Index of Unidentified Flags or Ensigns

Enquiries about unknown flags

Last modified: 2026-04-04 by zachary harden
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Policy for submissions and enquiries: Since Flags of the World encourages open discussion of flag related issues, we encourage those with flag identification inquiries to submit them to this website. We will try and identify and answer legitimate questions when submitted with the following information:

1. An image of the unknown flag.
2. A brief description of the flag, where it was located, and any other known information pertinent to its history.
3. The submitter´s actual name is appreciated, not a pseudonym. All discussions on FOTW are held in an open atmosphere, and since our own guidelines say, we as members should always give our names, we would appreciate those making enquiries do the same.

We use the following key to classify each of these Unknown Flags or Ensigns (UFE):

Identification Key:

= Positive ID (Positive Identification)
= Tentative ID (Tentative Identification)
= Some Speculation

1. Top of this page - Index of Unidentified Flags or Ensigns
2. Unidentified flags submitted in 2003 or earlier
3. Unidentified flags submitted in 2004
4. Unidentified flags submitted in 2005
5. Unidentified flags submitted in 2006
6. Unidentified flags submitted in 2007
7. Unidentified flags submitted in 2008
8. Unidentified flags submitted in 2009
9. Unidentified flags submitted in 2010
10. Unidentified flags submitted in 2011
11. Unidentified flags submitted in 2012
12. Unidentified flags submitted in 2013
13. Unidentified flags submitted in 2014
14. Unidentified flags submitted in 2015
15. Unidentified flags submitted in 2016
16. Unidentified flags submitted in 2017
17. Unidentified flags submitted in 2018
18. Unidentified flags submitted in 2019
19. Unidentified flags submitted in 2020
20. Unidentified flags submitted in 2021
21. Unidentified flags submitted in 2022
22. Unidentified flags submitted in 2023
23. Unidentified flags submitted in 2024
24. Unidentified flags submitted in 2025
25. Unidentified flags submitted in 2026

Please take a look and let's get some more of these identified! Also, be aware that the discussion about UFE flags is on-going. Pages can change weekly and enquires could still be under discussion with new information discovered years after originally posted.

Other Unidentified Flags on FOTW

Scattered throughout our website are many other unidentified flags, where places of origin are known, but they remain a mystery. Some only have text descriptions, without supporting images.   Here is a partial list if you really want to test yourself!

• Armenia
• Breton
• Bavaria
• Buriatia - spotted in Spain.
• China
• Chile
• Ecuador
• English - Tierra del Fuego (1859)
• Unidentified Fictional Flags used in Movies
• Non-Fictional Flags used in Movies
• Discussions about Unidentified Flags Appearing in Movies
• France
• Germany
• Ghana - seen at Ashanti event.
• Guinea Bissau - probably PAIGC Party related.
• Hamburg
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Liberia - variant of the Liberian presidential flag.
• Lebanon
• Malawi
• Morocco - royal standard?
Movies:
• Movie Flags - Discussions about Unidentified Flags in Movies.
• the Rainbow Warrior - Greenpeace movie flag.
• The neo-Nazis
• The Netherlands
• Portugal - unknown naval flag aboard PNS Sagres.
• Pakistan
• Qatar
• Rhine Republic
• Soviet Union
• the Soviet military
• the Teutonic Order
Spain:
• Spain - reported in 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' 1771.
• Spain - infantry regiment colours c1600.
• Spain - from Don Juan de Borbón's office in Estoril.
• Spain - unit colours deployed in Mexico c1823.
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• Stamps
• Ukraine
• Vietnam

Please let us know if you can identify any of these and let the page editor know. We would like to get some more of these identified!