List of Burmese flags

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

State/Union Flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	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

States

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1986[5]	Flag of Chin State	Hornbill on a branch within a white circle surrounded by 9 white stars atop a blue-red-green horizontal triband
	2010	Flag of Kachin State	Blue circle with white mountains defaced with Manaw poles on a green field
	2010	Flag of Kayah State	A Kinnara centred on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
		Flag of Kayin State	Blue-white-red horizontal triband with a white star inset on top-left of blue band
	8 June 2018[6]	Flag of Mon State	Yellow Hamsa on a red field
		Flag of Rakhine State	Emblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa, on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour
	12 February 1947[7]	Flag of Shan State	White circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband

Regions

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2022	Flag of Ayeyarwady Region	Seal of Ayeyarwady Region on a blue field
	c. 2018	Flag of Bago Region	Female 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.
	2021	Flag of Magway Region	Seal of Magway Region on a yellow field with the text မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Magway Region") above the seal in green.
	2010 (except 2021)	Flag of Mandalay Region	Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field
	30 September 2019 [8]	Flag of Sagaing Region	Seal of Sagaing Region centred on a yellow-blue-red horizontal triband with the text စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Sagaing Region") above the seal within the yellow band.
	2010	Flag of Tanintharyi Region	Naga facing forward with a white star above on a red-blue-green horizontal triband
	2022	Flag of Yangon Region	Inner 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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Naypyidaw Union Territory	Seal of the Naypyidaw Union Territory on a teal-blue field

Self-administered zones and divisions

Self-administered zones

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	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 Zone	Blue-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 Zone	Red circle on a light blue-yellow-green horizontal triband.
	1955	Flag of the Pa'O Self-Administered Zone[12]	White star within a blue canton on a red-green horizontal bicolour

Self-administered divisions

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Wa Self-Administered Division	There is no official flag, the flag of Myanmar is used

Military flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2015	Flag 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]
	2015	Flag 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. 2015	Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army)	A red defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw
	c. 2015	Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy)	A dark blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw[20]
	c. 2015	Flag of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air Force)	A light blue defaced with four golden stars under golden logo of Tatmadaw

Army

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	c. 1994	Flag of the Myanmar Army	A 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

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

Common flags

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 the Defence Industries
	Flag of the Security Printing Works
	Flag of the Recovery and Resettlement Units
	Flag of the Border Guard Forces[21]	Recently, Tatmadaw ordered to change the arm patch of Border Guard and People’s militia.[22]

Battalions

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

Divisions

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

Navy

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1994	Naval ensign of the Myanmar 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 the Myanmar Navy

Air Force

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	c. 2010s	Air force ensign of the Myanmar Air Force	A seagull field defaced with the Union Star in the canton, with the Myanmar Air Force crest to the fly

Law enforcement flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Myanmar Police Force	Three vertical bands of yellow, blue and red with a union star in the middle
		Ensign of the Myanmar 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]

