List of Dutch flags

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

National flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1813–1815	Flag of Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands	A horizontal tricolor of red, white and blue.
	1815–1839	Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
	1839–present	Flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. See also Flag of the Netherlands.
		Hanging flag	Hanging variant of the national flag
		Orange streamer	Orange is the colour of the Royal Family

Constituent countries

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1839-present	Flag of the Netherlands
	18 March 1976	Flag of Aruba
	2 July 1984	Flag of Curaçao
	13 June 1985	Flag of Sint Maarten

Provinces and public bodies of the Netherlands

Map illustrating provinces of the Netherlands and their flags

Provinces

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	19 February 1947[1]	Flag of Drenthe
	9 January 1986[2]	Flag of Flevoland
		Flag of Friesland
		Flag of Gelderland
		Flag of Groningen
		Flag of Limburg
		Flag of North Brabant
		Flag of North Holland
		Flag of Overijssel
		Flag of South Holland
		Flag of Utrecht
		Flag of Zeeland

Public bodies

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Bonaire
		Flag of Saba
		Flag of Sint Eustatius

Municipal flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description of the respective cities
	5 February 1975	Flag of the national capital, Amsterdam	Place in which Dutch colonial efforts where centralized
	1545–1549, 1647–? (1938), 1994–present	Flag of Maastricht, the capital of the province of Limburg	Key place for controlling the Meuse river in the rebellion and war against the Spanish-Habsburg empire
	10 February 1949	Flag of Rotterdam, the second city of The Netherlands	The Dutch example of new and old in one city. The center was renovated after WW2 vanquished the old center. Also home to one of the Dutch top Football clubs
		Flag of Arnhem, the capital city of the largest province of Gelderland	Where operation 'Market Garden' proved that three bridges is one 'bridge too far'
		Flag of Eindhoven, the largest city of the province of Noord-Brabant	Historical home of de CD, because of 'Philips' and the city's tech university
		Flag of Lelystad, the capital of the province of Flevoland	The youngest state capital in the country and by extension one of the youngest inhabited places is the country.
		Flag of Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland
	1456	Flag of Sneek, the second city of the province of Friesland	Namesake of one of the biggest sailing events in the country
		Flag of the City of Utrecht, the capital of the province of Utrecht	The most central big city of the Netherlands
		Flag of The Hague, the capital of the province of South Holland	Not the Capital but does house the entire government
		Flag of 's-Hertogenbosch, the capital of the province of North Brabant	For about a week a year this place is unofficially known as Oeteldonk
		Flag of Zwolle, the capital of the province of Overijssel
		Flag of Enschede, the largest city of the Twente region and the province of Overijssel	Home to one of the three Tech universities of the Netherlands
		Flag of Hilversum, the largest city of the Gooi area	The Capital of Dutch television
	1879	Flag of City of Groningen, the capital of the province of Groningen	As the Dutch saying goes: nothing above Groningen, since it's the most northern large city in the entire kingdom.
		Flag of Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland	Terminus of the country's oldest railroad connection
		Flag of Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland	City of importance for the America's part of Dutch colonial efforts
		Flag of Assen, the capital of the province of Drenthe	As if 2020 the one TT circuit of the Netherlands
		Flag of Heerlen, a city in the south of the province of Limburg
	11-04-1949	Flag of Leiden, The Holland city of the oldest Dutch university Leiden University and Birthplace of Rembrandt Rembrandt	Holding official city status since at least 1266. Also home to the 2019/2020 Rugby champion of the country and the Student Rugby CLub LSRG (1960)
	30-05-1996	Flag of Delft, Home of the primary Tech University and the painter Vermeer Delft University of Technology Johannes Vermeer	Home to the oldest university Rugby team of the country D.S.R-C established in 1918.

Royal family

Royal standard

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2013–present	Royal flag (Dutch: koninklijke vlag), or the royal standard, of the kingdom's monarch	A square orange flag, divided in four quarters by a nassau-blue cross with the small coat of arms of the Kingdom, surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of William. Each quarter shows a bugle-horn which originates in arms of the Principality of Orange.

