The official FOTW flag was designed by Mark Sensen. Click
on the flag to view its history and meaning. This waving flag was drawn by
Pascal Gross.
FOTW pages in Focus
(Vexillology Highlights)
In May 2024 Minnesota became the most recent
state to change its flag.
The 2024 NAVA Meeting will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota,
on 20-22 September.
ICV 30 - The next
International Congress of Vexillology will be held in Beijing, China, 12-19 August 2024.
FOTW Random Page Generator
(Selects a random page for you to explore)
Useful and Interesting Flag Links
(Part of the FOTW website)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Disclaimers/Copyright Rules
- FOTW Mirror Sites
- Unidentified Flags & Ensigns
- Colouring Book
- Buying Flags
- Flags on Stamps
- Flag Flying Days
- Other flag sites
- Memorial Pages
- Meet the Editors and Artists
- History of Flags of the World
- Vexillologist of the Year
- Good Flag Designs
FOTW Vexillological References:
(Part of the FOTW website)
Other Flag Related Sites:
(Not part of the FOTW website)
- Vexilla Mundi
- World Flag Database
- Cyberflag
- Flaggenlexikon
- Bandiere (Italian)
- Personal Flags of Vexillologists
- Historical Flags of Our Ancestors
- MiniFlags
- The Flag Chart
- War Flags Through the Ages
- All Waving Flags
- Guidance for Country Code Flags
- FIAV Website
- Tous les drapeaux (French)
- Vexillographia (Russian & English)
- Heraldry of the World
- Medals of the World
- National Anthem Information
Facebook:
- FOTW on Facebook
- Flags and Vexillology
- The Vexillological Historian
- Flags and Emblems Worldwide 2
- Vexilolognet
FOTW (Flags of the World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini and others devoted to the study of vexillology in 1994. Since then the site has been constantly fed with news and images posted to the FOTW mailing list and with other contributions from interested readers and visitors. Flags of the World is produced and maintained by an Editorial Staff of unpaid volunteers and the contents of these pages are offered freely to the Internet community. Accessing this site implies an acceptance of the following: disclaimers and copyright rules. See also our page about the history of FOTW.
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Welcome to Flags of the World
(Including National, State, Municipal, Organizational, and Historical Flags and Ensigns and more…)
Flags of the World (FOTW), founded in 1994, is the Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 84,000 pages about flags and view more than 199,000 images of flags of countries, organizations, states, territories, districts and cities, both past and present.
Searching for Flags on this Website
There are many ways to find flags on this website. Choosing “Index by Country” will take you straight to the country’s page, once there you will find pathways to the national, state, municipal, military, historical, and cultural flags and ensigns of the country. Choosing “Index by Subject” will do the same, but in a more limited manner. Choosing “Search Site by a Topic or Subject” will search the whole FOTW website looking for pages that have information that matches your search criteria. This last method will gather the most information for you. For those more graphic in nature, you can use the “clickable map” method to find your flag. In case you don’t know the origin of a flag you can try using off-site identifiers such as Ed Mooney’s The Flag Wizard or Ivan Sarajčić’s The Flag Identifier.
Site Indexed by Country
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Site Indexed by Subject
(Use this Dropdown Menu to Navigate to Lists by Subject}
Search Site by Topic or Subject
(Use the Google Search Engine to search FOTW)
Search Site by Clickable Maps
(Click on this Map of the World to go to the area you want to explore)
Copyright: FOTW world map by
Mark Sensen, based on material from
Virtual Tourist
and boundaries’ data by Giuseppe Bottasini.
If you wish to reuse them on your website, read our
copyright rules.
Other Search Methods
- Pages reached through the map index
- Index Page for vexillological (non-national) topics
- International Organizations
- Pages ordered by Title
- Search this site by keywords
- Search using the FOTW Search Engine Page
- Pages ordered by date last updated
Do you want to update or build your own copy of this site? Check build your own local copy or mirror of FOTW website.
FOTW Mailing List
The Flags of the World Mailing List is the official Mailing List of the Flags of the World website. You can subscribe to the list by entering your email address:
Call for Editors
Interested in helping maintain this site? Pages are edited by volunteer editors — qualifications include a keen interest in flags and a willingness to learn html editing. Graphics (flag images) require a willingness to work with graphics programs.
Contact the director for further information.
FOTW and FIAV
FOTW has been a full member of the Fédération internationale
des associations vexillologiques (International Federation of
Vexillological Associations), FIAV, since 2001.
FIAV is an international federation consisting of 52 regional, national,
and multinational associations and institutions that study and encourage the
study of vexillology.
