List of flags of North Macedonia

This is a list of flags which have been, or are still today, used on the territory of North Macedonia or by ethnic Macedonians.

North Macedonia

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1995–present	Flag of the Republic of North Macedonia (civil, state, and war flag)	A golden-yellow sun with eight rays extending to the edges of the red field.

Historical flags

Date	Use	Description
1992–1995	Flag of the Republic of Macedonia	A red flag with the yellow Vergina Sun in the middle.
1947–1991	Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Three equal horizontal fields, blue on the top, white in the middle and red on the bottom, Red star in the center.
1946–1991	Flag of the People's Republic of Macedonia (1946–1963) and Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1963–1991)	A red flag with a gold-edged red star in the canton.
1944–1946	Flag of Democratic Federal Macedonia	A red flag with a gold-edged red star in the middle of the flag.
1941–1945	Flag of Yugoslav partisan movement	Three equal horizontal fields, blue on the top, white in the middle and red on the bottom, Red star in the white field.
2.8.1903 – 12.8.1903	Flag of the Republic of Kruševo^[a]	A plain red flag. In the middle is a yellow palm crown, decorated with two shaking hands - a symbol of the people's unity, and over there is a flaming torch. Around these symbols is the slogan "Svoboda ili smart" and another inscription "Banner of the Krushevo cheta".
1920s–present^[3]^[4]	Historical flag of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) used by political parties in Bulgaria and North Macedonia until now.^[5]^[6]	Horizontal bicolor of red and black

Local flags

Date	Use	Description
15 century^{[citation needed]}	Flag of the Mijaks
15 century^{[citation needed]}	Flag of a Mijak family in Galičnik	A red rectangle and inside with a circle, a horsemen ,a horsmen with a crown, the crescent and another figure(possibly a flower)
15 century^{[citation needed]}	Mijaks wedding flag
1914	Flag of the Macedonian colony in Petrograd, Russia	A horse in a white square on a red background and a sun in the lower left corner above which there is an inscription "ONE INDEPENDENT MACEDONIA"

Municipal flags

Note: This list is incomplete.

Date	Use	Description
2012–present	Aerodrom Municipality
? – Present	Aračinovo Municipality	A red flag with the coat of arms in the middle and two thin horizontal stripes.
? – Present	Berovo Municipality	A light (sky) blue flag with red insignia in the middle.
2006–present	Bitola Municipality	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
? – Present	Bogdanci Municipality	A blue and red flag (two blue & two red cantons), with the Municipality coat-of-arms in the middle.
1996–present	Bogovinje Municipality	A red background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
1996–present	Bosilovo Municipality
	Brvenica Municipality
2010–present	Čair Municipality	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Čaška Municipality
?–2014	Municipality of Češinovo-Obleševo
	Centar Župa Municipality
	Municipality of Čučer-Sandevo	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Debar Municipality
	Debarca Municipality
	Municipality of Delčevo
?–2015	Demir Hisar Municipality
	Demir Kapija Municipality	A yellow background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Dojran Municipality
	Dolneni Municipality
?-Present	Gevgelija Municipality	A flag with a blue bar over a white bar & the coat-of-arms of the Municipality near the mast of the flag.
	Gostivar Municipality
1996–present	Ilinden Municipality	A red vertical flag with a 12-pointed sun and the letter "I" in Cyrillic (И).
	Jegunovce Municipality
	Karbinci Municipality	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Kavadarci Municipality
?–2015	Kisela Voda Municipality
2010–present	Municipality of Kočani
	Konče Municipality	A red background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
2006–present	Kratovo Municipality
2009–present	Kriva Palanka Municipality
2005–present	Karpoš Municipality	A yellow background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Municipality of Krivogaštani	A red background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Municipality of Kruševo
2002–Present	Kumanovo Municipality	A red background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Lipkovo Municipality
	Lozovo Municipality
?-Present	Makedonska Kamenica Municipality
	Makedonski Brod Municipality
	Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša
	Mogila Municipality
	Negotino Municipality
	Novaci Municipality
	Novo Selo Municipality
	Municipality of Pehčevo
	Petrovec Municipality
	Plasnica Municipality
? – Present	Prilep Municipality	A dark blue background with the municipal coat of arms, outlined in white, in the middle.
2015–present	Municipality of Probištip
2007–present	Rankovce Municipality
	Resen (municipality)	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
	Rosoman Municipality
	Skopje Municipality
	Municipality of Sopište
	Municipality of Staro Nagoričane
	Municipality of Štip	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.
?-Present	Struga Municipality	A blue vertical flag with the coat of arms in the middle.
?-Present	Strumica Municipality	A white vertical flag with the coat of arms and a blue-yellow border.
	Municipality of Studeničani
?-Present	Radoviš Municipality
2007–present	Tearce Municipality
?-Present	Tetovo Municipality	A red, black and yellow tricolor flag, the yellow one being the thickest.
	Valandovo Municipality
	Vasilevo Municipality
?-Present	Veles Municipality
?-Present	Vevchani Municipality
2007–present	Vinica Municipality	A red and blue bicolor flag with outline of Vinica Fortress and an icon.
	Municipality of Vrapčište
	Zelenikovo Municipality
1996–present	Municipality of Želino
	Zrnovci Municipality
	Šuto Orizari Municipality	A white background with the municipal coat of arms, in the middle.

