List of flags of Bosnia and Herzegovina

For more information on current and historical national flags, see Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the White Fortress, Sarajevo.

This is a list of flags used in Bosnia and Herzegovina . For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

National flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1998 – present	Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina	A blue field with a wide medium blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top edge of the flag.
	1998 – present	Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (vertical)

Subnational flags

Entities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1995–2007	Former flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	A vertical tricolour of red (for the Bosnian Croats), white, and green (for the Bosniaks), with a coat of arms on the wide central band on which the green arms and golden fleur-de-lys represents the Bosniaks, and the checked shield the Bosnian Croats. The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted against the use of the current flag of the Federation declaring it unconstitutional. [1] On 31 March 2007, the Constitutional Court placed its decision into the "Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina" officially removing the flag and coat of arms of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [2]
	1995 – present	Flag of Republika Srpska	A horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white, very similar to the flag of the Misiones Province in Argentina, reversed flag of Russia, or the flag of Serbia without the coat of arms (with slightly differently coloured shades).

Districts

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1998 – present	Flag of Brčko District	Uses the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Military flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1992 – 1996	Flag of Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	This flag of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted in 1992.
		Flag of Croatian Defence Council
		Flag of Police of Herzeg-Bosnia
	2004 – present	Flag of Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Light blue with the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the canton and the emblem of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the lower fly.

Cantons of the Federation

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1999 –	Flag of Una-Sana Canton	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white and green, charged with the canton’s coat of arms near the hoist.
	2000 –	Flag of Posavina Canton	A horizontal unequal tricolour of red, white and green, charged with the canton’s coat of arms in the centre.
	1999 –	Flag of Tuzla Canton
	2000 –	Flag of Zenica-Doboj Canton	A horizontal unequal tricolour of green, white and red, charged with the canton’s coat of arms in the centre.
	2001 –	Flag of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde	A vertical bicolour of blue and yellow, charged with the canton's coat of arms in the centre.
	2003 –	Flag of Central Bosnia Canton	A horizontal unequal tricolour of red, white and green, charged with the canton's coat of arms in the middle-left of the flag.
	2004 –	Flag of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton
	1996–1998	Flag of West Herzegovina Canton	Deemed unconstitutional by the Federation Constitutional Court in 1997 because "it only represented one group". [3]
	1999 –	Flag of Sarajevo Canton
	1996–1997	Flag of Canton 10	Deemed unconstitutional by the Federation Constitutional Court in 1997 because "it only represented one group". [3]

Former flags of the Cantons of the Federation

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1997–1999	Former Flag of Una-Sana Canton
	1996–2000	Former Flag of Posavina Canton
	1996–1999	Former Flag of Tuzla Canton
	1997–2000	Former Flag of Zenica-Doboj Canton
	1997–2001	Former Flag of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde
	1996–1998	Former Flag of Sarajevo Canton
	1998–1999	Former Flag of Sarajevo Canton

Political flags

Flag	Date	Party	Description
		Alliance of Independent Social Democrats
		Party of Democratic Action
		Alliance of Independent Social Democrats
		Flag of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party
		Democratic Youth Movement
		Democratic People's Union
	until 1990	League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ethnic groups flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Bosniaks (1)	The main national flag of Bosniaks which was used from 1992 to 1995 as the flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The republic remained composed of Bosniaks after the establishment of Republika Srpska and the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
		Flag of Bosniaks (2)	An other flag that represents Bosniaks, but it's not so popular. It has two green lines (symbolizing islam) with a white line in the middle. In the white line there's a crescent moon.(the main symbol of islam)
		Flag of Bosnian Serbs	The flag of the ethnic Bosnian Serbs with the Serbian tricolor (red,blue,white). It's also the flag of Republika Srpska and is the traditional Serbian national flag
		Flag of Bosnian Croats	The flag of the ethnic Bosnian Croats. It's similar to the flag of Croatia with a difference in the emblem. It was also the flag of the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia from 1992 to 1996

