List of Dominican Republic flags

This is a lists of flags used in the Dominican Republic. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of the Dominican Republic.

National flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1844–present	National Flag with coat of arms, State flag, State ensign, and War ensign	A crossed two-colored flag with the country's coat of arms in the center. The white cross at the center is taken from the flag of La Trinitaria which led the struggle for independence.
	1849–present	Civil flag and ensign

Standards

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	?–present	Presidential Standard of the Dominican Republic (at Sea)
	1930s–1961	Personal flag of Rafael Trujillo

Military

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Dominican Armed Forces
		Flag of the Dominican Civil Defence

Land Force

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Dominican Army
		Standard of the Dominican Army Military Academy

Navy

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Naval Ensign
		Naval jack of the Dominican Navy
		Flag of the Naval Academy

Air Force

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Dominican Air Force

Police

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Dominican National Police

Institutional flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Judiciary System
		Flag of the Central Electoral Board
		Flag of the Dominican Port Authority
		Flag of the General Prosecutor of the Republic

Political flags

Flag	Date	Party	Description
	1973–present	Dominican Liberation Party
	2011–present	Country Alliance
	2009–present	Civic Renovation Party
	1959-1968	Revolutionary Movement on June 14es

Historical flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1492–1500	Royal Flag of The Crown of Castile	quartered banner of arms of Castile, represented by a castle, and León, represented by a lion.
	1500–1516	Royal Flag of The Crown of Castile	the same design of the previous flag in a slightly different shape.
	1516–1785	Flag of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo	The Cross of Burgundy flag represents the Spanish Empire.
	1785–1795, 1810–1821, 1861–1865	Flag of Santo Domingo	A Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Red with the coat of arms off-centred toward the hoist. In 1861, general Pedro Santana asked queen Isabella II of Spain to retake control of the Dominican Republic, after a period of only 17 years of independence. Spain, which had not come to terms with the loss of its American colonies 30 years earlier, accepted his proposal and made the country a colony again.
	1795–1809	Flag of the Saint-Domingue	The tricolour flag of the French First Republic. France came to own the whole island by the Treaty of Basel, as Spain ceded Santo Domingo as a consequence of the French Revolutionary Wars.
	1804–1809	Colonial Flag of Saint Domingue	a red field with the French Tricolor in the canton and defaced with the arms of Saint Domingue.
	1809–1813	Flag of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte	A White Banner with the coat of arms off-centred toward the hoist.
	1821–1822	Flag of Spanish Haiti	On 9 February 1822 Jean-Pierre Boyer annexed the Spanish out of the colony of Santo Domingo, which a few months before had proclaimed its independence from Spain (30 November 1821) under the name The Republica del Haiti Español. An attempt to declare its alliance to Gran Colombia, the flag was raised in the early weeks of 1822, but it was short-lived when nine weeks later Boyer had ended the republic.
	1822–1844	Flag of the Unification of Hispaniola
	1822–1844	Civil Flag of the Unification of Hispaniola
	1838–1844	Early flag of the Trinitaria	It was developed from the flag of Haiti and was added a white cross in the center. In early version, 17 white stars placed vertically along the hoist, two white stars placed above and below the cross, respectively, and 9 white stars placed vertically along the hoist.
	1838–1844	Early flag of the Trinitaria, version 2
	1838–1844	Early flag of the Trinitaria, version 3
	1844–1849	Flag of the Dominican War of Independence	It was developed from the flag of Haiti and was added a white symmetric cross.
	1849–1861	Flag of the First Dominican Republic	A crossed two-colored flag with the country's coat of arms in the center
	1905–1908	Flag of The United States	Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 45 white stars on a blue field.
	1908–1912	Flag of The United States	Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 46 white stars on a blue field.
	1912–1924	Flag of The United States	Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 48 white stars on a blue field.

See also

• Provinces of the Dominican Republic

External links

• Dominican Republic at Flags of the World