# List of Azerbaijani flags

This is a list of flags used in Azerbaijan, both today and in the past.

## National flag

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 2013–present | Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan | Horizontal tricolour of bright blue, red, and green, with a white crescent and a centred eight-pointed star Proportion 1:2 |

## Governmental flags

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1992–present | Presidential standard | National tricolour with the coat of arms in the center |
| | 2004–present | Presidential standard (at sea) | Naval ensign with national tricolour and the coat of arms in the center |

## Azerbaijani Armed Forces
### Azerbaijani Land Forces

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | | Flag of the Azerbaijani Land Forces | |

### Azerbaijani Navy

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1991 | Ensign of the Azerbaijani Navy | As Azerbaijan was formerly a Soviet republic, the naval ensign of Azerbaijan closely mimics the old Soviet equivalent; a star and crescent replaces the red star, a blue anchor replaces the hammer and sickle, and what used to be a simple light blue bar at the bottom of the flag has been replaced by a wavy sort of pattern. |
| 1991 | Flag of the commander in chief of Azerbaijan Naval Staff | |
| 1991 | Flag of the commander in chief of the Azerbaijani Navy | |
| 1991 | Flag of the commander of a group of Azerbaijan Navy | |
| 1991 | The flag of the Azerbaijani Coast Guard | A green flag with the flag of the Navy in the canton. |
| 1991 | Flag of the president of Azerbaijan while on board a ship of the State Border Service | |
| 1991 | Flag of the chief of the State Border Service - Commander of Border Troops | |
| 1991 | Flag of the chief of general staff of the Border Troops | |
| 1991 | Flag of the commander of a group of vessels | |
| 1991 | Command pennant of Border Patrol vessels | |
| 1991 | Masthead pennant of Border Patrol vessels | |

### Azerbaijani Air Force

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1991 | Flag of the Azerbaijani Air and Air Defence Force | |

### Border Service of Azerbaijan

| Date | Use |
| 1991 | Flag of the Border Troops (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag |
| 1991 | Flag of the Border Regiments (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag |
| 1991 | Flag of the Border Units (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag |

### Internal Troops of Azerbaijan

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | | Flag of the Internal Troops of Azerbaijan | |
| | | Flag of the Vashag | |

## Political flags

| Flag | Date | Description |
| | 2005–present | Democratic Reforms Party |

## Ethnic groups flags

* Use
* Flag of Afshar people
* Flags of Avars
* Flag of Lezgins
* Flags of Talysh people
* Flag of Karapapakhs

## Historical flags

| 1747–1828 | Banner of Nakhichevan Khanate | |
| 1918 | Flag of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship | Three horizontal stripes, the upper and lower stripes of light blue colour and the middle stripe red. |
| 1917 | Flag of the Musavat Party of Turkic Federalists | |
| 1918 | Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic | Source for the design of the current flag |
| 1918–1919 | Flag of Republic of Aras | |
| 1918 | Flag of the Baku Commune | Bears the text Бакинскiй Совнаркомь (Bakinskiy Sovnarkom) |
| 1918–1920 | Flag of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic | Similar to the current flag |
| 1920 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1920–1921 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic | |
| 1921–1922 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic | |
| 1922–1924 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (TSFSR) | Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1922 to 1924 |
| 1924–1927 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (TSFSR) | Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1924 to 1927 |
| 1927–1931 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSFSR) | Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1927 to 1931 |
| 1931–1937 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSFSR) | Flag of the AzSSR within the TSFSR from 1931 to 1937 |
| 1930s–1936 | Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic | Later flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
| 1937–1940 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1940–1952 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1952–1991 | Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | Last flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
| | Reverse flag | All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side. |
| 1921–1925 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1937–1939 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | One version of the flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Later versions bore the text "Нахчыван МССР" (Naxçıvan MSSR, meaning Nakhichevan ASSR), placed on the flag of the Azerbaijan SSR of the time, without the Armenian name. |
| 1939–1940 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1940–1945 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1945–1953 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1956–1978 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| 1978–1990 | Flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | Last flag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic |
| 1991–2013 | Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan from 1991–2013 | Similar to the flag of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and the current flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan |
| 1993 | Flag of Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic |

## Azerbaijanis in other countries

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | | Flag of Iraqi Turkmen | |
| | | Flags of Iranian Azerbaijanis | |