How many states have their own flags?

Every US state has a designated state flag. Each flag's design is unique to the state and is represented by colors, symbols, and historical references that tell the state's story. See all 50 state's flags along with the official adoption date, fun facts and detailed descriptions.
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Do all the states have their own flag?

In the United States of America, all the states honor the red, white, and blue American flag because they're part of the USA family, but their own flag sets each one apart from the other 49.
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What state does not have a flag?

Update: On November 3, 2020, Mississippi voted to approve a replacement flag, which was then officially adopted on January 11, 2021.
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What is the only US state without a rectangular flag?

U.S. state flag in a swallow-tailed shape incorporating red and white stripes and a blue hoist triangle featuring a white-bordered red disk and 17 stars. Ohio is the only one of the 50 states to use a nonrectangular flag.
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Does Hawaii have a flag?

U.S. state flag consisting of alternating horizontal stripes of white, red, and blue with the Union Jack in the canton.
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American State Flags



What states still fly Confederate flags?

State flags
  • Alabama.
  • Arkansas.
  • Florida.
  • Georgia.
  • Mississippi.
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What 2 countries had the same flag?

Indonesia and Monaco

The flags for these two countries are almost identical—two horizontal stripes, red over white—but Indonesia's is longer. Both flags date back hundreds of years.
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Does Florida have a flag?

The current design of Florida's state flag was adopted in 1900. In that year, Florida voters ratified a constitutional amendment based on an 1899 joint resolution of the state legislature to add diagonal red bars, in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, to the flag.
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Does Washington DC have its own flag?

The flag of Washington, D.C., consists of three red stars above two red bars on a white background. It is an armorial banner based on the design of the coat of arms granted to George Washington's great-great-great-grandfather, Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England in 1592.
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Does Georgia have a flag?

The current flag of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003. The flag bears three stripes consisting of red-white-red, featuring a blue canton containing a ring of 13 white stars encompassing the state's coat of arms in gold.
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Does Ohio have a flag?

The Ohio flag has three red and two white horizontal stripes. At its staff end is a blue triangular field with the apex at the center of the middle red stripe. There are 17 white, five-pointed stars grouped around a red disc superimposed upon a white circular O.
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Does Pennsylvania have a flag?

The coat of arms of Pennsylvania is an official emblem of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alongside the seal and state flag, and was adopted in 1778. The flag of Pennsylvania consists of a blue field on which the state coat of arms is displayed.
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Does Texas have its own pledge?

The pledge of allegiance to the state flag is as follows: Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. The pledge was instituted by the Texas Legislature in 1933.
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Why is the Maryland flag so weird?

The Red and the White

He was referring to the fact that the Crossland family name is represented on its coat of arms by a cross bottony, a special kind of cross in which the ends of its arms are decorated with trefoil knobs. During the Civil War, the Crossland banner became a symbol of the Confederacy.
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Why does Hawaii flag have Union Jack?

The inclusion of the Union Jack of the United Kingdom is a mark of the Royal Navy's historical relations with the Hawaiian Kingdom, particularly with King Kamehameha I. The flag continued to be used after the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
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Does Michigan have a flag?

Michigan's present state flag was adopted by the Legislature in 1911 with a simple phrase: The State Flag shall be blue charged with the arms of the State. This is Michigan's third flag. The state coat of arms appears on both sides.
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Does Virginia have a flag?

The state flag of Virginia consists of the obverse of the seal against a blue background. A state flag was first adopted at the beginning of the American Civil War in April 1861, readopted in 1912, and standardized by the General Assembly in February 1950.
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Does Massachusetts have a flag?

U.S. state flag consisting of a white field (background) with a coat of arms featuring an American Indian and a star. The seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1629 showed an Indian and pine trees, and both these symbols have continued to be used up to the present time.
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What flag has ak47?

"Mozambique's flag is the only one to feature a modern automatic weapon," Berry says. The AK-47 on Mozambique's flag is symbolic of the war for its independence, which was finally granted in 1975, in which the Russian firearm was used.
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Which country has no tricolor flag?

The correct answer is Switzerland.
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Why do Texas and Chile have the same flag?

The flag of the U.S. state of Texas is similar to the Chilean flag. The flag of Texas was designed and adopted on 25 January 1839; whereas Chile adopted a flag similar to today's Chilean flag 22 years earlier on 18 October 1817.
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Is the Alabama flag based on the Confederate flag?

Adopted: 1895 Alabama adopted their state flag, which is a red St. Andrew's cross, which was also used as a reference for the Confederate battle flag, on a field of white, in 1895.
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Is Arkansas the Confederate flag?

there was no indication on the flag that Arkansas had been a member of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. To correct that, the legislature in 1923 added a fourth blue star above the letter “R” in Arkansas and moved the single blue star to a position above the last “A”.
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What would a Confederate soldier say?

The Confederate Soldier Motto

Under the commands of Robert E. Lee and Samuel Cooper, soldiers of the Confederacy lived by the Motto “Deo Vindice” (God will vindicate us).
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