This is a list of flags used in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , a country in western Europe. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Luxembourg .
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1993 - | Flag of Luxembourg (Ratio: 3:5) | The flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and blue. De facto used from 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1993. | |
1972 - 1993 | Flag of Luxembourg (Ratio: 1:2) | The national flag in 1:2 ratio. | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1972 - | Civil Ensign and Civil Air Ensign of Luxembourg | A banner of the coat of arms of Luxembourg. It is made of ten horizontal white and blue stripes with a red lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown over all. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2001 - | Standard of the Grand Duke | An orange flag with the middle coat of arms of the Grand Duke. | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Flag of the Capital city of Luxembourg | |||
Flag of Betzdorf, Luxembourg | |||
Flag of Diekirch |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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800-888 | The Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne | A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers. | |
1242-1443 | Flag of The County and Duchy of Luxemburg | A banner of the coat of arms of Luxembourg. It is made of ten horizontal white and blue stripes with a red lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown over all. | |
1443-1556 | Flag of The Duchy of Burgundy under Philip the Good | A Banner of The Coat of Arms of The Duchy of Burgundy under The House of Valois-Burgundy | |
1556-1684 1698-1700 | Flag of The Seventeen Provinces, The Southern Netherlands and The Spanish Netherlands | A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field. | |
1684-1698 1701-1711 1814-1815 | Flag of The Kingdom of France | A White Field with several Fleur-de-lis. | |
1711-1713 | Flag of The Electorate of Bavaria | A Quartered Banner of Arms. the 1st and 4th quarters, An array of 21 lozenges of blue and white. the 2nd and 3rd quarters are the lion of The Electorate of Palatinate. plus an inescutcheon with a golden orb on a red field in the center. | |
1713-1795 | Flag of The Archduchy of Austria | three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and red. | |
1713-1740 | Flag of The Archduchy of Austria | A yellow field with a black double headed eagle with a crown on top and carrying the tricolored arms of Austria on his chest. | |
1781-1786 | Flag of The Austrian Netherlands | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria. | |
1789-1790 | Flag of The Brabant Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, black and yellow. | |
1795-1814 | Flag of The French First Republic and The First French Empire | A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 3:2). | |
1815-1830 1839-1848 | Flag of The United Kingdom of the Netherlands and The Kingdom of The Netherlands | A horizontal triband of red, white and blue. | |
1830-1831 | Flag of the Belgian Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red. | |
1831-1839 | Flag of The Kingdom of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 2:3 ratio. | |
1848-1914 1918-1940 | Flag of Luxembourg | ||
1914-1918 | Flag of The German Empire used during the occupation of Luxembourg in World War I | A tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom). | |
1940-1945 | Flag of Nazi Germany used during the occupation of Luxembourg in World War II | A red field, with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. Disc and swastika are exactly in the centre. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1556 | Banner of arms of King Charles I | ||
1556 | Banner of arms of Emperor Charles V | ||
1556 | Banner of arms of Emperor Charles V | ||
1556-1580 1668-1684 1698-1700 | Royal Standard or Royal Flag of the House of Habsburg. | ||
1580-1668 | Banner of arms of the House of Austria (with the arms of Portugal). | ||
1580-1668 | Royal Standard or Royal Flag of the House of Habsburg. (Inescutcheon of Portugal in the Royal arms) | ||
1668-1684 1698-1700 | Banner of arms of the House of Austria (from 1668) | ||
1684-1698 1701-1711 | Royal standard of Louis XIV | ||
1804-1814 | Imperial standard of Napoléon I | ||
1814-1815 | Royal Standard of Louis XVIII | ||
1815-1830 1839-1848 | Royal Standard of The Dutch Monarch | ||
1815-1835 | Standard of the Emperor Francis | ||
1848-1866 | Standard of the Emperor Franz Joseph | ||
1914-1918 | German Emperor's Standard |
Luxembourgish euro coins feature three different designs, though they all contain the portrait or effigy of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg. The designs, by Yvette Gastauer-Claire, also contain the 12 stars of the EU flag, the year of imprint and the name of the country in the Luxembourgish language: Lëtzebuerg.
Luxembourg, also called Belgian Luxembourg or West Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia within Belgium. It borders the country of Luxembourg to the east, the French departments of Ardennes, Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle to the south and southwest, and the Walloon provinces of Namur and Liège to the north. Its capital and largest city is Arlon, in the south-east of the province, near the border of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The national flag of Luxembourg consists of three horizontal stripes, red, white and light blue, and can be in 1:2 or 3:5 ratio. It was first used between 1845 and 1848 and officially adopted in 1993. It is informally called in the country, «rout, wäiß, blo».
This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other entities, please see gallery of flags of dependent territories. Each flag is depicted as if the flagpole is positioned on the left of the flag, except for those of Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia which are depicted with the hoist to the right.
The flag of The Gambia is the national flag of The Gambia. It consists of three horizontal red, blue and green bands separated by two thin white lines. Adopted in 1965 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate, it has been the flag of the Republic of the Gambia since the country gained independence that year. It remained unchanged throughout the Gambia's seven-year confederation with Senegal.
Luxembourg competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. The nation has competed at every Olympic games for a century, except the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Luxembourg competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. In partial support of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Luxembourg competed under the Olympic Flag instead of its national flag.
The coat of arms of Luxembourg has its origins in the Middle Ages and was derived from the arms of the Duchy of Limburg, in modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands. In heraldic language, the arms are described as: Barry of ten Argent and Azure, a Lion rampant queue forchée Gules crowned, armed and langued Or.
Luxembourg's National Olympic Committee, the Luxembourg Olympic and Sporting Committee, was founded in 1912 and sent its first team to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
This is a list of international, national and subnational flags used in Europe.
Football Club Progrès Niederkorn is a professional football club based in Niederkorn, Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey team of Luxembourg. It is controlled by the Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Luxembourg is currently ranked 43rd in the IIHF World Rankings and competes at Division II of the IIHF World Championships. They won their first tournament in 2017 at the Division III level.
There are a number of national symbols of Luxembourg, representing Luxembourg or its people in either official or unofficial capacities.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Luxembourg:
Ni Xia Lian is a Chinese-born Luxembourgish table tennis player who has represented Luxembourg in international competitions since 1991. She was born in Shanghai, and resides with her husband, Tommy Danielsson, in Ettelbruck, in central Luxembourg.
Luxembourg participated in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.
Luxembourg competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Luxembourgish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era, with the exception of the sparsely attended 1904 and 1908 Summer Olympics, and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of the worldwide Great Depression.
Luxembourg competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.