Former flags of municipalities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Aračinovo Municipality
	?–2015	Kisela Voda Municipality
		Šuto Orizari Municipality

Government flags

Date	Use	Description
- present	Flag of Ministry Foreign Affairs of Republic of North Macedonia
- present	Flag of Ministry of Culture of Republic of North Macedonia
1992–present	Flag of the Army of Republic of North Macedonia
1992-2013	Flag of Ministry of Internal Affairs	A blue flag with the emblem in the middle
1992–present	Flag of Uniformed members of MIA	A blue flag with the emblem in the middle
- present	Flag of Border Police of Republic of North Macedonia	A green flag with the emblem in the middle

Universities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola

Military flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1944	Flag of the First Macedonian Brigade (WW2)	Red flag and the lower half of the flag the unit's name is written in yellow capital Cyrillic letters.
	2009–present	Flag of 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade	Red flag with the coat of arms of Macedonia on the upper left and the unit's badge on upper right and the lower half of the flag the unit's name is written in yellow capital Cyrillic letters.

Political parties flags

Flag	Date	Use
current
	2019–present	SDSM
	?–2019	SDSM
	1997–present	Liberal Democratic Party
	2020–present	Green Humane City
Link to file	2002–present	Democratic Union of the Vlachs of Macedonia
	1997–present	Albanian Democratic Party
	1992–present	Democratic Party of Turks
	1990–present	IMRO-DPMNU
former
		Dostoinstvo
	1944-1990	League of Communists of Macedonia
other
	1990s–present	Flag of the proposed Republic of Ilirida, one of the flags used by Albanian nationalists and irredentist.

Macedonian diaspora flags

Date	Use	Description
-present	Flag of the Macedonians in Serbia
-present	Flag of Macedonians in Bulgaria	The UMO Ilinden–Pirin party flag in Bulgaria.
-present	Flag of Macedonians in Greece	The Rainbow Party flag in Greece.
-present	Flag of the Macedonians in Slovenia
-present	Flag of the Macedonians in Croatia
-present	Flag of Macedonians in Argentina

Organizations flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Macedonian Herald Society	red flag with the COA of the society

