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List of Burmese flags

This is a list of flags used in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

State/Union Flag

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FlagDateUseDescription
21 October 2010[1]State Flag[2] of Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also called the Union Flag[3]A horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre
Variants
Vertical[4]

Flags of administrative divisions

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See also: c:Flags of subdivisions of Myanmar

States

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FlagDateUseDescription
1986[5]Flag of Chin StateHornbill on a branch within a white circle surrounded by 9 white stars atop a blue-red-green horizontal triband
2010Flag of Kachin StateBlue circle with white mountains defaced with Manaw poles on a green field
2010Flag of Kayah StateA Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
Flag of Kayin StateBlue-white-red horizontal triband with a white star inset on top-left of blue band
8 June 2018[6]Flag of Mon StateYellow Hamsa on a red field
Flag of Rakhine StateEmblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa, on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour
12 February 1947[7]Flag of Shan StateWhite circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband

Regions

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FlagDateUseDescription
2022Flag of Ayeyarwady RegionSeal of Ayeyarwady Region on a blue field
c. 2018Flag of Bago RegionFemale hamsa perched on a male hamsa within a white circle bordered in green on a dark blue field. The text ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Bago Region") is above the birds.
2021Flag of Magway RegionSeal of Magway Region on a yellow field with the text မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Magway Region") above the seal in green.
2022Flag of Mandalay RegionSeal of Mandalay Region on a red field
30 September 2019 [8]Flag of Sagaing RegionSeal of Sagaing Region centred on a yellow-blue-red horizontal triband with the text စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Sagaing Region") above the seal within the yellow band.
2010Flag of Tanintharyi RegionNaga facing forward with a white star above on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
2022Flag of Yangon RegionInner portion of the Seal of Yangon Region centred on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband with the text ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ("Yangon Region Government Group") on a white banner below the seal.

Union territory

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FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Naypyidaw Union TerritorySeal of the Naypyidaw Union Territory on a teal-blue field

Self-administered zones and divisions

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Self-administered zones

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FlagDateUseDescription
2017[9]Flag of the Danu Self-Administered Zone[10][11][12]Blue over yellow bicolour with a green disc at the centre charged with a white flower
Flag of the Kokang Self-Administered ZoneBlue-red-green horizontal triband charged with a white star and 8 white circular rings forming an arc above the star.
Flag of the Naga 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 the Pa Laung Self-Administered ZoneRed circle on a light blue-yellow-green horizontal triband.
1955Flag of the Pa'O Self-Administered Zone[12]White star within a blue canton on a red-green horizontal bicolour

Self-administered divisions

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FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Wa Self-Administered DivisionThere is no official flag, the flag of Myanmar is used

Military flags

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FlagDateUseDescription
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]
Flag of the Ministry of Defence (Myanmar)

Commander-in-Chief

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FlagDateUseDescription
2015Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[17][18]A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with five golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw[16]
2015Flag of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[19]A red, dark blue, light blue horizontal tricolour defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw
c. 2015Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army)A red defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw
c. 2015Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy)A dark blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw[20]
c. 2015Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air Force)A light blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw

Army

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FlagDateUseDescription
c. 1994Flag of the Myanmar ArmyA horizontal triband of blue, red and blue; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre
Ceremonial Guidon of the Myanmar Army

Regional Military Commands

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FlagUseDescription
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

Common flags

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FlagUseDescription
Flag of the Infantry and Light InfantryA red field charged with Bandula badge: a white ancient Burmese helmet crossed by a white sword and a white spear
Flag of the Armour Corps
Flag of the Artillery Corps
Flag of the Signal Corps
Flag of the Engineering Corps
Flag of the Ordnance Services
Flag of the Defence Industries
Flag of the Security Printing Works
Flag of the Recovery and Resettlement Units
Flag of the Border Guard Forces[21]Recently, Tarmadaw ordered to change the arm patch of Border Guard and People’s militia.[22]

Battalions

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Infantry Battalions
Flag of the No. (14) Infantry Battalion

Divisions

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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
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FlagDateUseDescription
1994Naval ensign of the Myanmar NavyWhite field with a red canton charged with a white five-pointed star and a blue anchor in the lower fly [20]
Commissioning pennant of the Myanmar Navy

Air Force

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FlagDateUseDescription
c. 2010sAir force ensign of the Myanmar Air ForceA seagull field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly

Law enforcement flag

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FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Myanmar Police ForceThree vertical bands of yellow, blue and red with a union star in the middle
Ensign of the Myanmar Coast GuardWhite field with a blue canton charged with a white five-pointed star and two blue anchor crossed in the lower fly [23]

Ministry flags

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FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Ministry of Education
Flag of the Ministry of Defence[24]A red field charged with logo of Tatmadaw
Flag of the Ministry 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.

