List of Costa Rican flags

This is a list of flags used in Costa Rica. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Costa Rica.

National Flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1998-	State flag and State ensign	The national flag with the National Coat of Arms inside a white circle in the red strip to the left.
	1998-	National flag and Civil ensign	Five strips blue, white, red, white and blue. The red central stripe with double width than other blue and white strips.

Provinces

See: Provinces of Costa Rica

Flag	Administrative division		Adopted	Description
		Alajuela		White flag with the Coat of Arms of Alajuela Province in the center.
		Cartago		Two horizontal strips blue and red.
		Guanacaste		Three horizontal strips blue, white and green, with an inverted red triangle to the left.
		Heredia		Three vertical strips yellow, white and red, with the regional Coat of Arms in the central strip.
		Limón		Three horizontal strips green, blue and white.
		Puntarenas		Two triangles, red (upper left) and green (lower right), crossed by two diagonal joined strips white (lefter) and blue (righter). In the center, a ten-pointed golden star with the cypher "1848" in black characters.
		San José		Blue flag with a five-pointed white star in the center, and bordered with red strips.

Cantons

Historical flags

Date	Use	Description
1541-1821	Burgundy Cross, flag of the Spanish Overseas Territories	A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field.
1638-1707	Flag of England	a white field with a red cross, also known as the St George's Cross.
1707-1787	Flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain	The First version of the Union Jack used in England from 1606 and Scotland from 1707 – the Flags of England and Scotland superimposed.
1785-1821	War ensign of Spain	three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, with the coat of arms. the yellow strip being twice as wide as each red stripe.
1808-1813	Flag of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte (1808-1813).	a white banner with the royal coat of arms under Joseph Bonaparte.
1819-1820	1st Flag of Great Colombia	a tricolour of yellow, blue, and red with the coat of arms.
1820-1821	2nd Flag of Great Colombia	a tricolour of yellow, blue, and red with the coat of arms.
1821	1st Flag of the First Mexican Empire	Three diagonal strips white, green and red with 3 golden stars.
1821-1823	2nd Flag of the First Mexican Empire	Three vertical strips green, white and red, with the Imperial Coat of Arms in the center.
1821-1831	3rd Flag of Great Colombia	a tricolour of yellow, blue, and red with the coat of arms in the center.
1823	First Costa Rican National Flag	Three horizontal strips blue, yellow and blue.
1823-1824	Second Costa Rican National Flag	White field with a six-pointed red star.
1823-1849	Flag of the United Provinces of Central America	Three horizontal strips light blue (upper and lower) and white (central), with the coat of arms in the center.
1824	First flag of the State of Costa Rica (within the United Provinces of Central America)	Same as UPCA flag, with the State Seal in the lower strip.
1824-1838	Second flag of the State of Costa Rica (within the United Provinces of Central America)	Same as UPCA flag, with the State Seal in the lower strip.
1838-1840	Second flag of the State of Costa Rica (within the United Provinces of Central America)	Three horizontal strips white, blue and white, with the State Seal in blue strip.
1840-1842
1842-1848	Third flag of the State of Costa Rica (within the United Provinces of Central America)	Three horizontal strips blue, white and b.ue, with the State Seal in white strip.
1848-1906	First flag after break of UPCA	Same as actual flag, with the National Coat of Arms in the center.
1906-1964	State flag from 1906 to 1964	The number of stars appeared on Coat of Arms was 5 since 1848. In 1906 the style of Coat of Arms was slightly modified, and the one appeared on State Flag was also modified, narrowed and was put into a white oval lied near to the hoist of the flag.
1964-1998	State flag from 1964 to 1998	In 1964 a law was passed by government to increase the numbers of the stars from 5 to 7, to reflect the increase of number of its provinces. In 1998 a decree was passed by government about the design of National Coat of Arms, and according to the decree there should be some smoke ejecting from three volcanoes as current look.

Flag Proposal

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1845

Political flags

Flag	Date	Party	Description
	1994-	Libertarian Movement
	2000-	Citizens' Action Party
	1977-	Social Christian Unity Party
	1995-	Costa Rican Renewal Party
	2005-	National Restoration Party
	1943-	People's Vanguard Party
	1996-	National Integration Party
	2014-	Social Christian Republican Party
	2009-	Patriotic Alliance
	1990-	Agrarian Labour Action Party
	2012-	New Homeland Party^es
	2018-	United We Can
	2002-	National Rescue Party
	1951-	National Liberation Party
	2004-	Broad Front
	2004-	Accessibility without Exclusion
	2012-	Christian Democratic Alliance
	2016-	Liberal Progressive Party
	2012-	New Generation Party
	2019-	New Republic Party
	2012-	Workers' Party
	2002-	Escazu's Progressive Yoke
	1997-	21st Century Curridabat
	2014-	Authentic Limonense Party
	2004-	Cartago Green Party
	1969-	Cartago Agrarian Union Party
	2021-	A Just Costa Rica
	1997-	Party of the Sun
	2020-	Social Democratic Progress Party
		Democratic Nationalist Alliance^es
	1982-2006	Christian National Alliance^es
	1986	Alianza Popular Coalition^es
	1976-1983	Unity Coalition
	1996-2010	Democratic Force
	2005-2006	United Left^es
	2006-2010	Union for Change Party
		National Movement^es
	1997- 2003	New Democratic Party^es
	2005-2010	New Feminist League
	1960s	Popular Democratic Action
	1969-1978	Socialist Action Party^es
	1989-2007	National Agrarian Party^es
	1952-2003	Democratic Party
	1967-1984	Christian Democratic Party^es
	1970s	National Front Party^es
	1982-1998 1998-?	Independent Party^es
	1973-2007	Independent Workers Party^es
	1978-?	Socialist Workers Organization^es
	1972-2007	National Patriotic Party^es
	1972-1984	Democratic Renewal Party^es
	1901-1952	National Republican Party
	1962-1966 1966-1978	National Unification Party
	1970-2007	Partido Unión Generaleña^es
	1948-1958 2005-	National Union Party
	2004-2010	Homeland First Party
	1978-2000s	United People
	1929-2002	Costa Rican Socialist Party^es
	1957-1968	Revolutionary Civic Union

Sources

The Flags of Costa Rica. Flags of the World
National symbols of Chile. Museums of Costa Rica (in Spanish)

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