List of Mexican flags

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The following is a list of flags that are used in the United Mexican States and its predecessor states.

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National flag

FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of Mexico (1821-1823).svg 1821–1823Variant
Bandera del Primer Imperio Mexicano.svg
Flag of Mexico 1823-1864.png 1823–1824
Bandera de la Primera Republica Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.svg 1824–1835
Bandera de la Republica Central Mexicana.svg 1835–1846
Bandera Historica de la Republica Mexicana (1824-1918).svg 1846–1863
Flag of Mexico (1864-1867).svg 1864–1867
Bandera de Mexico (1880-1893).png 1880–1893
Flag of Mexico (1893-1916).svg 1893–1916
Aguila de centenario.png 1910Independence centennial. Ordered by President Porfirio Díaz.
Bandera de Mexico (1880-1914).svg 1910–1911
Bandera de la Tercera Republica Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.svg 1916
Bandera de la Tercera Republica Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.svg 1916–1934
Flag of Mexico (1934-1968, 2).svg 1934–1968Variant
Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).gif
Bandera de la Tercer Republica Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos modelo 1934.svg Official
Bandera de Mexico uso civil.svg 1968–presentCivil useVariant
Flag of Mexico.svg 1975–presentA vertical tricolor of green, white and red with the National Coat of Arms centered on the white band.

Presidential flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Mexican Presidential Standard.svg Unknown–presentPresidential standard of Mexico
Bandera Presidencial Mexico-comandante supremo buques.svg Presidential standard at sea
Bandera Presidencial Mexico-comandante supremo.svg Presidential standard (as supreme commander)

Historical

FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg 1506–1785
Flag of Spain (1785-1873 and 1875-1931).svg 1785–1821Flag used by the Spanish Empire in its territories from 1785 to 1821
Bandera de la Nueva Espana.svg 1521–1821Cross of Burgundy flag used in New Spain from 1521 to 1821
Estandarte de Hidalgo.svg 1810Banner used by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810
Doliente de Hidalgo.png 1811–1812Flag used from 1811 to 1812 by Regimiento de la muerte (Death Regiment) after Hidalgo's death in the Independence War
Bandera y Estandarte de Morelos.svg 1812Flag used in 1812 by José María Morelos at the Independence War
Bandera Nacional de Guerra de Mexico en 1815.svg 1815Insurgents war flag used in 1815

State flags

Municipality flags

Military flags

Annexation

Political flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Current
Bandera del Frente Nationalista de Mexico.jpg 2006–present Nationalist Front of Mexico
Bandera de la Union Nacional Sinarquista.svg 1937–present National Synarchist Union
Mx cocei.gif Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus
Former
Flag of Partido Liberal Mexicano.svg 1905-1918 Mexican Liberal Party
Other
Flag of the EZLN.svg 1994–present Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Flag of the Popular Revolutionary Democratic Party.svg
Mx-epr.gif
1996–present Popular Revolutionary Army
Logo de las CARI-PGG.png 2009–2014 Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution
Camisas Rojas flag.png 1931-1935 Red Shirts
Simbolo del ARM un Chimalli con un Macahuitl.jpg 1933-1936 Revolutionary Mexicanist Action
Mexico Flag Cristeros.svg 1926-1929Flag used by the Cristeros during the Cristero War

Native American flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Bandera Maya Peninsular.svg Yucatec Maya people
Bandera mazahua.png Mazahua people
Banderaayuukmixemf.svg Mixe people
O'odham unofficial flag.svg Pima people
Bandera purepecha.png Purépecha people
Bandera raramuri.svg Rarámuri people
Bandera de la Nacion Comcaac.svg Seri people
Bandera papago (o'odham).jpg Tohono o'odham people
Flag of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.svg Yaqui people
Bandera nahua o mexica.png Nahuas
Flag of the Mayo People.svg Mayo people
Flag of the Mayan People.svg Tzotzil people
Flag of the Zapotec Peoples.svg Zapotec peoples

Other flags

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