Religious flags

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FlagDateUseDescription
1956Sasana Flag, the flag of Buddhism in MyanmarVertical 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
1954Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Islamic Religious Affairs CouncilA red field defaced with a green rectangular canton with the Takbir in the upper hoist[27]
Flag of the Young Men's Buddhist AssociationA horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a yellow circle at the centre; a green Swastika on that circle and each of the four red alphabets — "Y", "M", "B", "A" — inside each blank between the arms of Swastika [28]

Political flags

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FlagDateUseDescription
2019–presentMon Unity Party
2018–presentArakan Front Party
2018–presentLahu Democratic Union
Link to file2016–presentNational Unity Party
1988–2016
2015–presentAkha National Development Party
2015–presentZo National Regional Development Partymy
Link to file2014–presentArakan National Party
2014–presentKaren National Party
2014–presentPeople's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers
Link to file2013–presentDemocracy and Human Rights Party
1980s
Link to file2013–presentLisu National Development Party
2013–presentFederal Union Party
Link to file2012–presentMyanmar Farmers Development Party
2012–presentTai-Leng Nationalities Development Party
2012–presentUnited League of Arakan
2011–presentUnited Nationalities Federal Council
2010–presentAll Mon Region Democracy Party
2010–presentChin National Party
2010–presentEthnic National Development Party
Link to file2010–presentInn National Development Party
2010–presentKaman National Progressive Partymy
2010–presentKayin People's Party
2010–presentKokang Democracy and Unity Party
Link to file2010–presentLahu National Development Party
2010–presentNational Democratic Force
Link to file2010–presentPeace and Diversity Party
2010–presentShan Nationalities Democratic Party
2010–presentTa'ang National Party
2010–presentUnity and Democracy Party of Kachin State
2010–presentUnion Solidarity and Development Party
2010–presentWa Democratic Party
2004–presentArakan National Council
1996–presentRestoration Council of Shan State
Link to file1989–presentArakan League for Democracy
1989–presentChin National League for Democracy
1989–presentUnited Wa State Party
1989–presentWa State
1988–presentChin National Front
Link to file1988–presentDemocratic Party
1988–presentDemocratic Party for a New Society
1988–presentKachin State National Congress for Democracy
1988–presentMon National Party
1988–presentMro National Development Party
1988–presentNational League for Democracy
1992–presentPalaung State Liberation Front
1988–presentShan Nationalities League for Democracy
Link to file1988–presentZomi Congress for Democracy
1985–presentCommunist Party of Burma
1946–1969
1939–1946
1971–presentShan State Progress Party
1967–presentArakan Liberation Party
1958–presentNew Mon State Party
1957–presentKarenni National Progressive Party
1949–presentPa-O National Organisation
1947–presentKaren National Union
1936–presentAll Burma Federation of Student Unions

Other

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FlagDateUseDescription
2012Rohingya opposition flag
2021Three-finger salute flagA red field charged with a white three-finger salute symbol. Flown in opposition against the 1st February Coup

Armed groups

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FlagDateUseDescription
2022–presentMyanmar Royal Dragon Army
2021–presentBamar People's Liberation Army
2021–presentChin National Defence Force
2021[citation needed]–presentKaren National Liberation Army
1949-2021[citation needed]
2021–presentKarenni Nationalities Defence Force
2021–presentPeople's Defence Force
2021–presentPeople's Liberation Army
2021–presentPeople's Defence Force – Kalay

2021–present
1982–1998		Rohingya Solidarity Organisation
2021–presentStudent Armed Force
2016–presentShanni Nationalities Army
2013–presentArakan Rohingya Salvation Army
2011–presentFederal Union Army
2010–presentArakan Army (Kayin State)
2009–presentArakan Army
1997–presentZomi Revolutionary Army
1996–presentShan State Army – South
1994–presentNational United Party of Arakan
1994–presentDemocratic Karen Buddhist Army and DKBA-5
1992–presentTa'ang National Liberation Army
1989–presentMyanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
1989–presentNational Democratic Alliance Army
1989–presentUnited Wa State Army
1988–presentAll Burma Students' Democratic Front
1988–presentChin National Army
1988–presentKuki National Army
1980–presentNational Socialist Council of Nagaland
1968–presentArakan Liberation Army
1971–presentShan State Army – North
1969–presentWa National Army
1961–presentKachin Independence Army
1957–presentKarenni Army
1949–presentPa-O National Army
1947–presentKaren National Defence Organisation

