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List of Belgian flags

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This is a list of flags used in Belgium.

Flags on a Flemish townhall with (left to right) the European, Belgian and Flemish Community flags

Flags on a townhall in Mechelen with (left to right) the flags of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Europe and Mechelen.

The royal standard of King Albert II

Historical flags

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Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1831–present	Civil ensign of Belgium	A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 2:3 ratio.
	1950–present	State ensign of Belgium	A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red defaced by a lion rampant ensigned by a crown, both sable (black), the lion armed and langued gules (red).

Date	Use	Description
1950–present	Flag of the Belgian Army	The Army badge, crowned, on a white field
	Ensign of the Belgian Air Component	The Air Component badge and roundel on a blue field.
	Naval ensign of the Belgian Navy	A yellow saltire on a white field, bordered above and below in red and to the left and right in black, charged on the top with a crown above crossed cannons and on the bottom by a fouled anchor.
	Naval jack of the Belgian Navy	A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 1:1 ratio.
	Pennant of the Belgian Navy
	Standard of the Admiral Benelux

	Adopted	Description
Brussels-Capital Region	2015	Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region
Flemish Community and the Flemish Region	1973	Flag of Flanders
French Community and Walloon Region	1991–present (French Community) 1998–present (Walloon Region)	Flag of Wallonia
German-speaking community	1990	Flag of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

	Adopted	Description
Antwerp	1997
East Flanders	1999
Flemish Brabant	1996
Hainaut
Liège
Limburg	1996
Luxembourg	2018	Azure and white horizontal stripes with the crowned red lion^[1]
Namur
Walloon Brabant	1995	Flag and coat of arms of Walloon Brabant
West Flanders	1997

Flag	Use
	Flag of the Common Community Commission
	Flag of the Flemish Community Commission
	Flag of the French Community Commission

List_of_Belgian_flags

List of Belgian flags

National flag

Ensign

Military

Sub-national

Regions and communities

Provinces

Community commissions in Brussels

Municipalities

Royal standards

Monarch

Historical flags

Brussels

Wallonia

Colonial

Political flags

House flags of Belgian freight companies

Other

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Flag	Date	Use
	1831–1865	Royal standard of Leopold I
	1865–1909	Leopold II
	1909–1934	Albert I
	1934–1951	Leopold III
	1951–1993	Baudouin I
	1993–2013	Albert II
	2013–present	Philippe

Date	Use	Description
800-888^[2]	Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne	A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers.
early 1400s^[2]	Imperial Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor	An Imperial Eagle displayed with a halo sable armed and langued gules
862–1797^[2]	Flag of the County of Flanders	A yellow flag with a black lion in the center.
900–1477^[2]	Flag of the County of Hainaut	A yellow quartered banner with black and red lions.
1183–1794^[2]	Flag of the Duchy of Brabant	A golden lion on a black field.
1482–1714^[2]	Flag of Spanish Netherlands	A white flag with the cross of Burgundy.
1713–1740^[2]	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^[3]	Flag of the Austrian Netherlands	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria.
1789	Flag of the Brabant Revolution	A yellow field bordered with red and black triangles and the brabant lion in the center.
1789–1790	Flag of the Brabant Revolution	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, black and yellow.
~1790s	Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, also of the Republic of Liège	A bicolour, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow.
1830–1831	Flag of the Belgian Revolution	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red.
c. 1865	Fanion of the Belgian Legion during the French intervention in Mexico	Tricolour of the Mexican Empire, superimposed with the Belgian tricolour to top left.
1883–1920	Flag of Neutral Moresnet	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1908–1960	Flag of the Belgian Congo	A blue flag with yellow five-pointed star.
	1936–1960^[4]	Standard of the governor-general of the Belgian Congo	A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red, with a yellow star in the upper left canton on a blue field.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
Current
	2004–present	Flag of the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest)
	1999–present	Flag of the Nation
	1978–present	Flag of the Socialist Party
former
	1978–2004	Flag of the Vlaams Blok
	1949–1983	Flag of the Order of Flemish Militants	Red odal on black background.
	1935–1945	Flag of the Rexist Party
	1933–1944	Flag of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond
	1931–1941	Flag of the Verdinaso
other
		Flemish strijdvlag as adopted by certain parts of the Flemish Movement
		Flag of the Rassemblement Wallonie France
		Flag of the Wallonie Libre

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1895–Present	Compagnie Maritime Belge
	1871–1935	Red Star Line

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1957–present	Unofficial flag of Benelux	A Dutch tricolour superimposed with a rampant lion and black square
	1955–present	Flag of Europe	A circle of 12 5-pointed gold (yellow) stars on a blue field.