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Adoption Dates

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Afghanistan

  • Current pattern (Black-Red-Green vertical bars) adopted between September 1928 and January 1929
  • 1929 - Black-Red-Green motif restored after period of disuse
  • circa 1973 - flag modified to eliminate Arabic numerals; replaced and in disuse as of 9 May 1974
  • Black-Red-Green motif restored December 1992 - in disuse during Taliban era
  • Black-Red-Green motif restored 4 January 2004

Åland Islands

  • Flag first hoisted - 3 April 1954
  • proportions standardized - 1992

Albania

  • Flag Adopted 1912 modeled on the flag of Iskander Bey
  • Flag changed with a redesigned double headed eagle - 1920
  • Kingdom of Albania approved a modified flag to include Skanderbeg's Helmet - 3 August 1929
  • New flag proposal submitted to King Zog - 5 August 1929
  • Kingdom of Albania flags formally adopted - 8 August 1929
  • Color of flag background changed - 1934
  • Flag changed by occupying Italian government - 13 April 1939
  • Italian occupying flag formalized in constitution - 3 June 1939
  • Royal decree (Italian) approving flag - 28 September 1939
  • Postwar flag adopted - 1944
  • Socialist star added to flag - 1946
  • 1920 flag readopted - 7 April 1992

Algeria

  • Flag adopted 3 July 1962 - originally a pre-revolutionary flag

American Samoa

  • Flag changed 27 April 1960

Andorra

  • Adopted 1866

Angola

  • Adopted 11 November 1975
  • 27 August 2002 - New flag adopted, not yet ratified

Anguilla

  • Adopted 30 May 1990; First hoisted 30 May 1990

Antigua and Barbuda

  • Adopted 27 February 1997

Armenia

  • Adopted 1918; disuse during Soviet era
  • Reconfirmed by Supreme Council 23 August 1990
  • Adopted by Supreme Council 24 August 1990

Aruba

  • Flag adopted 16 March 1976
  • Flag first hoisted - 18 March 1976
  • Official specifications published - 14 March 1977

Australia

  • First hoisted, 3 September 1901
  • 20 February 1903 - Flag approval announced by King Edward VII
  • Addition of seventh point to Commonwealth star announced 19 December 1908
  • flag confirmed in legislation - 14 April 1954

Austria

  • Legislated 27 April 1984, flag dates to 1230

Azerbaijan

  • Adopted