Historical flags

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National

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FlagDateUseDescription
c. 1300s – c. 1500sFlag used in the Hanthawaddy KingdomA green field with a golden hamsa in the centre
c. 1510s – 1752National flag of the Second Burmese Empire under the Taungoo DynastyA golden field charged with a black peacock
c. 1752 – 1885National flag of the Third Burmese Empire under the Konbaung DynastyA swallowtail 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 The United Kingdom used as the State flag of British Burma
1945 – 4 January 1948[33]
6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941;[34]National Flag of British BurmaBritish Blue 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
30 March 1941 – 1942[34]National Flag of British BurmaUnion Jack removed and the badge moved to centre
1942–1943Flag of Japanese occupied Burma
1 August 1943[34][35] – 1945State flag of the State of Burma
1943–1945Stylized variant flag of the State of Burma


Vertical:[36] 		4 January 1948[33] – 3 January 1974[37]Former National Flag of the Union of BurmaA 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]
3 January 1974[37]–21 October 2010[1]Former State Flag of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974-1988), later, the Union 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]

Governmental

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FlagDateUseDescription
1753–1885Royal Standard used in royal occasions by the Konbaung Dynasty[39]A red peacock sewn on a white silk flag
1886–1937Standard of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India[40]Union Jack with the Order of the Star of India in the centre, surmounted by the Tudor Crown.
1939–1948Standard of the Governor of Burma[40]Union Jack with the Badge of Burma in the centre
1952–1974Former Government Ensign of the Union of Burma[41]A blue field with the national flag in the canton.
1948–1962Former presidential flag of the Union of Burma [41][40]An orange field background charged with a peacock in the centre

Embassy

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FlagDateUseDescription
1949Flag hoisted at the Embassy of the Union of Burma to the Republic of China in Nanjing[42]National flag with Palace city wall on lower fly

Civil

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FlagDateUseDescription
1886–1937Civil Ensign of the British Raj used after the Annexation of Burma in 1886British Red 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.
1952–1974Former Civil Ensign of the Union of Burma[41]
1974–2010Former Civil Ensign of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma, later, the Union of Myanmar

Military

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Commander-in-Chief

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FlagDateUseDescription
1948–2010Former Flag of the Commander-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]
2010–2014Former Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[40]
1948 – c. 1994Former Flag of the Commander-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
1948 – 1974Former Flag of the Chief of Air Staff[43]Guidon with stratos background charged with Air Force's roundel

War flags of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces

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FlagName
(in Burmese)
Description
သတ္တရုဇေယGolden field charged with a green disk with a latte rabbit on it, at the centre
မဟာသတ္တရုLatte field charged with a bīlūḥ holding up both hands with weapons
သတ္တရုဇမ္ဗူA horizontal triband of red, latte and red; with a chinthe in the latte band.
ရွှေပြည်လက်ဝဲA horizontal triband of red, blue and red
ရွှေပြည်ဝရဇိန်A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue
ရွှေပြည်တမွတ်စံA horizontal triband of red, mallard and red
ရွှေပြည်မှန်ကင်းA horizontal triband of red, william and red
ရွှေပြည်နတ်A horizontal triband of red, falu and red
ရွှေပြည်စက်ထိA horizontal triband of yellow, white and yellow
ရွှေပြည်တံဆိပ်A horizontal triband of green, yellow and green