Ministry flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1956	Sasana Flag, the flag of Buddhism 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 the Takbir in the upper hoist[27]
		Flag of the Young Men's Buddhist Association	A 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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2019–present	Mon Unity Party
	2018–present	Arakan Front Party
	2018–present	Lahu Democratic Union
Link to file	2016–present	National Unity Party
	1988–2016
	2015–present	Akha National Development Party
	2015–present	Zo National Regional Development Partymy
Link to file	2014–present	Arakan National Party
	2014–present	Karen National Party
	2014–present	People's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers
Link to file	2013–present	Democracy and Human Rights Party
	1980s
Link to file	2013–present	Lisu National Development Party
	2013–present	Federal Union Party
Link to file	2012–present	Myanmar Farmers Development Party
	2012–present	Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party
	2012–present	United League of Arakan
	2011–present	United Nationalities Federal Council
	2010–present	All Mon Region Democracy Party
	2010–present	Chin National Party
	2010–present	Ethnic National Development Party
Link to file	2010–present	Inn National Development Party
	2010–present	Kaman National Progressive Partymy
	2010–present	Kayin People's Party
	2010–present	Kokang Democracy and Unity Party
Link to file	2010–present	Lahu National Development Party
	2010–present	National Democratic Force
Link to file	2010–present	Peace and Diversity Party
	2010–present	Shan Nationalities Democratic Party
	2010–present	Ta'ang National Party
	2010–present	Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State
	2010–present	Union Solidarity and Development Party
	2010–present	Wa Democratic Party
	2004–present	Arakan National Council
	1996–present	Restoration Council of Shan State
Link to file	1989–present	Arakan League for Democracy
	1989–present	Chin National League for Democracy
	1989–present	United Wa State Party
	1989–present	Wa State
	1988–present	Chin National Front
Link to file	1988–present	Democratic Party
	1988–present	Democratic Party for a New Society
	1988–present	Kachin State National Congress for Democracy
	1988–present	Mon National Party
	1988–present	Mro National Development Party
	1988–present	National League for Democracy
	1992–present	Palaung State Liberation Front
	2024–present	Special Region 1
	1989–present	Eastern Shan State Special Region 4
	1988–present	Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
Link to file	1988–present	Zomi Congress for Democracy
	1985–present	Communist Party of Burma
	1946–1969
	1939–1946
	1971–present	Shan State Progress Party
	1967–present	Arakan Liberation Party
	1958–present	New Mon State Party
	1957–present	Karenni National Progressive Party
	1949–present	Pa-O National Organisation
	1947–present	Karen National Union
	1936–present	All Burma Federation of Student Unions

Other

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2021	Three-finger salute flag	A red field charged with a white three-finger salute symbol. Flown in opposition against the 1st February Coup

Armed groups

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2022–present	Myanmar Royal Dragon Army
	2021–present	Bamar People's Liberation Army
	2021–present	Chin National Defence Force
	2021[citation needed]–present	Karen National Liberation Army
	1949–2021[citation needed]
	2021–present	Karenni Nationalities Defence Force
	2021–present	People's Defence Force
	2021–present	People's Liberation Army
	2021–present	People's Defence Force – Kalay
	2021–present 1982–1998	Rohingya Solidarity Organisation
	2021–present	Student Armed Force
	2020–present	Arakan Rohingya Army
	2016–present	Shanni Nationalities Army
	2013–present	Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
	2020–present	Rohingya Islami Mahaz
	2011–present	Federal Union Army
	2010–present	Arakan Army (Kayin State)
	2009–present	Arakan Army
	1997–present	Zomi Revolutionary Army
	1996–present	Shan State Army – South
	1994–present	National United Party of Arakan
	1994–present	Democratic Karen Buddhist Army and DKBA-5
	1992–present	Ta'ang National Liberation Army
	1989–present	Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
	1989–present	National Democratic Alliance Army
	1989–present	United Wa State Army
	1988–present	All Burma Students' Democratic Front
	1988–present	Chin National Army
	1988–present	Kuki National Army
	1980–present	National Socialist Council of Nagaland
	1968–present	Arakan Liberation Army
	1971–present	Shan State Army – North
	1969–present	Wa National Army
	1961–present	Kachin Independence Army
	1957–present	Karenni Army
	1949–present	Pa-O National Army
	1947–present	Karen National Defence Organisation

Historical flags

National

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	c. 1300s – c. 1500s	Flag used in the Hanthawaddy kingdom	A green field with a golden hamsa in the centre
	c. 1510s – 1752	National flag of the Second Burmese Empire under the Taungoo Dynasty	A golden field charged with a black peacock
	c. 1752 – 1885	National flag of the Third Burmese Empire under the Konbaung Dynasty	A 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 Burma	British 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 Burma	Union Jack removed and the badge moved to centre
	1942–1943	Flag of Japanese occupied Burma
	1 August 1943[34][35] – 1945	State flag of the State of Burma
	1943–1945	Stylized variant flag of the State of Burma
Vertical:[36]	4 January 1948[33] – 3 January 1974[37]	Former National Flag of the Union 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]
	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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1753–1885	Royal Standard used in royal occasions by the Konbaung Dynasty[39]	A red peacock sewn on a white silk flag
	1886–1937	Standard 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.
	1939–1948	Standard of the Governor of Burma[40]	Union Jack with the Badge of Burma in the centre
	1952–1974	Former Government Ensign of the Union 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

Embassy

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1949	Flag 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

