Flags on a Flemish townhall with (left to right) the European, Belgian and Flemish Community flags

The royal standard of King Albert II

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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991-2015	Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region	A yellow iris on a blue field.
	2015-present	Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region	A stylized yellow, white and grey iris on a blue field.
	1973-present	Flag of Flanders (the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region)	The Flemish Lion on a yellow field.
	1991-present (French Community) 1998-present (Walloon Region)	Flag of Wallonia (the French Community and Walloon Region)	A red cockerel on a yellow field.
	1990-present	Flag of the German-speaking community	A banner of the community's arms.

Provinces

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1997-present	Flag of Antwerp
	1999-present	Flag of East Flanders
	1996-present	Flag of Flemish Brabant
		Flag of Hainaut
		Flag of Liège
	1996-present	Flag of Limburg
		Flag of Luxembourg	.[1]azure and white horizontal stripes with the crowned red lion
		Flag of Namur
	1995-present	Flag of Walloon Brabant	Sable a lion Or armed and langued Gules chaped Or two roosters Gules.
	1997-present	Flag of West Flanders	Prized in twelve pieces of Azure and Or, heart shield Gules

Community Commissions in Brussels

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Common Community Commission
		Flag of the Flemish Community Commission
		Flag of the French Community Commission

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.
	1993-2013	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).
		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
		Ensign of the Belgian Air Force	The Air Force badge and roundel on a blue field.
		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.
		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
	15th-18th centuries[2]	Flag of the Habsburg Netherlands and later the Spanish Netherlands	A white flag with a red Cross of Burgundy.
	1781-1786[3]	Flag of the Austrian Netherlands	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria.
	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.
	1794-1815	Flag of the French First Republic, later the French First Empire	A tricolour, with three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue. Briefly used by Belgian revolutionaries in 1830.
	1815-1830	Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue.
	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.
	1858	Royal ensign
	c. 1865	Fanion of the Belgian Legion during the French intervention in Mexico	Tricolour of Mexican Empire, superimposed with the Belgian tricolour to top left.
	1918-20	Flag of Neutral Moresnet	A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue.

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.

Other

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1957-present	Unofficial flag of Benelux	A Dutch tricolour superimposed with a rampant lion and black square
	1955-present	Flag of Europe	A circle of 12 5-pointed gold (yellow) stars on a blue field.

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