Flag Timeline
When were the world's flags adopted? Explore the history of flag design from the oldest banners to the most recently adopted flags.
Showing 107 flags with known adoption dates
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1500s
1700s
1800s
1900s
- 1902
Cuba
- 1902
New Zealand
- 1906
Sweden
- 1911
Portugal
- 1914
Olympic Flag
- 1915
Iceland
- 1915
Morocco
- 1917
Thailand
- 1918
Finland
- 1919
Ireland
- 1919
Poland
- 1925
Panama
- 1928
Jordan
- 1936
Turkey
- 1945
Indonesia
- 1947
India
- 1947
Pakistan
- 1947
United Nations
- 1948
Israel
- 1948
Italy
- 1949
China
- 1949
Germany
- 1949
South Korea
- 1954
Australia
- 1954
Somalia
- 1955
Vietnam
- 1957
Ghana
- 1957
Hungary
- 1958
Guinea
- 1958
Madagascar
- 1959
Chad
- 1959
Ivory Coast
- 1959
Niger
- 1959
Singapore
- 1960
Nigeria
- 1960
Senegal
- 1960
United States
- 1961
Mali
- 1962
Algeria
- 1962
Jamaica
- 1962
Nepal
- 1962
Uganda
- 1963
Kenya
- 1963
Malaysia
- 1964
Palestine
- 1964
Tanzania
- 1965
Canada
- 1965
Maldives
- 1968
Mexico
- 1969
Bhutan
- 1971
Nicaragua
- 1971
United Arab Emirates
- 1972
Bangladesh
- 1972
Sri Lanka
- 1973
Saudi Arabia
- 1975
Cameroon
- 1980
Zimbabwe
- 1981
Spain
- 1983
Mozambique
- 1984
Egypt
- 1989
Romania
- 1990
Croatia
- 1990
Dominica
- 1991
Slovenia
- 1992
Brazil
- 1992
Ukraine
- 1993
Cambodia
- 1993
Russia
- 1993
Slovakia
- 1994
South Africa
- 1995
North Macedonia
- 1996
Ethiopia
- 1996
Seychelles
- 1998
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1998
Philippines
- 1999
Japan
- 1999
Tunisia