List of flags of Belarus

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The following is a list of flags of Belarus.

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[edit] National flag and State flag

Flag Date Use Description
1995—Present State flag and civil ensign Proportions: 1:2

[edit] Governmental flags

Flag Date Use Description
1997—present Presidential flag Proportions: 5:6
?—present Ministry for Emergency Situations
2000—present Border Guard Green with a red saltire
2000—present Chairman of State Committee of the Border Guard Green with a red saltire with the State coat of arms in the center.
2000—Present Chief of Staff of Border Guard Green with a red saltire with the Border Guard emblem in the center.
2001—Present State Committee of Aviation Blue with a triangle, in the ceter of which the symbol of the SCA is placed.
2001—Present Customs Green flag with the emblem of the Belarusian customs in the center.

[edit] Military flag

Flag Date Use Description
?—Present Flag of the Armed Forces
2005—Present Land Forces Flag Red with an emblem of the Land Forced in full colors in the center.
2005—Present Air Forces Air force emblem responding to 2/5 of the total flag width is placed on a blue field of flag with yellow beams.
2003 —Present Flag of DOSAAF Emblem of DOSAAF centered on a sky-blue background

[edit] Historical flags

Flag Date Use Description
never used 1995 proposal for National Flag Red with two small green stripes on the top and bottom.
1991—1995 State flag and civil ensign Proportions: 1:2
1951—1991 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR
1944—1951 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR
1941—1944 German occupation
1942—1944 German occupation Alternate flag used during the German occupation
1937—1940 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR
1919—1937 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR
1919—1919 Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR
1919—1925 Belarusian National Republic (in exile) White with a red horizontal band of red, the central red stripe being bordered by a thin black stripes.
1918—1918 Belarusian National Republic Proportions: 1:2

[edit] Subdivision flags

Flag Date Use Description
2000—Present Minsk (City) Blue with the Minsk Coat of Arms of 1591 in the center.
2004—Present Brest Voblast Blue with a yellow zoubre (Bison bonasus) on a red stylized tower (coat of arms of the Region of Brest).
2005—Present Homiel Voblast Green with the coat of arms of the Region of Homyel (Gomel) (only in the centre of an obverse side of the flag). Ratio: 1:2.
2007-Present Hrodna Voblast Blue with the coat of arms of city of Vitebsk-city (only in the centre of an obverse side of the flag). Ratio 1:2
2005—Present Mahilyow Voblast Red with the coat of arms of the Region of Mogilyov (only in the centre of an obverse side of the flag). Ratio: 1:2.
2000—Present Minsk Voblast
2004—Present Vitsebsk Voblast Blue with the coat of arms of city of Vitebsk-city (only in the centre of an obverse side of the flag). Ratio 1:2

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