DesignMid-Lake Pavilion of Taichung Park on the middle. "TAICHUNG" and "臺中" on the bottom.
Flag of Taichung
Adopted
August 26, 2025
Design
Mid-Lake Pavilion of Taichung Park on the middle. "TAICHUNG" and "臺中" on the bottom.
Flag of Taichung (Chinese:臺中市市旗; pinyin:Táizhōngshì Shìqí) is a city flag representing Taichung City, Taiwan. The current flag was adopted on August 26, 2025.[1][2]
A red text "臺中市" on the middle of yellow background
The flag of Taichung used to featured a yellow background with red text of the city's name ("臺中市") since its establishment in 1945, and was continued to be used after Taichung County merged with the city.[3]
The new flag's design was criticised by local media, politicians, and unofficial online voting, with some describing the flag as "the ugliest city flag in Taiwan".[3][4][5] After an online voting on PTT in 2016, the Taichung City government held an online audition for a new city flag.[6] The flag was voted on 18 February 2017. The government promised to modify its minor design before using it, but it was not used in the end.[5][7]
On August 26, 2025, the Taichung City government published the Taichung City Flag Design and Usage Guidelines (臺中市市旗制式及使用要點) and announced the new city flag. The new city flag featured a mid-lake pavilion of Taichung Park in the middle, and the city's name in Latin ("TAICHUNG") and Chinese ("臺中") on the bottom.[8][3] The Chinese text's font is designed by Xiao Shiqiong (蕭世瓊), a professor of the National Taiwan Normal University who had designed the Taichung City Hall's logo.[9]Lu Shiow-yen, then mayor of Taichung, explained that the flag can fit its government flag and minimise the cost of designing and adapting.[10] The flag costed 140,000 NTD to design.[11]