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

Military

Commander-in-Chief

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1948–2010	Former 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]
	2010–2014	Former Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[40]
	1948 – c. 1994	Former 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
	1948–1974	Former 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

Flag	Name (in Burmese)	Description
	သတ္တရုဇေယ	Golden field charged with a green disk with a latte rabbit on it, at the centre
	မဟာသတ္တရု	Latte field charged with a bīlūḥ holding up both hands with weapons
	သတ္တရုဇမ္ဗူ	A horizontal triband of red, latte and red; with a chinthe in the latte band.
	ရွှေပြည်လက်ဝဲ	A horizontal triband of red, blue and red
	ရွှေပြည်ဝရဇိန်	A horizontal triband of blue, red and blue
	ရွှေပြည်တမွတ်စံ	A horizontal triband of red, mallard and red
	ရွှေပြည်မှန်ကင်း	A horizontal triband of red, william and red
	ရွှေပြည်နတ်	A horizontal triband of red, falu and red
	ရွှေပြည်စက်ထိ	A horizontal triband of yellow, white and yellow
	ရွှေပြည်တံဆိပ်	A horizontal triband of green, yellow and green

Army

Flag	Name (in Burmese)	Date	Use	Description
	သတ္တရုမြဇမ္ဗူ	c. 1784–1885	War flags of the Burmese Royal Armed Forces[46]	Golden field charged with a red disk with a golden peacock on it, at the centre
		1853-1876	Flag used by European mercenaries from Burmese Royal Artillery
		1942–1945	War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma
		1941	(First) flag of the Burma Independence Army	A white field with a red peacock in the centre [47]
		1942	(Second) flag of the Burma Independence Army	A green field with a peacock in the centre and thunderbolts in the corners [48]
	သုံးရောင်ခြယ်အလံ	1942	(Third) flag of the Burma 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 the Burma Defence Army, later, the Burma 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 the Burma 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

Navy

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1824–1942;	Navy Ensign of Royal Navy, in British Burma	British 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]
	1886–1937	Navy Jack of British Indian Navy, used when Burma was a province of British India	British 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
	1942–1945	Former Navy Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Burma
	1948–1974	Former 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
	1974–1994[49]	Former Naval Ensign of the Union of Burma Navy, later, the Myanmar Navy[50]	A horizontal bicolour, sky blue over navy blue, with a white large five-pointed star at the centre [51]

Air Force

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1948–1974	Former Air Force Ensign of the Burmese Air Force
	1974 – c. 2010	Former 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

States

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

Divisions / Regions

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1974–2010	Former flag of Ayeyarwady Division	A 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
	2010–2022	Former flag of Ayeyarwady Division	Seal of Ayeyarwady Region with the text ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ("Ayeyarwady Region") above on a white field
	1974–2010	Former flag of Bago Division	A blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်း" ("Bago Division") under the bird
	2010 – c. 2019	Former flag of Bago Region	A blue field with a golden hamsa, and the text "ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" ("Bago Region") under the bird
	1974–2010	Former flag of Magway Division	An orange field with the red text "မကွေးတိုင်း" (meaning "Magway Division")
	2010–2021	Former flag of Magway Division	A yellow field charged with former seal (2010–2021)
	1974–2010	Former flag of Mandalay Division
	2010–2021	Flag of Mandalay Region	Seal of Mandalay Region on a red field Is also the current Flag
	2021–2022	Former flag of Mandalay Region	Seal of Mandalay Region on blue background
	1974–2010	Former flag of Sagaing Division	A green field with a yellow Burmese leograph and the yellow text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း" (meaning "Sagaing Division")
	2010–2019	Former flag of Sagaing Region	A red field with a Burmese leograph and the text "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး" (meaning "Sagaing Region") [52][53][54]
	1974–2010	Former flag of Tanintharyi Division	A dark blue field with the text "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း" (meaning "Tanintharyi Division")
	1974–2010	Former flag of Yangon Division
	2010–2022	Former flag of Yangon Region

Political flags

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
	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

Armed groups

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

Former national flag proposals

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	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
	Proposed in 2019	The National 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
	Proposed in 2019	The Shan 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
	Proposed in 2019	The Zomi 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
	Proposed in 2019	The National United Democratic 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

See also

• Myanmar portal