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The following is a list of Icelandic flags .
National flag and State flag [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1944–present
National flag and civil ensign
A blue flag with a red Scandinavian Cross, fimbriated white. Used unofficially in 1913–1915, and as a territorial symbol as of 1915 until 1944 when the Republic of Iceland was established. Current color scheme established in 1944. The dimensions of the flag are 7:1:2:1:14 horizontally and 7:1:2:1:7 vertically; ratio: 18:25
1919–present
State flag
Ratio: 37:18
Governmental flags [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1944–present
President's flag
The State Emblem charged in the center. Ratio: 37:18
1944–present
Customs ensign.
Military flag [ edit ]
Historical flags [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
c. 930-1262
Flag of Iceland during the Icelandic Commonwealth era
12 alternating blue and white stripes
1262–1397
Flag of Norway
Banner of arms with golden lion on red canvas.
1397-1523
The "Banner of the realms" , flag of the Kalmar Union .
a red cross in a yellow field.
1523-1918
Flag of Denmark
A red field charged with a white Nordic cross that extends to the edges; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side.
1809
Flag of Iceland during the reign of King Jörundur
Three stockfishes in the first quarter on a blue field
1855-?
Standard of the Vestmannaeyjar Battalion (Herfylkingin )
A red saltire cross on a white field
1915–1944[1]
National flag and civil ensign of Iceland
It is almost identical to the newer Icelandic flag but this has a lighter blue color.
1915–1944[1]
War flag and Naval ensign of Iceland
It is almost identical to the newer Icelandic flag but this has a lighter blue color, just like the normal flag, above.
1921–1944[2]
Royal Standard of the King of Iceland
Crowned Gyrfalcon on a blue field
1940-1944
Flag of the United Kingdom, also commonly known as the Union Jack .
A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's Saltire (representing Ireland ).
1940–1944
Flag of the United States
Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 48 white stars on blue field.
1941–1944[3]
Standard of the Regent of Iceland
State flag of Iceland charged with a capital gold R on a rectangular panel
Unofficial flags [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
19th - early 20th century
Flag used by the independence movement
A Gyrfalcon on a blue field
Flag proposal.
White with a sky-blue cross with a white and blue stripe on either side. The flag committee of 1913 presented two proposals, the current flag and this flag.
Republican flag
Unofficial flag used by the republicans in the early 1900s. This flag was rejected by the flag committee of 1913 as it was considered too similar to the flag of Sweden and the Greek naval ensign .
Yacht club flags of Iceland [ edit ]
Political flags [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
Media related to Flags of Iceland at Wikimedia Commons
State-related Mobile military Mobile civilian
Other entities By design
(National , Gallery )
By nations
Names in
italics indicate
non-sovereign (dependent) territories, disputed states and/or former countries.