Other members of the royal family

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1985–present	Princes of the Netherlands (Sons of Beatrix) Constantijn and formerly Johan-Friso	As princes of the Netherlands use a 5:6 rectangular flag with the Royal standard colours and their parental arms (a white tower) in the lower hoist as difference.
	1988–present	Princes of the Netherlands (Sons of Margriet) Maurits, Bernhard, Pieter-Christiaan and Floris	As princes of the Netherlands use a 5:6 rectangular flag with the Royal standard colours and their parental arms (a white six pointed star) in the lower hoist as difference.
	1960–present	Princesses of the Netherlands (Daughters of Juliana) Irene, Margriet and Christina	As princesses of the Netherlands use a swallow tailed flag, with the Royal standard colours and their parental arms (a heraldic rose) in the lower hoist as difference.
	2002–present	Máxima of Orange-Nassau	As queen Máxima uses a swallow tailed standard, with the colours of her husband's flag changed and her parental arms (a yellow tower) in the lower hoist.
	2003–present	Laurentien of Orange-Nassau	As princess Laurentien uses a swallow-tailed standard, with the colours of her husband's flag counterchanged and her parental arms (a yellow heraldic lozenge) in the lower hoist.

Dutch governors

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Standard of the Governor of Aruba	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and a badge of the flag of Aruba in the centre.
		Standard of the Governor of Curaçao	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and a badge of the flag of Curaçao in the centre.
		Standard of the Governor of Sint Maarten	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and a badge of Sint Maarten in the centre.

Military and naval flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Ministry of Defence
		(former) Flag of the Ministry of Defence
	July 1964 – present	Flag of the Royal Netherlands Air Force
		Flag of the Royal Netherlands Army
		Civilian Jack of the Netherlands (unofficial; most common variant)
		The "Geus", the naval jack of the Netherlands.
	1957 - present	Flag of the Secretary of Defence.
	2002 - present	Flag of the Netherlands Coast Guard.
	2005 - present	Flag of the Commander in chief of the Dutch Armed Forces.

Historical

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1572–1795	The Prince's Flag	A horizontal triband of orange, white and blue.
	1652–1672	States Flag	A horizontal triband of red, white and blue. The blue is a lighter shade than that of the current national flag
	1795–1806	Flag of the Batavian Republic	A horizontal triband of red, white and blue with the Republic’s emblem in the canton.
	1813–1815	Flag of Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands	A horizontal triband of red, white and blue.
	1815–1839	Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
	1839–present	Flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
	1959–1975	Flag of Dutch Guyana (Suriname)	A white flag with white, black, brown, red and yellow five-pointed stars, connected by a black ellipse
	1959–1986	Flag of the Netherlands Antilles	white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a hexagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up. The six stars represented the six main islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten
	1986–2010	Flag of the Netherlands Antilles after the secession of Aruba	white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered; five white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a pentagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up. The five stars represented the five main islands of Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.

Royal standards

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1908–2013	Royal Standard of the Monarch	A square orange flag, divided in four quarters by a nassau-blue cross with the small coat of arms of the Kingdom, surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of William. Each quarter shows a bugle-horn which originates in arms of the Principality of Orange.
	1815–1908	Royal Standard of the Monarch	The colours of the flag of the Netherlands with the royal coat of arms (without the mantle).

Other members of the Royal Family

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1898–1908	Standard of a Prince	A flag with the colours of the historical Royal Standard with the Royal coat of arms in an orange rectangle at the central band.
	1898–1908	Standard of a Princess	A swallow tailed flag with the colours of the historical Royal Standard with the Royal coat of arms in an orange rectangle at the central band.
	1980–2004	Standard of Juliana of Orange-Nassau
	1908–1934	Standard of Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont
	1908–1910	Standard of Marie of Orange-Nassau
	1980–2002	Standard of the Prince Consort
	1948–1980	Standard of the Prince Consort
	1908–1934	Standard of the Prince Consort

Dutch governors

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1966–1975	Standard of the Governor of Suriname	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of Suriname in the centre.
	1966–1986	Standard of the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of Netherlands Antilles in the centre.
	1986–2010	Standard of the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles	A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of Netherlands Antilles in the centre.

Historical flags of the Dutch East India Company & Dutch East Indies

• 
  First Flag of the Dutch East India Company
• 
  Second Flag of the Dutch East India Company, adopted with red stripe around 1630 or to 1663 and beyond, for the purpose of better visibility at sea against a light sky
• 
  Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company
• 
  Dutch East Indies

References

1. "Provincie Drenthe - Hoe ziet de vlag van Drenthe er uit?". Provincie.drenthe.nl. 2008-01-31. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
2. "Provincie Flevoland - Vlag en Wapen". Flevoland.nl. 2010-01-12. Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2011-09-28.