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U.S. State Flags


The flags of the U.S. States exhibit a variety of regional influences and local histories, as well as different styles and design principles. Nonetheless, the majority of the states' flags share the same design pattern consisting of the state seal superimposed on a monochrome background, commonly a shade of blue.

The most recently adopted state flag is that of Mississippi, adopted on January 11, 2021.

Modern U.S. state flags as contemporarily understood date from the turn of the 20th century, when states wanted to have distinctive symbols at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Most U.S. state flags were designed and adopted between 1893 and World War I.

According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U.S. state, while Georgia's state flag was rated the worst design (Georgia adopted a new flag in 2003; Nebraska's state flag, whose design was rated second worst, remains in use to date).

Current State Flags

Flag of Alabama
(July 6, 1927)
Flag of Alaska
(February 16, 1895)
Flag of Arizona
(January 25, 1917)
Flag of Arkansas
(March 16, 1924)
Flag of California
(February 3, 1911)
Flag of Colorado
(March 31, 1964)
Flag of Connecticut
(September 9, 1897)
Flag of Delaware
(July 24, 1913)
Flag of Florida
(May 21, 1985)
Flag of Georgia
(February 19, 2003)
Flag of Hawaii
(December 29, 1845)
Flag of Idaho
(November 2, 1957)
Flag of Illinois
(June 27, 1969)
Flag of Maine
(June 16, 1909)
Flag of Rhode Island
(November 1, 1897)
Flag of Indiana
(May 31, 1917)
Flag of Iowa
(March 12, 1921)
Flag of Kentucky
(March 26, 1918)
Flag of Kansas
(September 22, 1961)
Flag of Louisiana
(November 22, 2010)
Flag of Michigan
(June 26, 1911)
Flag of Virginia
(February 1, 1950)
Flag of North Dakota
(March 11, 1911)
Flag of Massachusetts
(March 21, 1908)
Flag of Maryland
(November 25, 1904)
Flag of Minnesota
(August 2, 1983)
Flag of Mississippi
(January 11, 2021)
Flag of Missouri
(September 4, 1913)
Flag of Montana
(July 1, 1981)
Flag of Nebraska
(July 16, 1963)
Flag of Nevada
(July 25, 1991)
Flag of New Hampshire
(November 30, 1931)
Flag of New Jersey
(January 15, 1896)
Flag of New Mexico
(September 18, 1920)
Flag of New York
(April 1, 1901)
Flag of North Carolina
(June 24, 1991)
Flag of Ohio
(May 9, 1902)
Flag of Oklahoma
(November 1, 2006)
Flag of Oregon
(April 15, 1925)
Flag of Pennsylvania
(April 24, 1907)
Flag of South Carolina
(January 28, 1861)
Flag of South Dakota
(November 9, 1992)
Flag of Tennessee
(February 3, 1905)
Flag of Texas
(January 25, 1839)
Flag of Utah
(1913 and February 16, 2011)
Flag of Vermont
(April 17, 1923)
Flag of Washington
(March 5, 1923)
Flag of West Virginia
(November 6, 1929)
Flag of Wisconsin
(May 1, 1981)
Flag of Wyoming
(March 4, 1917)