This is a list of flags used inMyanmar (also known asBurma).
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 21 October 2010[1] | State Flag[2] ofRepublic of the Union of Myanmar, also called theUnion Flag[3] | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre |
| Variants | |||
.svg) | Vertical[4] | ||
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1986[5] | Flag ofChin State | Hornbill on a branch within a white circle surrounded by 9 white stars atop a blue-red-green horizontal triband |
 | 2010 | Flag ofKachin State | Blue circle with white mountains defaced withManaw poles on a green field |
 | 2010 | Flag ofKayah State | AKinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband |
 | Flag ofKayin State | Blue-white-red horizontal triband with a white star inset on top-left of blue band | |
.svg) | 8 June 2018[6] | Flag ofMon State | YellowHamsa on a red field |
 | Flag ofRakhine State | Emblem of Rakhine, aShrivatsa, on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour | |
 | 12 February 1947[7] | Flag ofShan State | White circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 2022 | Flag ofAyeyarwady Region | Seal of Ayeyarwady Region on a blue field |
 | c. 2018 | Flag ofBago Region | Femalehamsa perched on a male hamsa within a white circle bordered in green on a dark blue field. The textပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Bago Region") is above the birds. |
 | 2021 | Flag ofMagway Region | Seal of Magway Region on a yellow field with the textမကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Magway Region") above the seal in green. |
.svg) | 2010 (except 2021) | Flag ofMandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field |
.svg) | 30 September 2019[8] | Flag ofSagaing Region | Seal of Sagaing Region centred on a yellow-blue-red horizontal triband with the textစစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Sagaing Region") above the seal within the yellow band. |
 | 2010 | Flag ofTanintharyi Region | Naga facing forward with a white star above on a red-blue-green horizontal triband |
 | 2022 | Flag ofYangon Region | Inner portion of the Seal of Yangon Region centred on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband with the textရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ("Yangon Region Government Group") on a white banner below the seal. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of theNaypyidaw Union Territory | Seal of the Naypyidaw Union Territory on a teal-blue field |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 2017[9] | Flag of theDanu Self-Administered Zone[10][11][12] | Blue over yellow bicolour with a green disc at the centre charged with a white flower |
 | Flag of theKokang Self-Administered Zone | Blue-red-green horizontal triband charged with a white star and 8 white circular rings forming an arc above the star. | |
 | Flag of theNaga Self-Administered Zone[13][12] | White over red bicolour with a green square in the upper hoist charged with two crossed spears and a tribal headdress | |
 | Flag of thePa Laung Self-Administered Zone | Red circle on a light blue-yellow-green horizontal triband. | |
 | 1955 | Flag of thePa'O Self-Administered Zone[12] | White star within a blue canton on a red-green horizontal bicolour |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flag of theWa Self-Administered Division | There is no official flag, the flag of Myanmar is used |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
_of_Myanmar.svg) | Flag of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw)[14][15] | A horizontal triband of red, white and blue; charged with a large yellow five-pointed star at the centre[16] | |
.svg) | Flag of theMinistry of Defence (Myanmar) |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | 2015 | Flag of theCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services[17][18] | A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with five golden stars under golden logo ofTatmadaw[16] |
.svg) | 2015 | Flag of theDeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[19] | A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with four golden stars under golden logo ofTatmadaw |
_flag_of_Myanmar.svg) | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of theCommander-in-Chief (Army) | A red defaced with four golden stars under golden logo ofTatmadaw |
_flag_of_Myanmar.svg) | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of theCommander-in-Chief (Navy) | A dark blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo ofTatmadaw[20] |
_flag_of_Myanmar.svg) | c. 2015 | Flag of the Office of theCommander-in-Chief (Air Force) | A light blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo ofTatmadaw |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | c. 1994 | Flag of theMyanmar Army | A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre |
 | Ceremonial Guidon of theMyanmar Army |
| Flag | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Flag of the Northern Command | |
 | Flag of the North Western Command | |
 | Flag of the North Eastern Command | |
 | Flag of the Eastern Command | |
 | Flag of the Eastern Central Command | |
 | Flag of the Triangle Region Command | |
 | Flag of the Western Command | |
 | Flag of the Naypyitaw Command | |
 | Flag of the Central Command | |
