This is a list of flags associated with Panama.
National flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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(1903) | Proposed flag of Panama | 14 horizontal red-yellow alternating stripes with a blue canton, featuring two suns connected together, representing North America and South America being united by the Panama isthmus. | |
(1903) | First flag of Panama | Divided rectangle into four quadrants, with the top-left consisting of a blue background, the top-right consisting of a white background with a red five-point star, the bottom-left consisting of a white background with a blue five-point star, and the bottom-right consisting of a red background. | |
(1903–1979) | Flag of The Panama Canal Zone (U.S. territory) | A blue field with the territory's emblem in the center. | |
(1925–present) | Flag of Panama | Divided rectangle into four quadrants, with the top-left consisting of a white background with a blue five-point star, the top-right consisting of a red background, the bottom-left consisting of a blue background, and the bottom-right consisting of a white background with a red five-point star. | |
(?-present) | Presidential standard of Panama | Current flag of Panama with the Panamanian coat of arms in the middle. |
Province flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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?-present | Flag of Bocas del Toro Province | Flag divided diagonally in half from top-left corner to bottom-right corner, green on bottom half and yellow on the top half. 3 white five-pointed stars curving slightly in the middle at the top of a capital, stylized 'B', with a drop shadow. | |
2004–present | Flag of Coclé Province | Vertical tricolor with, from left to right, red, gray, and white. The red stripe has two gray diamonds, one bottom-left from the top one. The gray stripe has two white diamonds, one at the bottom and one at the top. The white stripe has two red diamonds, one bottom-right from the top one. | |
1996–present | Flag of Colón Province | Horizontal tricolor with, from top to bottom, baby blue, white, and gold. The coat of arms of Colón is centered in the middle, with five five-pointed gold stars curved at the top. | |
?-present | Flag of Chiriquí Province | Flag divided diagonally in half from the bottom-left corner to the top-right corner, red at the top and green at the bottom. There are 14 white five-pointed stars in the middle arrayed in a circle, similar to the EU flag. | |
?-present | Flag of Darién Province | Flag divided diagonally in half from the bottom-left corner to the top-right corner, baby blue at the top and green at the bottom. There are 4 five-pointed yellow stars, arrayed in a hard curve. | |
1992–present | Flag of Herrera Province | Flag divided in half horizontally, with gold on the top half and blue on the bottom half. There is a labeled map of the province in the middle, with 7 blue five-pointed stars at the top arrayed in a curve to represent each district in the province. | |
1850–present | Flag of Los Santos Province | Horizontal tricolor with, from the top to the bottom, blue, gold, and red. | |
2015–present | Flag of Panamá Oeste Province | Horizontal tricolor with, from top to bottom, gold, white, and gold. It also has a green chevron with 5 white five-pointed stars arrayed in a curve. | |
2019–present | Flag of Veraguas Province | Blue background with a white filled-in outline of the province. It also has 12 five-pointed white stars arrayed around the map. |
Indigenous regions
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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(?-present) | Flag of Emberá-Wounaan Comarca | Horizontal tricolor with a large green stripe at the top, and two other proportionate stripes, from top to bottom, yellow and blue. | |
(2010–present) | Flag of Guna Yala comarca | Horizontal tricolor with an enlarged middle yellow stripe, and a top red stripe and bottom green stripe. There are two crossed arms in the middle, the right holding an arrow and the left holding a bow. There are 8 five-point stars arrayed in a curve around the top of the middle symbol. | |
(1925–2010) | Flag of revolution of Guna and former Guna Yala flag | Horizontal tricolor with an enlarged middle yellow stripe, with orange top and bottom stripes. In the middle rests a black left-facing swastika. | |
(1942) | Former flag of Guna Yala | Horizontal tricolor with an enlarged middle yellow stripe, with red top and bottom stripes. In the middle rests a black left-facing swastika, with a red ring, representing the nose rings the Guna people use, encircling it, overlapping the swastika except the top branch; The design was created to distance the original flag away from the nazis | |
(2009–present) | Flag of Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca | Vertical tricolor, with, from left to right, red, white, and green stripes. In the center, there are three five-point stars, with one stacked on the other two. | |
(?-present) | Flag of Naso Tjër Di Comarca | The comarca's emblem centered in the middle of a plain white background. |
Historical flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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(1698–1700) | Colony of New Caledonia | Red background with three small stripes at the bottom, from top to bottom, blue, white, and blue, representing a sea. There is a rising yellow sun off-centered slightly to the left. | |
(1739–1810) and (1816–1822) | Flag of the Viceroyalty of New Granada | The flag for the viceroyalty was the Spanish flag from 1785 to 1873. It contains a horizontal tricolor, with an enlarged yellow center stripe with two red stripes at the top and bottom. Off-centered slightly to the left is an outdated version of the coat of arms of Spain. | |
(1821–1831) | Flag of Gran Colombia | A horizontal tricolor with, from top to bottom, yellow, blue, and red. The center contains the coat of arms of Gran Colombia. | |
(1831–1863) | Flag of the Republic of New Granada and the Granadine Confederation. | A vertical tricolor with, from left to right, red, blue, and yellow. | |
(1863–1903) | Flag of the United States of Colombia (1863–1886) | A horizontal tricolor with an enlarged yellow top stripe with a blue and red stripe at the bottom. | |
Flag of the Republic of Colombia (1886–1903) | |||
(1824–1855) | Flag of the Isthmus Department | A horizontal tricolor with an enlarged yellow top stripe with a blue and red stripe at the bottom. In the top-left is the coat of arms of Gran Colombia. | |
(1855–1863) | Flag of The Panama State | A vertical tricolour of red, blue and yellow with the state's emblem in the center. | |
(1863–1886) | A horizontal tricolour of red, blue and yellow with the state's emblem in the center. |
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120319025103/http://www.asamblea.gob.pa/APPS/LEGISPAN/PDF_NORMAS/1920/1925/1925_097_0722.PDF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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- "Kuna Yala (Guna Yala) – Panama – Information, Pictures & Hotels". Neue Welt Reisen. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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