List of Icelandic flags

The following is a list of Icelandic flags.

National flag and State flag

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

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1944–present	President's flag	The State Emblem charged in the center. Ratio: 37:18
	1944–present	Customs ensign.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1944–present	War flag and Naval ensign used by the Icelandic Coast Guard, Iceland Air Defence System, Icelandic Crisis Response Unit	ratio: 37:18

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

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.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Brokey Yacht Club	Burgee of Siglingafélag Reykjavíkur, Brokey.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1934-1944	Nationalist Party	Republican flag defaced with red Swastika.

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