 | Flag of the Southern Command | |
 | Flag of the South Western Command | |
 | Flag of the Yangon Command | |
 | Flag of the South Eastern Command | |
 | Flag of the Coastal Region Command |
| Flag | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Flag of the Infantry and Light Infantry | A red field charged with Bandula badge: a white ancient Burmese helmet crossed by a white sword and a white spear |
 | Flag of the Artillery Corps | |
 | Flag of the Engineering Corps | |
 | Flag of the Signal Corps | |
 | Flag of the Armour Corps | |
 | Flag of the Medical Corps | |
 | Flag of the Corps of Supply and Transport | |
 | Flag of the Ordnance Services | |
 | Flag of the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering | |
 | Flag of theDefence Industries | |
 | Flag of the Security Printing Works | |
 | Flag of the Recovery and Resettlement Units | |
| Flag of theBorder Guard Forces[21] | Recently, Tatmadaw ordered to change the arm patch of Border Guard and People’s militia.[22] |
| Infantry Battalions | |
 | Flag of the No. (14) Infantry Battalion |
| Light Infantry Divisions | |
 | Flag of the No. (11) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (22) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (33) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (44) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (55) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (66) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (77) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (88) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (99) Light Infantry Division |
 | Flag of the No. (101) Light Infantry Division |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1994 | Naval ensign of theMyanmar Navy | White field with a red canton charged with a white five-pointed star and a blue anchor in the lower fly[20] |
 | Commissioning pennant of theMyanmar Navy |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | c. 2010s | Air force ensign of theMyanmar Air Force | A seagull field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of theMyanmar Police Force | Three vertical bands of yellow, blue and red with a union star in the middle | |
 | Ensign of theMyanmar Coast Guard | White field with a blue canton charged with a white five-pointed star and two blue anchor crossed in the lower fly[23] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of theMinistry of Education | ||
| Flag of theMinistry of Defence[24] | A red field charged with logo of Tatmadaw | |
 | Flag of theMinistry of Home Affairs[25] | A horizontal triband of blue, yellow and green; charged with a black text of Burmese word for "Home Affairs" (ပြည်ထဲရေး) on the yellow band. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1956 | Sasana Flag, the flag ofBuddhism in Myanmar | Vertical bands of blue, yellow, red, white, light pink and the vertical band of the combination of these five colours' rectangular bands.[26] |
 | A variant using pink in place of light pink | ||
 | 1954 | Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Islamic Religious Affairs Council | A red field defaced with a green rectangular canton with theTakbir in the upper hoist[27] |
 | Flag of theYoung Men's Buddhist Association | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a yellow circle at the centre; a greenSwastika on that circle and each of the four red alphabets — "Y", "M", "B", "A" — inside each blank between the arms of Swastika[28] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 2021 | Three-finger salute flag | A red field charged with a white three-finger salute symbol. Flown in opposition against the1st February Coup |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | c. 1300s –c. 1500s | Flag used in theHanthawaddy kingdom | A green field with a golden hamsa in the centre |
 | c. 1510s – 1752 | National flag of the Second Burmese Empire under theTaungoo Dynasty | A golden field charged with a black peacock |
.svg) | c. 1752 – 1885 | National flag of the Third Burmese Empire under theKonbaung Dynasty | Aswallowtail with white field charged with a green peacock biting a flower branch on a red disk (the sun) in the centre of the field[29][30][31][32] |
 | 1824 – 1942; | Union Flag of TheUnited Kingdom used as the State flag of British Burma | |
| 1945 – 4 January 1948[33] | |||
.svg) | 6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941;[34] | National Flag ofBritish Burma | BritishBlue Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Badge of Burma: a peacock on a golden disk |
| 1945 – 3 January 1948 | |||
.svg) | 30 March 1941 – 1942[34] | National Flag of British Burma | Union Jack removed and the badge moved to centre |
.svg) | 1942–1943 | Flag of Japanese occupied Burma | |
 | 1 August 1943[34][35] – 1945 | State flag of theState of Burma | |
.svg) | 1943–1945 | Stylized variant flag of theState of Burma | |
.svg) Vertical:[36] .svg) | 4 January 1948[33] – 3 January 1974[37] | Former National Flag of theUnion of Burma | A red field defaced with a blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist, and a big white star with five small white stars inside the rays of it in the canton.[36] |
