This is a list of flags which are used in Kazakhstan and flags which were used in history.
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1992–present | Flag of Kazakhstan |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1991–2013 | Standard of the president of Kazakhstan (1991-2013) | |
 | 2013–present | Standard of the president of Kazakhstan |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | War flag of Kazakhstan Armed Forces | ||
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan Army | Similar to the national flag without the ornamental pattern, and the addition of a red star in the canton. | |
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan Air Force | ||
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan Air Defense Forces | ||
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan Airborne Troops | ||
 | Flag of the Internal Troops of Kazakhstan | ||
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan National Guard | ||
 | Flag of the Kazakh Border Service | ||
 | Flag of the Ministry of Emergency Situations | ||
 | Flag of the Foreign Intelligence Service |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Naval ensign of the Kazakh Naval Force | ||
 | Naval jack of the Kazakh Naval Force | ||
 | Government Ensign of Kazakhstan | ||
 | Border Service Ensign of Kazakhstan |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Standard of the Minister of National Defense |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of the Kazakhstan Customs Bureau | ||
| Flag of the Kazakhstan Tax Service |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link to file | 1992–present | Flag of the Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan |
Cities with special status
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of Almaty | ||
 | Flag of Astana | ||
 | Flag of Baikonur |
Regions
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of Almaty Region | ||
 | Flag of Karaganda Region |
Districts
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of Akkol District | ||
 | Flag of Medeu District | ||
 | Flag of Tarbagatay District | ||
 | Flag of Uzunkol District |
Cities/Towns
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of Aksu | ||
 | Flag of Aktau | ||
 | Flag of Aktobe | ||
 | Flag of Atyrau | ||
 | Flag of Kapchagay | ||
 | Flag of Karaganda | ||
 | Flag of Kostanay | ||
 | Flag of Pavlodar | ||
 | Flag of Oskemen | ||
 | Flag of Taldıqorğan | ||
 | Flag of Tekeli | ||
 | Flag of Temirtau | ||
 | Flag of Zhetikara |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 14th-16th century | Flag of the Golden Horde | |
 | 1465–1822 | Family Banners of the Kazakh Khanate | 2 pointed banners with a golden border with the image of tamga (clan seal) in the center. each banner is in white, blue and red color respectively. |
 | 1465–1822 | Alleged flag of the Kazakh Khanate | |
 | 1916 | Flag of Amankeldı İmanov's rebels | |
 | 1917–1920 | Flag of the Alash Autonomy | This flag consisted of green, red and yellow horizontal stripes. Green represents the country's loyalty to Islam, red represents the bloodshed defending the country and yellow represents the wide Kazakh steppe as well as freedom |
 | 1917-1920 | 2nd version of the flag of the Alash Autonomy | |
 | 1920-1936 | Flag of the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic | |
 | 1937–1940 | Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | |
 | 1940–1953 | Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | |
 | 1953–1992 | Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| | 1991–1992 | Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan | |
 | 1953–1992 | Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh SSR (reversed) | |
| | 1992–present | Current national flag |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1991 | Proposal 1 | |
 | Proposal 2 | ||
 | Proposal 3 | ||
 | Proposal 4 | ||
 | Proposal 5 | ||
 | Proposal 6 | ||
 | Proposal 7 | ||
 | Proposal 8 | ||
| Flag | Date | Party | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current | |||
| Link to file | 2006–present | Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan | |
 | 1991–present | Azat Republican Party of Kazakhstan | |
 | 1990–present | Alash National Freedom Party | |
| Former | |||
 | 1990s–2015 | Communist Party of Kazakhstan | They started using a version of the hammer and sickle very similar to the emblem of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| | 1990s | Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| Link to file | 2003-2006 | Asar | |
| Link to file | 2004-2013 | Democratic Party Adilet | |
 | 1917-1920 | Alash | |
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Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a small part in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea. Its capital is Astana, while the largest city and leading cultural and commercial hub is Almaty. Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country by land area and the largest landlocked country. It has a population of 20 million and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre. Ethnic Kazakhs constitute a majority, while ethnic Russians form a significant minority. Officially secular, Kazakhstan is a Muslim-majority country, although ethnic Russians in the country form a sizeable Christian community.
Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan.
Almaty, formerly known as Alma-Ata, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of over two million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936, while the country was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union, then from 1936 to 1991, a union republic and finally from 1991, an independent state. In 1997, the government relocated the capital to Akmola.
Atyrau, known until 1991 as Guryev, is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, 2,700 kilometres west of Almaty and 351 kilometres east of the Russian city of Astrakhan.
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The flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the Kazakh government on 24 January 1953. The flag resembles the flag of the Soviet Union in defaced form with a 2/9 horizontal blue (azure) bar in the lower part of the flag and the hammer and sickle in the near centre.
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