List of Belgian flags
"Flags of Belgium" redirects here. For the current national flag of Belgium, see
Flag of Belgium.
Flags on the town hall of
Ypres with (left to right) the European, Belgian and Flemish Community flags
This is a list of flags used in Belgium.
National Flag
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 1831–present | Flag of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 13:15 ratio. Technically the national flag, but rarely seen in the officially approved dimensions. |
Sub-national
Regions and Communities
Provinces
Royal Standards
Monarch
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 2013–present | Royal Standard of Philippe I | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner. |
| 1993–present | Royal Standard of Albert II | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner. |
| 1951–1993 | Royal Standard of Baudouin I | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner. |
| 1934–1951 | Royal Standard of Leopold III | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner. |
| 1909–1934 | Royal Standard of Albert I | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the King's cypher in each corner. |
Royal Consort
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 2013–present | Royal Standard of the Queen Mathilde | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner. |
| 1993–present | Royal Standard of the Queen Paola | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner. |
| 1960–2014 | Royal Standard of the Queen Fabiola | A square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms personalised with the Consort's cypher in each corner. |
Ensign
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). |
| 1950–present | Yacht Ensign of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with the royal crown in canton. |
Military
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 1950–present | Flag of the Belgian Army | The Army badge, crowned, on a white field |
| 1950–present | Ensign of the Belgian Air Force | The Air Force roundel on a blue field. |
| 1950–present | 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. |
| 1950–present | Naval Jack of the Belgian Navy | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 1:1 ratio. |
| | Pennant of the Belgian navy | |
Historical
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| 1930-1944 | Flag of the Rexist Party | |
| ? | Flag of the Flemish Movement (Strijdvlag) and Flemish far-right | A yellow lion (design different from the Flemish Community flag) on a yellow field |
| 1918-20 | Flag of Neutral Moresnet | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue. |
| c.1865 | Fanion of the Belgian Legion during the French intervention in Mexico | Tricolour of Mexican Empire, superimposed with the Belgian tricolor to top left. |
| 1830 | Flag of the revolutionary volunteers from Liège, led by Charles Rogier, during the Belgian Revolution | Bicolour of Liège, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow, with the superimposed slogan "Vanquish or Die for Brussels" |
| 1830–1831 | Flag of the Belgian Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red. |
| 1815–1830 | Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands | A tricolor, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue. |
| 1794–1815 | Flag of the French First Republic, later the French First Empire | A tricolor, with three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue. Briefly used by Belgian revolutionaries in 1830. |
| 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, but also of the Republic of Liège | A bicolour, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow. |
| 1781–1786[2] | Flag of the Austrian Netherlands | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria. |
| 15th–18th centuries[3] | Flag of the Habsburg Netherlands and later the Spanish Netherlands | A white flag with a red Cross of Burgundy. |
| 1858 | Royal ensign |
Colonial
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. |
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Names in italics indicate non-sovereign (dependent) territories, disputed states and/or former countries. |