United States Flags

List of the 50 US states and their flags. Helping flashcards for memorisation.

Turquoise Background with brown diamond with a coat of arms featuring a farmer, soldier and bull. Date December 7th, 1787 at the bottom. Liberty and Independence.

Delaware (1787)

Navy blue background with a coat of arms featuring two horses, an eagle and a ship. Virtue, liberty and independence on a red banner.

Pennsylvania (1787)

Yellow background with a coat of arms featuring two women in red with a blue shield and a horse above. Liberty and prosperity and the date 1776.

New Jersey (1787)

Two red stripes and a white stripe between. A blue square on the top left with 13 stars and a yellow building.

Georgia (1788)

Navy blue background with a white shield with grapevines. Latin inscription “Qui Transtuilt Sustinet”

Connecticut (1788)

White background with blue shield featuring a native american. Banner with “Ense Petit Placidum Svb Libertate Qvietam”

Massachusetts (1788)

Divided into two quarters, one with a yellow/black patterna dn the other a cross with a red/white pattern.

Maryland (1788)

Dark blue background with a palmetto tree and a crescent on the top-left.

South Carolina (1788)

Blue background with an emblem featuring a ship

New Hampshire (1788)

Dark blue background with an emblem showing a classical woman stepping on a defeated tyrant. “Virginia Sic Semper Tyrannis”

Virginia (1788)

Two women stand around a shield with a scene of two ships in a land. Eagle mounts the earth. “Excelsior e pluribus unum”

New York (1788)

Red stripe and white stripe, and a blue rectangle with N star C surrounded by banners with dates.

North Carolina (1789)

White square with 13 stars circling around an anchor

Rhode Island (1790)

Dark blue background with an emblem featuring a tree. Vermont is on the banner below. Deer above.

Vermont (1790)

Blue background with an emblem showing two men. United we stand.

Kentucky (1792)

Red background with a thin blue stripe running vertically on the right. A blue circle in the middle with three stars.

Tennessee (1796)

Swallowtail flag with 3 red stripes and 2 white. Blue triangle with 17 stars, a red circle in white outline.

Ohio (1803)

Blue background with a large pelican with three smaller pelicans underneath it. “Union Justice Confidence”

Louisiana (1812)

19 Stars and a torch on a blue background

Indiana (1816)

Red background with a vertical dark blue rectangle in the middle. White magnolia surrounded by 21 stars

Mississippi (1817)

White background with an eagle carrying a US shield

Illinois (1818)

A white background with a red diagonal cross

Alabama (1819)

Dark blue background with a pine tree emblem surrounded by two men

Maine (1820)

Red White Blue tricolor with an emblem of two bears and 24 stars.

Missouri (1820)

Red background with a white diamond with blue outline. “Arkansas”

Arkansas (1836)

Blue background with two deers holding up a blue-yellow shield. “Circumspice”

Michigan (1837)

White background with diagonal red cross featuring an emblem

Florida (1845)

Red white rectangles, blue vertical rectangle with a lone star.

Texas (1845)

Vertical tricolor blue-white-red with an eagle carrying a blue banner

Iowa (1846)

Blue background with emblem featuring two men. WISCONSIN 1848

Wisconsin (1848)

White background with red horizontal line running down the bottom. Bear, lone red star. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC.

California (1850)

Dark blue swallowtail with light blue on the right. 8 pointed star on the left.

Minnesota (1858)

Blue background with emblem featuring yellow eagle. STATE OF OREGON and 1859.

Oregon (1859)

Blue background with colourful emblem. KANSAS.

Kansas (1861)

White background with blue outline. Emblem.

West Virginia (1863)

Blue background. Battle born. Nevada.

Nevada (1864)

Tricolor blue-white-blue. Red C filled by a yellow circle.

Colorado (1876)

Blue background with eagle.

North Dakota (1889)

Light blue background with circle emblem

South Dakota (1889)

Dark blue background with emblem

Montana (1889)

Green background with an emblem featuring George Washington

Washington (1889)

Blue background with emblem

Idaho (1890)

Blue background with white and red outlines. White bison with emblem.

Wyoming (1890)

Beehive with mountains

Utah (1896)

Blue background with two sworded emblem.

Oklahoma (1907)

Yellow background with red cross pattern

New Mexico (1912)

Blue, star and red/yellow patterns

Arizona (1912)

Dark blue background with big dipper star formation made up of 8 stars, 5 descending, 2 rising up. A bigger North Star

Alaska (1959)

8 Stripes going white, red, blue. Union Jack on the top left.

Hawaii (1959)