# List of Tanzanian flags

The following is a list of flags and banners used in Tanzania.

## National flag

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1964–Present | Flag of Tanzania | A Yellow-edged black diagonal band divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner: the upper triangle is green and the lower triangle is light blue. |

## Government flags

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1964–Present | Presidential flag of Tanzania | A green field with a blue border with the national coat of arms (without humans) imposed at the center. |

### German East Africa

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1884-1891 | Flags of The German East Africa Company | A white lion, white tree, and five white stars on a red field, surrounded by a black and white patterned border. |
| 1884-1891 | Flags of The German East Africa Company | A white field with a centred black cross; five white stars on a red field in the canton. |
| 1891-1918 | Flag of the Imperial Colonial Office | A tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom) defaced with the Reichsadler in the centre. |
| 1904-? | Flag of the East African Railroad Company | A per saltire divided into four panels of white (top and bottom), black (hoist side), and red (fly side), charged with the company's emblem. |

### Sultanate of Zanzibar

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1952-1963 | Flag of The British Resident Minister of Zanzibar | The flag of Britain defaced with the emblem of the Resident Minister of Zanzibar. |

## Regional flags

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 2005–Present | Flag of Zanzibar | Horizontal tricolour of blue, black, and green with the national flag of Tanzania in the canton. |
| | 1964-2005 | Flag of Zanzibar | Zanzibar formerly used the national flag. |

## Political flags

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1954-1977 | Flag of the Tanganyika African National Union | A horizontal tricolour of green (top), black and green. |
| 1957-1977 | Flag of the Afro-Shirazi Party | A tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured light blue (top), black, and green (bottom) defaced with a yellow hoe in the centre. |
| 1977–Present | Flag of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi | A green field with the party emblem in the top-left canton. |

## Historical flags
### Kilwa Sultanate

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 957–1513 | Flag of the Kilwa Sultanate | A swallowtailed bicoloured banner of yellow and red with 2 white crescent moons. |

### Portuguese Zanzibar

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1505-1521 | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |
| 1521-1578 | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |
| 1578-1640 | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |
| 1616-1640 (Putative) | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |
| 1640-1667 | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |
| 1667-1698 | Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal | A white field with the coat of arms in the center. |

### Omani Zanzibar

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1698–1856 | Flag of the Omani Empire | A White Field with red Arabic script above and a red sword pointed to the right. |

### Sultanate of Zanzibar

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1856-1861 | Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar | 13 horizontal stripes. 4 red, 4 green, 2 white and 3 yellow with 8 green crescent moons. 3 in the superior and inferior yellow stripes and 2 in the central yellow stripe. |
| 1896–1963 | Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar (British protectorate) | a simple red field. |
| 1963–1964 | Flag of the Sultanate of Zanzibar | A red field with a green disk in the centre bearing two yellow cloves in the centre. |

### German rule

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1891–1918 | Flag of the German Empire | A tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom) |
| | 1918-1919 | Flag of the Weimar Republic | A tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), red, and gold (bottom). |

### British rule

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1890-1963 | Flag of the United Kingdom (used dually in Zanzibar and Tanganyika) | A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's Saltire (representing Ireland). |
| | 1919–1961 | Flag of Tanganyika Territory | A British Red Ensign with the Emblem of the British League of Nations mandate (a British UN Trust Territory after 1946) centred on the outer half of the flag. |

### Republic of Tanganyika

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1961–1964 | Flag of Tanganyika | A green field with a gold-edged black horizontal band in the centre. |

### People's Republic of Zanzibar

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | January 1964 | Flag of the People's Republic of Zanzibar | A horizontal tricolour of black, yellow and blue. |
| | January–April 1964 | Flag of the People's Republic of Zanzibar | A horizontal tricolour of blue, black and green. |

## Proposed flag

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1914 | Proposed Flag of German East Africa | A tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom) defaced with a proposed coat of arms in the center. |