Flags of autonomous regions and islands

Places that run their own affairs inside another country, from Greenland and Hong Kong to Zanzibar and Easter Island.

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Autonomy comes in many sizes. Greenland and the Faroes run almost everything except defence and foreign policy; Hong Kong and Macau keep their own laws and currencies; others, like Rodrigues or the Chatham Islands, have little more than a local council. What they share is a flag, flown beside the national one.

Spain’s, France’s and Italy’s autonomous regions have their own pages.

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Europe

Greenland
A red and white disc on white over red: the sun setting over the ice. Designed by Thue Christiansen in 1985.
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Faroe Islands
The Merkið: a red Nordic cross edged in blue, on white.
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Åland Islands
Sweden’s colours with a red cross: the islands are Swedish-speaking but belong to Finland.
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Flanders
The black lion of Flanders on gold.
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Wallonia
A red cockerel on gold.
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Azores
A goshawk under nine stars, one for each island.
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Madeira
The cross of the Order of Christ on gold, between blue bands for the sea.
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Gagauzia
Blue, white and red with three stars, for the Turkic-speaking Christian Gagauz.
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Republika Srpska
The Serbian tricolour without its arms, for the Serb-majority half of Bosnia.
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Africa and the Middle East

Kurdistan Region
A gold sun with 21 rays on red, white and green.
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Puntland
Somalia’s star over white and green; self-governing since 1998.
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Zanzibar
Tanzania’s flag in the canton, over blue, black and green.
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Mwali
Mohéli, one of the three islands of the Comoros.
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Rodrigues
An autonomous island of Mauritius, about 560 km east of the main island.
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Asia

Hong Kong
A white bauhinia flower on red, since the handover to China in 1997.
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Macau
A lotus over a bridge and the sea, under five stars, since 1999.
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Karakalpakstan
Blue, yellow and green, with a crescent and five stars.
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The Pacific

Cook Islands
A Blue Ensign with a ring of fifteen stars, one for each island.
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Niue
Yellow, with the Union Jack and five stars in the canton.
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Tokelau
A traditional canoe sailing under the Southern Cross.
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Chatham Islands
A map of the islands against a rising sun: they’re among the first inhabited places to see each new day.
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Easter Island
A red reimiro, a Rapa Nui breast ornament, on white.
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