List of Azerbaijani flags

This is a list of flags used in Azerbaijan.

National flag

Flag Date Use Description
1918 (1991)-Flag of the Republic of AzerbaijanThree horizontal stripes, the upper stripe of blue colour, the middle stripe red and the lower one green with a white crescent and eight-pointed star in the middle of the red stripe on both sides of the flag. The proportion of the width to the length is 1 to 2.[1]
1918 (1991)-Flag of Azerbaijan (vertical).

Governmental flags

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

Azerbaijani Armed Forces

Azerbaijani Land Forces

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Azerbaijani Land Forces

Azerbaijani Navy

Flag Date Use Description
1991Ensign of the Azerbaijani NavyAs 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a blue anchor replaces the hammer and sickle, and what used to be a simple light blue bar at the bottom of the flag has been replaced by a wavy sort of pattern.
1991Flag of the Commander in Chief of Azerbaijan Naval Staff
1991Flag of the Commander in Chief of the Azerbaijani Navy
1991Flag of the Commander of a Group of Azerbaijan Navy
1991The flag of the Azerbaijani Coast Guard'A green flag with the flag of the Navy in the canton.
1991Flag of the President of Azerbaijan while on board a ship of the State Border Service
1991Flag of the Chief of the State Border Service - Commander of Border Troops
1991Flag of the Chief of General Staff of the Border Troops
1991Flag of the Commander of a group of vessels
1991Command Pennant of Border Patrol vessels
1991Masthead Pennant of Border Patrol vessels

Azerbaijani Air Force

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

Border Service of Azerbaijan

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

Internal Troops of Azerbaijan

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

Ethnic groups flags

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of Afshar people

Flags of Avars
Flag of Lezgins

Flags of Talysh people

Historical flags

Flag Date Use Description
8th century ADStandard of the Mihranid dynasty
1743–1819Banner of Shaki Khanate
1747–1828Banner of Nakhichevan Khanate
1918Flag of the
Centrocaspian Dictatorship

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

1917Flag of the Musavat Party of Turkic Federalists
1918Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic RepublicSource for the design of the current flag
1918Flag of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
1918–1919Flag of Republic of Aras
1918Flag of the
Baku Commune
Bears the text Бакинскiй Совнаркомь (Bakinskiy Sovnarkom)
1918–1920Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic RepublicSame as current flag
1920Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
1920–1921Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
1921–1922Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
1930s - 1936Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet RepublicLater flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
1937–1940Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
1940–1952Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
1952–1991Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist RepublicLast flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Reverse flagAll flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side.
1937–1940Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicOne 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.
1952–1991Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicLast flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1991-1993Unofficial flag used in Nakhchivan Autonomous RepublicUsed together with the current national flag.
1993Flag of Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic

Azerbaijani people in other countries

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of Iraqi Turkmen

Flags of Iranian Azerbaijanis

References

  1. "Milli Məclis". www.meclis.gov.az.
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