.svg) | 3 January 1974[37]–21 October 2010[1] | Former State Flag of theSocialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974–1988), later, theUnion of Myanmar (1988–2010) | The background is red field with blue rectangular canton in the upper hoist. Inside the blue canton are the 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear.[38] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | 1753–1885 | Royal Standard used in royal occasions by theKonbaung Dynasty[39] | A red peacock sewn on a white silk flag |
.svg) | 1886–1937 | Standard of theViceroy and Governor-General of India[40] | Union Jack with the Order of the Star of India in the centre, surmounted by the Tudor Crown. |
.svg) | 1939–1948 | Standard of theGovernor of Burma[40] | Union Jack with the Badge of Burma in the centre |
.svg) | 1952–1974 | Former Government Ensign of theUnion of Burma[41] | A blue field with the national flag in the canton. |
 | 1948–1962 | Former presidential flag of the Union of Burma[41][40] | An orange field background charged with a peacock in the centre |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.png) | 1949 | Flag hoisted at the Embassy of the Union of Burma to the Republic of China inNanjing[42] | National flag with Palace city wall on lower fly |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1886–1937 | Civil Ensign of theBritish Raj used after theAnnexation of Burma in 1886 | BritishRed Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with theOrder of the Star of India. |
.svg) | 1952–1974 | Former Civil Ensign of theUnion of Burma[41] | |
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former Civil Ensign of theSocialist Republic of the Union of Burma, later, theUnion of Myanmar |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | 1948–2010 | Former Flag of theCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services[43] | with a triband of light blue, red and dark blue, and a large golden five-pointed star at the centre[44][45] |
2.svg) | 2010–2014 | Former Flag of theCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services[40] | |
 | 1948 –c. 1994 | Former Flag of theCommander-in-Chief of the Army[41] | Guidon with red-blue-red triband and a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe |
.png) | 1948–1974 | Former Flag of theChief of Air Staff[43] | Guidon with stratos background charged with Air Force's roundel |
| Flag | Name (inBurmese) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| သတ္တရုဇေယ | Golden field charged with a green disk with a latte rabbit on it, at the centre | |
| မဟာသတ္တရု | Latte field charged with abīlūḥ holding up both hands with weapons | |
.png) | သတ္တရုဇမ္ဗူ | A horizontal triband of red, latte and red; with a chinthe in the latte band. |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်လက်ဝဲ | A horizontal triband of red, blue and red |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်ဝရဇိန် | A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်တမွတ်စံ | A horizontal triband of red, mallard and red |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်မှန်ကင်း | A horizontal triband of red, william and red |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်နတ် | A horizontal triband of red, falu and red |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်စက်ထိ | A horizontal triband of yellow, white and yellow |
.png) | ရွှေပြည်တံဆိပ် | A horizontal triband of green, yellow and green |
| Flag | Name (inBurmese) | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | သတ္တရုမြဇမ္ဗူ | c. 1784–1885 | War flags of theBurmese Royal Armed Forces[46] | Golden field charged with a red disk with a golden peacock on it, at the centre |
.svg) | 1853-1876 | Flag used by European mercenaries from Burmese Royal Artillery | ||
.svg) | 1942–1945 | War flag of theImperial Japanese Army in Burma | ||
 | 1941 | (First) flag of theBurma Independence Army | A white field with a red peacock in the centre[47] | |
.png) | 1942 | (Second) flag of theBurma Independence Army | A green field with a peacock in the centre and thunderbolts in the corners[48] | |
| သုံးရောင်ခြယ်အလံ | 1942 | (Third) flag of theBurma Independence Army | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a peacock on a white disk at the centre |
 | 1942–1945 | Flag of theBurma Defence Army, later, theBurma National Army | A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a stylized red peacock at the centre | |
 | တော်လှန်ရေးအလံ | 1945 | Flag of the anti-fascist resistance guerrillas and theBurma National Army, later,Patriotic Burmese Forces | A red field with a white five-pointed star in the upper hoist[36] |
 | 1948–c. 1994 | Former flag of the Burma Army, later,Myanmar Army | A horizontal triband of red, blue and red, charged with a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1824–1942; | Navy Ensign ofRoyal Navy, inBritish Burma | BritishWhite Ensign: a white field defaced with theSaint George's Cross, and theUnion Jack placed in the canton. |
| 1945 – 4 January 1948[33] | |||
 | 1886–1937 | Navy Jack of British Indian Navy, used when Burma was a province of British India | BritishBlue Ensign with the Union Jack occupying one quarter of the field placed in the canton and defaced with the Order of the Star of India |
.svg) | 1942–1945 | Former Navy Ensign of theImperial Japanese Navy in Burma | |
.svg) | 1948–1974 | Former Naval Ensign of theUnion of Burma Navy[41] | A white field defaced withSaint George's Cross and the national flag's canton in the canton |
