the upper hoist charged with two crossed spears and a tribal headdress | |
![]() | Flag of the Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone | Red circle on a light blue-yellow-green horizontal triband. | |
![]() | 1955 | Flag of the Pa'O Self-Administered Zone [12] | White star within a blue canton on a red-green horizontal bicolour |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Wa Self-Administered Division | There is no official flag, the flag of Myanmar is used |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) [14] [15] | A horizontal triband of red, white and blue; charged with a large yellow five-pointed star at the centre [16] | |
![]() | Flag of the Ministry of Defence (Myanmar) |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 2015 | Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services [17] [18] | A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with five golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw [16] |
![]() | 2015 | Flag of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services [19] | A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw |
![]() | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army) | A red defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw |
![]() | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy) | A dark blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw [20] |
![]() | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air Force) | A light blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | c. 1994 | Flag of the Myanmar Army | A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre |
![]() | Ceremonial Guidon of the Myanmar Army |
Flag | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Infantry and Light Infantry | A red field charged with Bandula badge: a white ancient Burmese helmet crossed by a white sword and a white spear |
![]() | Flag of the Artillery Corps | |
![]() | Flag of the Engineering Corps | |
![]() | Flag of the Signal Corps | |
![]() | Flag of the Armour Corps | |
![]() | Flag of the Medical Corps | |
![]() | Flag of the Corps of Supply and Transport | |
![]() | Flag of the Ordnance Services | |
![]() | Flag of the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering | |
![]() | Flag of the Defence Industries | |
![]() | Flag of the Security Printing Works | |
![]() | Flag of the Recovery and Resettlement Units | |
![]() | Flag of the Border Guard Forces [21] | Recently, Tatmadaw ordered to change the arm patch of Border Guard and People’s militia. [22] |
Infantry Battalions | |
![]() | Flag of the No. (14) Infantry Battalion |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1994 | Naval ensign of the Myanmar Navy | White field with a red canton charged with a white five-pointed star and a blue anchor in the lower fly [20] |
![]() | Commissioning pennant of the Myanmar Navy |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | c. 2010s | Air force ensign of the Myanmar Air Force | A seagull field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly |
Flag | Date | 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 | |
![]() | Ensign of the Myanmar Coast Guard | White field with a blue canton charged with a white five-pointed star and two blue anchor crossed in the lower fly [23] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Ministry of Education | ||
![]() | Flag of the Ministry of Defence [24] | A red field charged with logo of Tatmadaw | |
![]() | Flag of the Ministry of Home Affairs [25] | A horizontal triband of blue, yellow and green; charged with a black text of Burmese word for "Home Affairs" (ပြည်ထဲရေး) on the yellow band. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1956 | Sasana Flag, the flag of Buddhism in Myanmar | Vertical bands of blue, yellow, red, white, light pink and the vertical band of the combination of these five colours' rectangular bands. [26] |
![]() | A variant using pink in place of light pink | ||
![]() | 1954 | Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Islamic Religious Affairs Council | A red field defaced with a green rectangular canton with the Takbir in the upper hoist [27] |
![]() | Flag of the Young Men's Buddhist Association | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a yellow circle at the centre; a green Swastika on that circle and each of the four red alphabets — "Y", "M", "B", "A" — inside each blank between the arms of Swastika [28] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 2021 | Three-finger salute flag | A red field charged with a white three-finger salute symbol. Flown in opposition against the 1st February Coup |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | c. 1300s – c. 1500s | Flag used in the Hanthawaddy Kingdom | A green field with a golden hamsa in the centre |
![]() | c. 1510s – 1752 | National flag of the Second Burmese Empire under the Taungoo Dynasty | A golden field charged with a black peacock |
![]() | c. 1752 – 1885 | National flag of the Third Burmese Empire under the Konbaung Dynasty | A swallowtail with white field charged with a green peacock biting a flower branch on a red disk (the sun) in the centre of the field [29] [30] [31] [32] |
![]() | 1824 – 1942; | Union Flag of The United Kingdom used as the State flag of British Burma | |
1945 – 4 January 1948 [33] | |||
![]() | 6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941; [34] | National Flag of British Burma | British Blue Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Badge of Burma: a peacock on a golden disk |
1945 – 3 January 1948 | |||
![]() | 30 March 1941 – 1942 [34] | National Flag of British Burma | Union Jack removed and the badge moved to centre |
