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 FlagDateUseDescription 1813–1815 Flag of the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. 1815–1839 Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1839–present Flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. ?–present Hanging pennon Hanging variant of the national flag ?–present Orange pennon Orange is the colour of the royal family
Constituent countries FlagDateUseDescription 1839–present Flag of the Netherlands A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. 1976–present Flag of Aruba A medium blue field with a white fimbriated (bordered) red four-pointed star in its upper hoist corner and two narrow horizontal yellow stripes in its lower half. 1984–present Flag of Curaçao A blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the midline and two white five-pointed stars in the canton. 1985–present Flag of Sint Maarten A white triangle situated at the hoist charged with the constituent country's coat of arms, along with two horizontal bands of red and blue.
Provinces
FlagDateUseDescription 1947–present Flag of Drenthe A white flag with two horizontal red stripes. Between the two stripes there is a black tower and six red stars. 1986–present Flag of Flevoland A flag with three stripes: blue, a thinner yellow one which is wavy on the hoist side, and green, with a white fleur-de-lis placed in the canton. 1957–present Flag of Friesland A flag consists of four blue and three white diagonal stripes; the white stripes filling with a total of seven red pompeblêden. 1953–present Flag of Gelderland A horizontal tricolour flag in blue, yellow (gold), and black. 1950–present Flag of Groningen A flag with a green cross fimbriated in white, and red in the first and fourth quarter, blue in the second and third quarter. 1953–present Flag of Limburg A horizontal tricolour flag in white, blue, and yellow (proportion 2:1:2) and a red lion rampant towards hoist side. 1959–present Flag of North Brabant A chequy pattern alternatively in red and white. 1958–present Flag of North Holland A horizontal tricolour flag in yellow, red, and blue. 1948–present Flag of Overijssel A yellow flag with two red bands in top and bottom, and a blue wavy band in the middle. 1985–present Flag of South Holland A yellow flag with a red lion rampant towards hoist side. 1952–present Flag of Utrecht A horizontal bicolour flag in white and red, with Saint George's Cross in the canton. 1949–present Flag of Zeeland A flag with wavy bands in blue and white with the coat of arms of Zeeland in the centre.
Public bodies FlagDateUseDescription 1981–present Flag of Bonaire A large blue triangle from the bottom corners to the upper fly and a smaller yellow triangle at the upper hoist, separated by a white strip containing a black compass and a red six-pointed star. 1985–present Flag of Saba Two equal red triangles at the top and two equal blue triangles at the bottom, with a white diamond with yellow star in the middle. 2004–present Flag of Sint Eustatius Divided in four five-sided blue polygons, each fimbriated red. In its centre is a diamond-form white field. In the diamond is the silhouette of the island in green, and above the island is a five-pointed golden/yellow star.
Municipalities
FlagDateUseDescription 1959–present Flag of Amersfoort, a city in the province of Utrecht situated at the eastern edge of the Randstad. Three horizontal stripes in white and red, with two red blocks placed below and above a Saint George's cross on the hoist sideTwitterbericht Martjan Kuit d.d. 5 oktober 2021, Zuiderhoek ontwierp woningen, kerken, bruggen en de vlag van Amersfoort. 1975–present Flag of the national capital, Amsterdam Coat of arms of Amsterdam presented horizontally on field ?–present Flag of Arnhem, the capital city of the largest province, Gelderland A bi-colour field with white in the top and blue in the bottom, and a counterchanged double-headed eagle towards hoist side 1959–present Flag of Assen, the capital of the province of Drenthe A bi-colour flag with blue in the top and white in the bottom 1996–present Flag of Delft, home of the Delft University of Technology and Johannes VermeerCoat of arms of Delft presented horizontally on field. A triband of white, black, and white. 1927–present Flag of Eindhoven, the largest city of the province of North Brabant A flag with two vertical stripes in red and white in the hoist side and five horizontal strips alternatively in red and white 2023–present Flag of Enschede, the largest city of the Twente region and the province of Overijssel A white field with a red stripe with a battle fence 1879–present Flag of the city of Groningen, the capital of the province of Groningen A white field with a green stripe ?–present Flag of Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland A red field with the coat of arms of Haarlem towards hoist side 1966–present Flag of Heerlen, a city in the south of the province of Limburg A blue field with a golden eagle in the middle 1999–present Flag of 's-Hertogenbosch, the capital of the province of North Brabant A flag with five stripes alternatively in red and white and a black square with a yellow tree in the canton 1958–present Flag of Hilversum, the largest city of the Gooi area Coat of arms of Hilversum in banner form 2019–present Flag of Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland A blue flag with a yellow lion rampant in the middle and two vertical stripes alternatively in red and white in the hoist side 1949–present Flag of Leiden, a city in South Holland with the oldest Dutch university, Leiden University, and birthplace of Rembrandt A red field with a white stripe in the middle, with a white disc towards hoist with red border and two crossed red keys 1981–present Flag of Lelystad, the capital of the province of Flevoland A yellow field with a blue hexagon filling with a white fleur-de-lis towards hoist and surrounding by the bases of four Ls forming a box. 1545–1549, 1647–? (1938), 1994–present Flag of Maastricht, the capital of the province of Limburg A white five-pointed star in the red field, towards hoist 1974–present Flag of Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland Coat of arms of Middelburg in banner form 1949–present Flag of Rotterdam, the second city of the Netherlands A white stripe in the green field 1984–present Flag of Scheveningen, a seaside resort and a district of The Hague In azure with three right swimming herrings of silver, each herring with a three-leaved yellow crown, floating above the head. 1456–present Flag of Sneek, the second city of the province of Friesland A flag with hoist half in black and fly half in yellow 1949–present Flag of The Hague, the capital of the province of South Holland A flag with yellow at the top and green at the bottom 1990–present Flag of the city of Utrecht, the capital of the province of Utrecht A bi-colour flag in white and red field and partly per bend 1980–present Flag of Weert, a town in the centre of the province of Limburg A white field with a blue horizontal stripe in the middle and a yellow vertical stripe in the hoist side surmounted with three red horns 1962–present Flag of Zwolle, the capital of the province of Overijssel A blue field with a white cross
Regions