List of Azerbaijani flags

This is a list of flags used in Azerbaijan, both today and in the past.

National flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2013–present	Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan	Horizontal tricolour of bright blue, red, and green, with a white crescent and a centred eight-pointed star Proportion 1:2[1]

Governmental flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1992–present	Presidential standard	National tricolour with the coat of arms in the center
	2004–present	Presidential standard (at sea)	Naval ensign with national tricolour and the coat of arms in the center

Azerbaijani Armed Forces

Azerbaijani Land Forces

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Azerbaijani Land Forces

Azerbaijani Navy

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991	Ensign of the Azerbaijani Navy	As Azerbaijan was formerly a Soviet republic, the naval ensign of Azerbaijan closely mimics the old Soviet equivalent; a star and crescent replaces the red star, a blue anchor replaces the hammer and sickle, and what used to be a simple light blue bar at the bottom of the flag has been replaced by a wavy sort of pattern.
		Flag of the commander in chief of Azerbaijan Naval Staff
		Flag of the commander in chief of the Azerbaijani Navy
		Flag of the commander of a group of Azerbaijan Navy
		The flag of the Azerbaijani Coast Guard	A green flag with the flag of the Navy in the canton.
		Flag of the president of Azerbaijan while on board a ship of the State Border Service
		Flag of the chief of the State Border Service - Commander of Border Troops
		Flag of the chief of general staff of the Border Troops
		Flag of the commander of a group of vessels
		Command pennant of Border Patrol vessels
		Masthead pennant of Border Patrol vessels

Azerbaijani Air Force

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991	Flag of the Azerbaijani Air and Air Defence Force

Border Service of Azerbaijan

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991	Flag of the Border Troops (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
	1991	Flag of the Border Regiments (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
	1991	Flag of the Border Units (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag

Internal Troops of Azerbaijan

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Internal Troops of Azerbaijan
		Flag of the Vashag

Political flags

Flag	Date	Description
	2005–present	Democratic Reforms Party

Ethnic groups flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Afshar people
		Flags of Avars
		Flag of Lezgins
		Flags of Talysh people
		Flag of Karapapakhs

Historical flags

	1452-1478	Standard of Uzun Hasan	Uzun Hasan's standard, sultan of Aq Qoyunlu from 1452 until 1478
	1576–1666	Banner of the Safavid Qizilbash	Features the Lion and Sun emblem on white
	1501–1524	Flag of the Safavid dynasty	The Lion and Sun symbol on a green background.
	1524–1576	Flag of the Safavid dynasty during Shah Tahmasp's reign[2]	The reason he had placed a sheep on the official flag was that he was born during the month of Aries.[2]
	1576–1732	Flag of the Safavid dynasty	After Shah Tahmasp's death, the old flag was reinstated.[2]
	1747–1796	Standard of the Afsharid dynasty	Three-striped version
	1747–1796	Standard of the Afsharid dynasty	Four-striped version
	1747–1828	Banner of Nakhichevan Khanate
	1918	Flag of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship	Three horizontal stripes, the upper and lower stripes of light blue colour and the middle stripe red.
	1917	Flag of the Musavat Party of Turkic Federalists
	1918	Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Source for the design of the current flag
	1918–1919	Flag of Republic of Aras
	1918	Flag of the Baku Commune	Bears the text Бакинскiй Совнаркомь (Bakinskiy Sovnarkom)
	1918–1920	Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Similar to the current flag
	1920	Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
	1920–1921	Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
	1921–1922	Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
	1922–1924	Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (TSFSR)	Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1922 to 1924
	1924–1927		Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1924 to 1927
	1927–1931	Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSFSR)	Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1927 to 1931
	1931–1937		Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1931 to 1937
	1930s–1936	Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic	Later flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
	1937–1940	Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
	1940–1952	Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
	1952–1991	Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic	Last flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
		Reverse flag	All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side.
	1921–1925	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1937–1939	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	One version of the flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Later versions bore the text "Нахчыван МССР" (Naxçıvan MSSR, meaning Nakhichevan ASSR), placed on the flag of the Azerbaijan SSR of the time, without the Armenian name.
	1939–1940	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1940–1945	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1945–1953	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1956–1978	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1978–1990	Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	Last flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
	1991–2013	Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan from 1991–2013	Similar to the flag of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and the current flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan
	1993	Flag of Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic

Azerbaijanis in other countries

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Iraqi Turkmen
		Flags of Iranian Azerbaijanis