![]() | 1942–1943 | Flag of Japanese occupied Burma | |
![]() | 1 August 1943 [34] [35] – 1945 | State flag of the State of Burma | |
![]() | 1943–1945 | Stylized variant flag of the State of Burma | |
![]() Vertical: [36] ![]() | 4 January 1948 [33] – 3 January 1974 [37] | Former National Flag of the Union of Burma | A red field defaced with a blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist, and a big white star with five small white stars inside the rays of it in the canton. [36] |
![]() | 3 January 1974 [37] –21 October 2010 [1] | Former State Flag of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974–1988), later, the Union of Myanmar (1988–2010) | The background is red field with blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist. Inside the blue canton are the 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear. [38] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1753–1885 | Royal Standard used in royal occasions by the Konbaung Dynasty [39] | A red peacock sewn on a white silk flag |
![]() | 1886–1937 | Standard of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [40] | Union Jack with the Order of the Star of India in the centre, surmounted by the Tudor Crown. |
![]() | 1939–1948 | Standard of the Governor of Burma [40] | Union Jack with the Badge of Burma in the centre |
![]() | 1952–1974 | Former Government Ensign of the Union of Burma [41] | A blue field with the national flag in the canton. |
![]() | 1948–1962 | Former presidential flag of the Union of Burma [41] [40] | An orange field background charged with a peacock in the centre |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1949 | Flag hoisted at the Embassy of the Union of Burma to the Republic of China in Nanjing [42] | National flag with Palace city wall on lower fly |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1886–1937 | Civil Ensign of the British Raj used after the Annexation of Burma in 1886 | British Red Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Order of the Star of India. |
![]() | 1952–1974 | Former Civil Ensign of the Union of Burma [41] | |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former Civil Ensign of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma, later, the Union of Myanmar |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1948–2010 | Former Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services [43] | with a triband of light blue, red and dark blue, and a large golden five-pointed star at the centre [44] [45] |
![]() | 2010–2014 | Former Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services [40] | |
![]() | 1948 – c. 1994 | Former Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army [41] | Guidon with red-blue-red triband and a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe |
![]() | 1948–1974 | Former Flag of the Chief of Air Staff [43] | Guidon with stratos background charged with Air Force's roundel |
Flag | Name (in Burmese) | Description |
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သတ္တရုဇေယ | Golden field charged with a green disk with a latte rabbit on it, at the centre | |
မဟာသတ္တရု | Latte field charged with a bīlūḥ holding up both hands with weapons | |
![]() | သတ္တရုဇမ္ဗူ | A horizontal triband of red, latte and red; with a chinthe in the latte band. |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်လက်ဝဲ | A horizontal triband of red, blue and red |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်ဝရဇိန် | A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်တမွတ်စံ | A horizontal triband of red, mallard and red |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်မှန်ကင်း | A horizontal triband of red, william and red |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်နတ် | A horizontal triband of red, falu and red |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်စက်ထိ | A horizontal triband of yellow, white and yellow |
![]() | ရွှေပြည်တံဆိပ် | A horizontal triband of green, yellow and green |
Flag | Name (in Burmese) | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | သတ္တရုမြဇမ္ဗူ | c. 1784–1885 | War flags of the Burmese Royal Armed Forces [46] | Golden field charged with a red disk with a golden peacock on it, at the centre |
![]() | 1853-1876 | Flag used by European mercenaries from Burmese Royal Artillery | ||
![]() | 1942–1945 | War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma | ||
![]() | 1941 | (First) flag of the Burma Independence Army | A white field with a red peacock in the centre [47] | |
![]() | 1942 | (Second) flag of the Burma Independence Army | A green field with a peacock in the centre and thunderbolts in the corners [48] | |
![]() | သုံးရောင်ခြယ်အလံ | 1942 | (Third) flag of the Burma Independence Army | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a peacock on a white disk at the centre |
![]() | 1942–1945 | Flag of the Burma Defence Army, later, the Burma National Army | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a stylized red peacock at the centre | |
![]() | တော်လှန်ရေးအလံ | 1945 | Flag of the anti-fascist resistance guerrillas and the Burma National Army, later, Patriotic Burmese Forces | A red field with a white five-pointed star in the upper hoist [36] |
![]() | 1948–c. 1994 | Former flag of the Burma Army, later, Myanmar Army | A horizontal triband of red, blue and red, charged with a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1824–1942; | Navy Ensign of Royal Navy, in British Burma | British White Ensign: a white field defaced with the Saint George's Cross, and the Union Jack placed in the canton. |
1945 – 4 January 1948 [33] | |||
