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This is the list of flags, banners and vexilloids related to Lebanon for further information, see the Flag of Lebanon.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1995 – Today | Flag of Lebanon | A horizontal triband of red, white (double height) and red; charged with a green Lebanese cedar tree. | |
Flag of Lebanon (vertical) |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1949 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Air Force | a blue field with the air force's emblem in the center. | |
1991 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Armed Forces (front) | the Lebanese tricolor with 4 laurels in each corner and an Arabic script in both sides of the tree. [1] | |
1991 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Armed Forces (back) | a diagonal bicolor of White and red. | |
1945 – 1991 | Flag of the Lebanese Armed Forces | the Lebanese tricolor with an Arabic script in both sides of the tree. [2] | |
1984 – today | Flag of the Republican Guard | A blue field with the guard's emblem in the center. [3] | |
1916 – 1920 | Flag of the Lebanese Troops during WW1 | a White field with a red saltire that extends to the corners of the field and a black tree in the center. [4] | |
1950 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Navy | A White field with the navy's emblem in the center. | |
1950 – today | Naval Jack of Lebanon | the Lebanese tricolor with 2 vertical White bands, each with a red anchor. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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c. 19th-20th century | Druze flag |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2005 – 2016 | Flag of the March 14 Alliance | A red field with a white fist holding a laurel in the center. | |
1890 – today | Flag of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Lebanon | A red field with the emblem in the center. | |
1936 – today | Flag of the Kataeb Party | A ehite field with the tree emblem in the center. | |
1957 – today | Flag of Al-Mourabitoun | A black field with the emblem in the center. [5] | |
1974 – today | Flag of the Amal Movement | A green field with the emblem in the center. | |
1953 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Ba'ath Party | A horizontal triband of black, white and green with a red triangle based on the hoist side. | |
1994 – today | Flag of the Free Patriotic Movement | An orange field with the emblem in the center. | |
1995 – today | Flag of the Future Movement | A blue field with a 7 pointed sun base don the hoist side. | |
1964 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Communist Party | A red field with a white band and the communist symbol in the canton and the green tree inside the white band. | |
2001 – today | Flag of the Lebanese Democratic Party | A vertical bicolor of white and red with the map of the country in green in the center. | |
1973 – today | Flag of the Popular Nasserist Organization | a horizontal triband of red, green and red with the emblem in the center of the green band. | |
1949 – today | Flag of the Progressive Socialist Party | a red field with the emblem in the center. | |
1932 – today | Flag of the Lebanese-Syrian Social Nationalist Party | A black field with the emblem in the center. | |
1960 – today | Flag of the Toilers League | A red field with the emblem in the center. | |
1960 – today | Flag of the Union Party | a vertical triband of black, White and red with a green in the center of the White band. | |
1985 – today | Flag of Hezbollah | The flag depicts a stylized representation of the Arabic words حزب الله (ḥizbu-llāh, meaning "Party of Allah") in Kufic script. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1943 – today | Flag of Deir al-Qamar | A red field with a green cross. [6] | |
1943 – today | Flag of Beirut | A White field with the municipality's arms in the center. |
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