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The following is a list of flags that are used in the United Mexican States and its predecessor states.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1821–1823 | Variant | |
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![]() | 1823–1824 | ||
![]() | 1824–1835 | ||
![]() | 1835–1846 | ||
![]() | 1846–1863 | ||
![]() | 1864–1867 | ||
![]() | 1880–1893 | ||
![]() | 1893–1916 | ||
![]() | 1910 | Independence centennial. Ordered by President Porfirio Díaz. | |
![]() | 1910–1911 | ||
![]() | 1916 | ||
![]() | 1916–1934 | ||
![]() | 1934–1968 | Variant | |
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![]() | Official | ||
![]() | 1968–present | Civil use | Variant |
![]() | 1968–present | A vertical tricolor of green, white and red with the National Coat of Arms centered on the white band. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Unknown–present | Presidential standard of Mexico | |
![]() | Presidential standard at sea | ||
![]() | Presidential standard (as supreme commander) |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1506–1785 | ||
![]() | 1785–1821 | Flag used by the Spanish Empire in its territories from 1785 to 1821 | |
![]() | 1521–1821 | Cross of Burgundy flag used in New Spain from 1521 to 1821 | |
![]() | 1810 | Banner used by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810 | |
![]() | 1811–1812 | Flag used from 1811 to 1812 by Regimiento de la muerte (Death Regiment) after Hidalgo's death in the Independence War | |
![]() | 1812 | Flag used in 1812 by José María Morelos at the Independence War | |
![]() | 1815 | Insurgents war flag used in 1815 |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Current | |||
![]() | 2006–present | Nationalist Front of Mexico | |
![]() | 1937–present | National Synarchist Union | |
![]() | Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus | ||
Former | |||
![]() | 1905-1918 | Mexican Liberal Party | |
Other | |||
![]() | 1994–present | Zapatista Army of National Liberation | |
![]() ![]() | 1996–present | Popular Revolutionary Army | |
![]() | 2009–2014 | Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution | |
![]() | 1931-1935 | Red Shirts | |
![]() | 1933-1936 | Revolutionary Mexicanist Action | |
![]() | 1926-1929 | Flag used by the Cristeros during the Cristero War |
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