![]() | 1886–1937 | Navy Jack of British Indian Navy, used when Burma was a province of British India | British Blue Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Order of the Star of India |
![]() | 1942–1945 | Former Navy Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Burma | |
![]() | 1948–1974 | Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma Navy [41] | A white field defaced with Saint George's Cross and the national flag's canton in the canton |
![]() | 1974–1994 | Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma Navy, later, the Myanmar Navy [49] | A horizontal bicolour, sky blue over navy blue, with a white large five-pointed star at the centre [50] |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1948–1974 | Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force | |
![]() | 1974 – c. 2010 | Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force, later, the Myanmar Air Force [43] | A dodger blue field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Kachin State | A dark blue field charged with mountains |
![]() | 1974–2018 | Former flag of Mon State | A blue field charged with a yellow hamsa in the centre and the text မွန်ပြည်နယ် (meaning "Mon State") underneath it |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Kayah State | A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband; a small blue canton defaced on the red band; inside the canton, 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Ayeyarwady Division | A stylized orange map of Ayeyarwady Region in a white box on top a field of white and blue waves with the text ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း ("Ayeyarwady Division") above the map |
![]() | 2010–2022 | Former flag of Ayeyarwady Division | Seal of Ayeyarwady Region with the text ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Ayeyarwady Region") above on a white field |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Bago Division | A blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်း" ("Bago Division") under the bird |
![]() | 2010 – c. 2019 | Former flag of Bago Region | A blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" ("Bago Region") under the bird |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Magway Division | An orange field with the red text "မကွေးတိုင်း" (meaning "Magway Division") |
2010–2021 | Former flag of Magway Division | A yellow field charged with former seal (2010–2021) | |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Mandalay Division | |
![]() | 2010–2021 | Flag of Mandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field Is also the current Flag |
![]() | 2021–2022 | Former flag of Mandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on blue background |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Sagaing Division | A green field with a yellow Burmese leograph and the yellow text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း" (meaning "Sagaing Division") |
![]() | 2010–2019 | Former flag of Sagaing Region | A red field with a Burmese leograph and the text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" (meaning "Sagaing Region") [51] [52] [53] |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Tanintharyi Division | A dark blue field with the text "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း" (meaning "Tanintharyi Division") |
![]() | 1974–2010 | Former flag of Yangon Division | |
![]() | 2010–2022 | Former flag of Yangon Region |
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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![]() | 2015–2019 | Confederate Farmers Party | |
![]() | 2014–2019 | Kachin Democratic Party my | |
![]() | 2013–2019 | Kachin State Democracy Party | |
![]() | 2010–2014 | Rakhine Nationalities Development Party | |
![]() | 1962–1988 | Burma Socialist Programme Party | |
![]() | 1958–1964 1945–1958 | Union Party Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | |
![]() | 1942–1943 | Poor Man's Party | |
![]() | 1930-1950s | Thakins |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1999–2013 | Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors | |
![]() | 1995–2005 | Shan State National Army | |
![]() | 1985–1996 | Mong Tai Army | |
![]() | 1978–2009 | Karenni National People's Liberation Front | |
![]() | 1964–1975 | Shan State Army | |
![]() | 1960–1996 | Shan United Revolutionary Army |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Proposed in 2006 | Flag proposed for Myanmar at the 2006 Plenary Session of the National Convention | A horizontal tricolour of green, yellow and red, with a white five-pointed star in the canton |
![]() | Proposed in 2019 | The National League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A red field with a blue canton, in which there is a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of 14 small white five-pointed stars |
![]() | Proposed in 2019 | The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A light blue field with a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of eight small white five-pointed stars, with three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red in the hoist |
![]() | Proposed in 2019 | The Zomi Congress for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A light blue field with a white map of Myanmar in the centre surrounded by an orange oval ring |
![]() | Proposed in 2019 | The National Unity Party's proposed flag for Myanmar | A yellow-brown field with a grey oval in the centre surrounded by a black ring and containing a map of Myanmar displaying the individual states and regions of the country in various colours |
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