List of Mexican flags
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The following is a list of flags that are used in the United Mexican States and its predecessor states.
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| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1821 | Officially decreed by Agustín de Iturbide in November 1821. | Vertical stripes of green, white, and red with a crowned, standing eagle on a nopal cactus in the center. | |
| 1821–1823 | |||
| 1823–1824 | |||
| 1824–1835 | |||
| 1835–1846 | |||
| 1846–1863 | |||
| 1864–1867 | |||
| 1880–1893 | |||
| 1893–1916 | |||
| 1910 | Independence centennial. Ordered by President Porfirio Díaz. | ||
| 1910–1911 | |||
| 1916–1934 | |||
| Variant | |||
| 1934–1968 | |||
| Variant | |||
| Official | |||
| 1968–present | Civil use | Variant | |
| 1968–present | A vertical tricolor of green, white and red with the National Coat of Arms centered on the white band. |
Presidential flags
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown–present | Presidential standard of Mexico | ||
| Presidential standard at sea | |||
| Presidential standard (as supreme commander) |
Historical
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1521–1701 | Cross of Burgundy military flag of Spain used as banner of its overseas territory | ||
| 1701–1760 | Flag of the Spanish Empire | ||
| 1760–1785 | |||
| 1785–1821 | Flag used by the Spanish Empire in its territories from 1785 to 1821 | ||
| 1521–1821 | Cross of Burgundy flag used in New Spain from 1521 to 1821 | ||
| 1810 | Banner used by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810 | ||
| 1811–1812 | Flag used from 1811 to 1812 by Regimiento de la muerte (Death Regiment) after Hidalgo's death in the Independence War | ||
| 1812 | Flag used in 1812 by José María Morelos at the Independence War | ||
| 1815 | Insurgents war flag used in 1815 |
State flags
Municipality flags
Military flags
- Naval Jack
- Naval Infantry Corps
- Mexican Army
- Mexican Air Force
- Three Guarantees army flag (1820-1821)
- Iturbide's infantry (1821)
- Flag used by Mexican Royalists in 1808
- Mexican Insurgents (naval) used in 1815
- Mexican Insurgents (parliamentary) used in 1815
- Mexican Insurgents (commercial) used in 1815
Annexation
- Province of Chiapas (then part of the Federal Republic of Central America)
Political flags
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current | |||
| 2006–present | Nationalist Front of Mexico | ||
| 1937–present | National Synarchist Union | ||
| Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus | |||
| Former | |||
| 1905–1918 | Mexican Liberal Party | ||
| Other | |||
| 1994–present | Zapatista Army of National Liberation | ||
| 1996–present | Popular Revolutionary Army | ||
| 2009–2014 | Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution | ||
| 1931–1935 | Red Shirts | ||
| 1933–1936 | Revolutionary Mexicanist Action | The flag depicts a shield (chīmalli) with fringes crossed by a macana (macuahuitl). Four crescents and cotton (ichcatl) representing agriculture. | |
| 1926–1929 | Flag used by the Cristeros during the Cristero War | ||
Native American flags
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yucatec Maya people | |||
| Otomi people | |||
| Pima people | |||
| Rarámuri people | |||
| Seri people | |||
| Yaqui people | |||
| Tzotzil people | |||
| Zapotec peoples |