Army

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FlagName
(in Burmese)
DateUseDescription
သတ္တရုမြဇမ္ဗူc. 1784–1885War flags of the Burmese Royal Armed Forces[46]Golden field charged with a red disk with a golden peacock on it, at the centre
1853-1876Flag used by European mercenaries from Burmese Royal Artillery
1942-1945War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma
1941(First) flag of the Burma Independence ArmyA white field with a red peacock in the centre [47]
1942(Second) flag of the Burma Independence ArmyA green field with a peacock in the centre and thunderbolts in the corners [48]
သုံးရောင်ခြယ်အလံ1942(Third) flag of the Burma Independence ArmyA horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a peacock on a white disk at the centre
1942-1945Flag of the Burma Defence Army, later, the Burma National ArmyA horizontal triband of yellow, green and red; charged with a stylized red peacock at the centre
တော်လှန်ရေးအလံ1945Flag of the anti-fascist resistance guerrillas and the Burma National Army, later, Patriotic Burmese ForcesA red field with a white five-pointed star in the upper hoist [36]
1948–c. 1994Former flag of the Burma Army, later, Myanmar ArmyA horizontal triband of red, blue and red, charged with a small white five-pointed star at the centre of the blue stripe
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FlagDateUseDescription
1824–1942;Navy Ensign of Royal Navy, in British BurmaBritish White Ensign: a white field defaced with the Saint George's Cross, and the Union Jack placed in the canton.
1945 – 4 January 1948[33]
1886–1937Navy Jack of British Indian Navy, used when Burma was a province of British IndiaBritish Blue 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
1942–1945Former Navy Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Burma
1948–1974Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma Navy[41]A white field defaced with Saint George's Cross and the national flag's canton in the canton
1974–1994Former Naval Ensign of the
Union of Burma Navy, later, the Myanmar Navy[49]		A horizontal bicolour, sky blue over navy blue, with a white large five-pointed star at the centre [50]

Air Force

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FlagDateUseDescription
1948–1974Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force
1974 – c. 2010Former Air Force Ensign of
the Burmese Air Force, later, the Myanmar Air Force[43]		A dodger blue field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly

Administrative Divisions

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States

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FlagDateUseDescription
1974–2010Former flag of Kachin StateA dark blue field charged with mountains
1974–2018Former flag of Mon StateA blue field charged with a yellow hamsa in the centre and the text မွန်ပြည်နယ် (meaning "Mon State") underneath it
1974–2010Former flag of Kayah StateA 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

Divisions / Regions

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FlagDateUseDescription
1974–2010Former flag of Ayeyarwady DivisionA stylized orange map of Ayeyarwady Region in a white box on top a field of white and blue waves with the text ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း ("Ayeyarwady Division") above the map
2010–2022Former flag of Ayeyarwady DivisionSeal of Ayeyarwady Region with the text ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Ayeyarwady Region") above on a white field
1974–2010Former flag of Bago DivisionA blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်း" ("Bago Division") under the bird
2010 – c. 2019Former flag of Bago RegionA blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" ("Bago Region") under the bird
1974–2010Former flag of Magway DivisionAn orange field with the red text "မကွေးတိုင်း" (meaning "Magway Division")
2010–2021Former flag of Magway DivisionA yellow field charged with former seal (2010-2021)
1974–2010Former flag of Mandalay Division
2010-2021Flag of Mandalay RegionSeal of Mandalay Region on a red field
Is also the current Flag
2021-2022Former flag of Mandalay RegionSeal of Mandalay Region on blue background
1974–2010Former flagof Sagaing DivisionA green field with a yellow Burmese leograph and the yellow text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း" (meaning "Sagaing Division")
2010–2019Former flag of Sagaing RegionA red field with a Burmese leograph and the text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" (meaning "Sagaing Region") [51][52][53]
1974–2010Former flag of Tanintharyi DivisionA dark blue field with the text "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း" (meaning "Tanintharyi Division")
1974–2010Former flag of Yangon Division
2010–2022Former flag of Yangon Region

Political flags

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FlagDatePartyDescription
2015-2019Confederate Farmers Party
2014-2019Kachin Democratic Partymy
2013-2019Kachin State Democracy Party
2010-2014Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
1962-1988Burma Socialist Programme Party
1958-1964
1945-1958		Union Party
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
1942-1943Poor Man's Party
1930-1950sThakins

Armed groups

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FlagDateUseDescription
1999–2013Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors
1995–2005Shan State National Army
1985–1996Mong Tai Army
1978–2009Karenni National People's Liberation Front
1964–1975Shan State Army
1960–1996Shan United Revolutionary Army

Former national flag proposals

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FlagDateUseDescription
Proposed in 2006Flag proposed for Myanmar at the 2006 Plenary Session of the National ConventionA horizontal tricolour of green, yellow and red, with a white five-pointed star in the canton
Proposed in 2019The National League for Democracy's proposed flag for MyanmarA 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
Proposed in 2019The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy's proposed flag for MyanmarA 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
Proposed in 2019The Zomi Congress for Democracy's proposed flag for MyanmarA light blue field with a white map of Myanmar in the centre surrounded by an orange oval ring
Proposed in 2019The National Unity Party's proposed flag for MyanmarA 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

See also

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References

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