Historical national flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
Banate of Bosnia
	c. 1354	Flag of the Bosnian Banate.	Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a white cross pattée in the center.
Kingdom of Bosnia
	1377 - 1463	Royal Flag of Tvrtko I of Bosnia.	A white field with 5 sestiere on the fly and the arms of Bosnia in the center.
Duchy of Saint Sava
	1448 - 1482	Flag of Herzegovina	A red field with 2 white crosses pattée off-centred toward the hoist and 3 sestiere on the fly.
Rama
	1618	Banner used for "Rama" at Ferdinand II's coronation as King of Hungary.	Swallow-tailed, a blue field with a shield in the center.
Ottoman Bosnia
	1831 - 1832	Flag used during the Bosnian uprising against the Ottomans.	During the struggle for Bosnia's autonomy from September 1831 to June 1832, a new Bosnian flag was adopted under the leadership of Husein-Captain Gradašćević. At the beginning of 1832, Bosnia and Herzegovina was freed from Ottoman rule for a short time and independence was declared. The flag used from 1831 to 1832 was green with a yellow moon and a five-pointed star in the middle. The flag began to be used with the beginning of the struggle against the Ottoman authorities on September 14, 1830.
Austro-Hungarian Bosnia
	1878 - 1908	Flag of the Austro-Hungarian-occupied Province of Bosnia	A red and yellow horizontal bicolour with a shield. The Province of Herzegovina used a similar flag but with the colors reversed (a yellow and red bicolour).
	1908 - 1918	Flag of the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia in Yugoslavia
	1944	Flag of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Partisans
	1946 - 1992	Flag of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within Yugoslavia	A red field (symbolizing the national liberation movements) with the Yugoslav flag in the canton.
Independent Bosnia and Herzegovina
	1993 - 1995	Flag of Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia and Republic of Western Bosnia
	1992 - 1998	Flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	A white field with a blue shield bearing six Bosnian Golden Lilies in the centre. It also was and it still is the main Bosniak national flag.

Proposed flags

Further information: Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina § Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1946–1992)

Proposals for the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Proposed, never used	First proposal of a flag for the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 November 1946. [4]	Federal flag of Yugoslavia with an additional five-pointed golden star imposed behind the existing red star, with their rays interchangeably positioned.
	Proposed, used in real life	Second proposal of a flag for the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1947. [4]	Variant of the flag adopted on 31 December 1946 with a much larger Yugoslav canton flag and a margin.

Proposals before Dayton Agreement

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Proposed, never used	Bosnian Tricolor Proposal
		Bosnian Democratic Union Proposal
		Defenders of Sarajevo Proposal

First set of proposals

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Proposed, never used	First alternative in the first set of proposals.	Similar to the flag of the Czech Republic. A green and red horizontal bicolour with a blue triangle in the hoist.
		Second alternative in the first set of proposals.	Similar to the flag of the United Nations. A light blue field with a branch of wheat.
		Third alternative in the first set of proposals.	A blue field with an outline of the map of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Second set of proposals

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Proposed, never used	First alternative in the second set of proposals.	A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 10 gold 5-pointed stars.
		Second alternative in the second set of proposals.	A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina within a circle of 12 gold 5-pointed stars.
		Third alternative in the second set of proposals.	A red, white, and blue diagonal tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches.
		Fourth alternative in the second set of proposals.	A red, white, and blue tricolour with a yellow silhouette map of Bosnia and Herzegovina outlined in green within two green olive branches.

Third set of proposals

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Proposed, used briefly in 1998	First alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals).	Identical to the national flag that was adopted, but with a field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses.
	Proposed, never used	Second alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals).	A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with three gold and two white stripes, interleaved so as to form a rectangle in the centre.
		Third alternative in the third set of proposals (the Westendorp proposals).	A field of light blue that the flag of the United Nations uses with five gold and five white stripes, interleaved so as to form a triangle in the centre.

See also

• Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina – main article on the Bosnian and Herzegovinian national flag
• Coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Flag of Republika Srpska

References

1. "Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - End of 37th plenary session". Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
2. "Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - 38th plenary session - second day". Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
3. "U-11/97". Archived from the original on 19 April 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
4. Heimer, Željko; Jerlagić, Velid-aga (2006). "Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Socialist Yugoslavia)". Flags of the World . Retrieved 10 March 2023.