.svg) | 1974–1994 | Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma Navy, later, theMyanmar Navy[49] | A horizontal bicolour, sky blue over navy blue, with a white large five-pointed star at the centre[50] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | 1948–1974 | Former Air Force Ensign of theBurmese Air Force | |
 | 1974 –c. 2010 | Former Air Force Ensign of theBurmese Air Force, later, theMyanmar Air Force[43] | A dodger blue field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofKachin State | A dark blue field charged with mountains |
.svg) | 1974–2018 | Former flag ofMon State | A blue field charged with a yellow hamsa in the centre and the textမွန်ပြည်နယ် (meaning "Mon State") underneath it |
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofKayah State | A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband; a small blue canton defaced on the red band; inside the canton, 14 equal-sized white stars surrounding the paddy ears and the gear |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofAyeyarwady Division | A stylized orange map of Ayeyarwady Region in a white box on top a field of white and blue waves with the textဧရာဝတီတိုင်း ("Ayeyarwady Division") above the map |
.svg) | 2010–2022 | Former flag ofAyeyarwady Division | Seal of Ayeyarwady Region with the textဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Ayeyarwady Region") above on a white field |
 | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofBago Division | A blue field with a goldenhamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်း" ("Bago Division") under the bird |
 | 2010 –c. 2019 | Former flag ofBago Region | A blue field with a goldenhamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" ("Bago Region") under the bird |
 | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofMagway Division | An orange field with the red text "မကွေးတိုင်း" (meaning "Magway Division") |
| 2010–2021 | Former flag ofMagway Division | A yellow field charged with former seal (2010–2021) | |
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofMandalay Division | |
| 2010–2021 | Flag ofMandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field Is also the current Flag |
 | 2021–2022 | Former flag ofMandalay Region | Seal of Mandalay Region on blue background |
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofSagaing Division | A green field with a yellowBurmese leograph and the yellow text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း" (meaning "Sagaing Division") |
.svg) | 2010–2019 | Former flag ofSagaing Region | A red field with aBurmese leograph and the text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" (meaning "Sagaing Region")[51][52][53] |
.svg) | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofTanintharyi Division | A dark blue field with the text "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း" (meaning "Tanintharyi Division") |
 | 1974–2010 | Former flag ofYangon Division | |
.svg) | 2010–2022 | Former flag ofYangon Region |
| Flag | Date | Party | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 2015–2019 | Confederate Farmers Party | |
 | 2014–2019 | Kachin Democratic Partymy | |
 | 2013–2019 | Kachin State Democracy Party | |
 | 2010–2014 | Rakhine Nationalities Development Party | |
.svg) | 1962–1988 | Burma Socialist Programme Party | |
| 1958–1964 1945–1958 | Union Party Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | |
 | 1942–1943 | Poor Man's Party | |
 | 1930-1950s | Thakins |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1999–2013 | Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors | |
 | 1995–2005 | Shan State National Army | |
 | 1985–1996 | Mong Tai Army | |
 | 1978–2009 | Karenni National People's Liberation Front | |
 | 1964–1975 | Shan State Army | |
 | 1960–1996 | Shan United Revolutionary Army |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
.svg) | Proposed in 2006 | Flag proposed for Myanmar at the 2006 Plenary Session of the National Convention | A horizontal tricolour of green, yellow and red, with a white five-pointed star in the canton |
.svg) | Proposed in 2019 | TheNational League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A red field with a blue canton, in which there is a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of 14 small white five-pointed stars |
%2527s_proposal_2019.svg) | Proposed in 2019 | TheShan Nationalities League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A light blue field with a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of eight small white five-pointed stars, with three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red in the hoist |
%2527s_proposal_2019.svg) | Proposed in 2019 | TheZomi Congress for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar | A light blue field with a white map of Myanmar in the centre surrounded by an orange oval ring |
%2527s_proposal_2019.svg) | Proposed in 2019 | TheNational Unity Party's proposed flag for Myanmar | A yellow-brown field with a grey oval in the centre surrounded by a black ring and containing a map of Myanmar displaying the individual states and regions of the country in various colours |
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