List of Azerbaijani flags

Summary

This is a list of flags used in Azerbaijan, both today and in the past.

National flag edit

Flag Date Use Description
  2013–present Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan Horizontal tricolour of bright blue, red, and green, with a white crescent and a centred eight-pointed star
Proportion 1:2[1]

Governmental flags edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1992–present Presidential standard National tricolour with the coat of arms in the center
  2004–present Presidential standard (at sea) Naval ensign with national tricolour and the coat of arms in the center

Azerbaijani Armed Forces edit

Azerbaijani Land Forces edit

Flag Date Use Description
  Flag of the Azerbaijani Land Forces

Azerbaijani Navy edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1991 Ensign of the Azerbaijani Navy As Azerbaijan was formerly a Soviet republic, the naval ensign of Azerbaijan closely mimics the old Soviet equivalent; a star and crescent replaces the red star, a blue anchor replaces the hammer and sickle, and what used to be a simple light blue bar at the bottom of the flag has been replaced by a wavy sort of pattern.
  1991 Flag of the commander in chief of Azerbaijan Naval Staff
  1991 Flag of the commander in chief of the Azerbaijani Navy
  1991 Flag of the commander of a group of Azerbaijan Navy
  1991 The flag of the Azerbaijani Coast Guard A green flag with the flag of the Navy in the canton.
  1991 Flag of the president of Azerbaijan while on board a ship of the State Border Service
  1991 Flag of the chief of the State Border Service - Commander of Border Troops
  1991 Flag of the chief of general staff of the Border Troops
  1991 Flag of the commander of a group of vessels
  1991 Command pennant of Border Patrol vessels
  1991 Masthead pennant of Border Patrol vessels

Azerbaijani Air Force edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1991 Flag of the Azerbaijani Air and Air Defence Force

Border Service of Azerbaijan edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1991 Flag of the Border Troops (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
  1991 Flag of the Border Regiments (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
  1991 Flag of the Border Units (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag

Internal Troops of Azerbaijan edit

Flag Date Use Description
  Flag of the Internal Troops of Azerbaijan
  Flag of the Vashag

Political flags edit

Flag Date Description
  2005-present Democratic Reforms Party

Ethnic groups flags edit

Flag Date Use Description
  Flag of Afshar people
 
 
Flags of Avars
  Flag of Lezgins
 
 
Flags of Talysh people
 
Flag of Karapapakhs

Historical flags edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1136–1225 Flag of the Eldiguzids A blue background with a double headed white-eagle.
  8th century AD Flag of the Mihranids
  1743–1819 Banner of Shaki Khanate
  1747–1828 Banner of Nakhichevan Khanate
  1918 Flag of the
Centrocaspian Dictatorship

Three horizontal stripes, the upper and lower stripes of light blue colour and the middle stripe red.

  1917 Flag of the Musavat Party of Turkic Federalists
  1918 Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Source for the design of the current flag
  1918 Flag of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
  1918–1919 Flag of Republic of Aras
  1918 Flag of the
Baku Commune
Bears the text Бакинскiй Совнаркомь (Bakinskiy Sovnarkom)
  1918–1920 Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Similar to the current flag
  1920 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
  1920–1921 Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
  1921–1922 Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
  1922–1924 Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (TSFSR) Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1922 to 1924
  1924–1927 Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (TSFSR) Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1924 to 1927
  1927–1931 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSFSR) Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1927 to 1931
  1931–1937 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSFSR) Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1931 to 1937
  1930s–1936 Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Later flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
  1937–1940 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
  1940–1952 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
  1952–1991 Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Last flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
    Reverse flag All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side.
  1921–1925 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1937–1939 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic One version of the flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Later versions bore the text "Нахчыван МССР" (Naxçıvan MSSR, meaning Nakhichevan ASSR), placed on the flag of the Azerbaijan SSR of the time, without the Armenian name.
  1939–1940 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1940–1945 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1945–1953 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1956–1978 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1978–1990 Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Last flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  1991–2013 Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan from 1991–2013 Similar to the flag of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and the current flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  1991–1993 Unofficial flag used in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Used together with the current national flag.
  1993 Flag of Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic

Azerbaijanis in other countries edit

Flag Date Use Description
  Flag of Iraqi Turkmen
 
 
Flags of Iranian Azerbaijanis

References edit

  1. ^ "Azərbaycan dövlət rəmzləri". National Assembly (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 6 May 2022.