Notes

^ Considered to be Bulgarian in Bulgaria.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Xисарлъшка-Танова, С. Знамената на Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903 г. — издателство: Векове, 1983, № 3, стр. 77.
^ The insurgents in Krushevo flew also Bulgarian flags everywhere. See: "Who are the Macedonians", Published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-85065-534-0, by Hugh Poulton - p. 57.
^ In an article from the Macedonian journalist Spase Shuplinovski in the Macedonian mainstream daily newspaper Utrinski vesnik - issue 1166, October 16, 2006 is described, that the flag of the Macedonian party VMRO - DPMNE was adopted from IMRO, which was established in 1920 and was banned in 1934. Archived May 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ In official speech in Macedonian Parliament in June 2008 on the occasion of the enacting a Law about the usage of the flags in Republic of Macedonia, the deputy Yani Macraduli has maintained, the red - black flag of IMRO dates (was created) during the leadership of Todor Alexandrov, i.e. - 1920s.
^ The IMRO flag is considered to be Bulgarian in Bulgaria, see: "100 years IMARO" (in Bulgarian) ISBN 954-8187-10-8, Publisher: Macedonian Scientific Institute, Authors: Professor D. Michev, Ph.D. D. Gotsev, Sofia - 1994, p. 7. Archived January 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ However, according to Academician Ivan Katardjev, Director of the Historical Sciences section in the Department of Social Sciences in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts the policy of IMRO leader in the beginning of the 1920s, Todor Alexandrov served the Bulgarian interests, see: "Утрински весник", Issue 1806, 16.10.2006 Александров изедначен со Гоце Делчев [Aleksandrov tied with Gotse Delchev]. Southeast European Times (in Macedonian). October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2008. and the policy of IMRO leader in the second half of 1920s until its ban in 1934, Ivan Mihailov, for establishment of an independent Macedonian state, meant a Macedonian state of the Bulgarians in Macedonia, see: "Утрински весник", Issue 1806, 16.10.2006.Интервју: Д-р Иван Катарџиев, Историчар [Interview: Dr. Ivan Katarjiev, Historian] (in Macedonian). Вест. March 24, 2001. Archived from the original on October 16, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2008.

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[3] Considered to be Bulgarian in Bulgaria.^[1]^[2]

[1] Xисарлъшка-Танова, С. Знамената на Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903 г. — издателство: Векове, 1983, № 3, стр. 77.

[2] The insurgents in Krushevo flew also Bulgarian flags everywhere. See: "Who are the Macedonians", Published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-85065-534-0, by Hugh Poulton - p. 57.

[4] In an article from the Macedonian journalist Spase Shuplinovski in the Macedonian mainstream daily newspaper Utrinski vesnik - issue 1166, October 16, 2006 is described, that the flag of the Macedonian party VMRO - DPMNE was adopted from IMRO, which was established in 1920 and was banned in 1934. Archived May 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[5] In official speech in Macedonian Parliament in June 2008 on the occasion of the enacting a Law about the usage of the flags in Republic of Macedonia, the deputy Yani Macraduli has maintained, the red - black flag of IMRO dates (was created) during the leadership of Todor Alexandrov, i.e. - 1920s.

[6] The IMRO flag is considered to be Bulgarian in Bulgaria, see: "100 years IMARO" (in Bulgarian) ISBN 954-8187-10-8, Publisher: Macedonian Scientific Institute, Authors: Professor D. Michev, Ph.D. D. Gotsev, Sofia - 1994, p. 7. Archived January 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[7] However, according to Academician Ivan Katardjev, Director of the Historical Sciences section in the Department of Social Sciences in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts the policy of IMRO leader in the beginning of the 1920s, Todor Alexandrov served the Bulgarian interests, see: "Утрински весник", Issue 1806, 16.10.2006 Александров изедначен со Гоце Делчев [Aleksandrov tied with Gotse Delchev]. Southeast European Times (in Macedonian). October 16, 2006. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2008. and the policy of IMRO leader in the second half of 1920s until its ban in 1934, Ivan Mihailov, for establishment of an independent Macedonian state, meant a Macedonian state of the Bulgarians in Macedonia, see: "Утрински весник", Issue 1806, 16.10.2006.Интервју: Д-р Иван Катарџиев, Историчар [Interview: Dr. Ivan Katarjiev, Historian] (in Macedonian). Вест. March 24, 2001. Archived from the original on October 16, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2008.