+16 Blue and Red Flags: Colors, Symbols and Designs

Chimborazo

Chimborazo is a province of Ecuador. Its flag has red above blue in equal horizontal bands, with the provincial arms in the center. The layout appears in the province’s official planning document.

The province shares its name with the volcano Chimborazo.

Gliwice

The flag of Gliwice, Poland, has blue above red. The city’s shield sits toward the fly, the edge farthest from the flagpole. The shield combines a golden half-eagle on blue with a white tower on red.

Province of Lugo

The province of Lugo is in Galicia, northwestern Spain. Its capital is the city of Lugo. Blue fills the upper half of the provincial flag, with red below.

The provincial emblems add a chalice, angels, a tower and lions. Gold and white stand out against the blue and red. The Galician local-government directory describes these symbols.

Venlo

A gold lion and anchor help distinguish Venlo’s flag from a plain red-and-blue bicolor. The lion occupies the upper red band near the hoist. The anchor sits in the lower blue band. Venlo is a city and municipality in Limburg, in the Netherlands.

Wodzisław Śląski

Wodzisław Śląski’s flag and arms combine a golden half-eagle with half of a golden rose and small green leaves. Blue fills the hoist side. Red fills the other half. The color divide runs up and down, unlike Gliwice’s horizontal bands.

Wojkowice

Wojkowice’s flag has a large red upper area and a smaller light-blue area below. A wavy boundary separates them. There’s no central shield in the version shown, so the wave itself is the detail to look for.

Prudnik

A red upper band sits above a blue lower band on Prudnik’s flag. The city’s arms sit toward the lower fly, showing a gate, red towers and a golden eagle against blue.

Szczecin

Count the stripes first: Szczecin has six equal horizontal bands, alternating red and blue, with red at the top. A crowned red griffin’s head appears on a blue shield near the hoist.

Oldenburg: regional cross flag

A red cross reaches every edge of this blue flag. Its upright bar sits closer to the hoist in a Nordic cross layout.

This is the regional flag associated with the former state of Oldenburg in Germany. It is still used by the Oldenburgische Landschaft. The city of Oldenburg has different municipal colors: gold and red.

Paris

Paris places blue at the hoist and red at the fly. The illustrated version adds the city arms, with a ship, fleurs-de-lis and surrounding decorations. The white ship and gold details occupy much less space than the two background colors.

Guam

Guam is a U.S. territory. Its flag has a deep-blue field with a red border and a pointed oval at the center. The central emblem contains a sailing canoe, a palm tree and an island scene, with GUAM in red letters.

Chorzów

Chorzów, Poland, uses a plain horizontal bicolor: blue above red. There is no coat of arms on the flag shown on the municipal symbols page.

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein’s national flag has two equal horizontal bands, blue above red. A gold crown sits near the hoist in the blue band.

Haiti

Haiti also places blue above red. On the version with the national arms, a white panel in the center contains a palm tree, flags and other emblems. Those details add green, gold and white to the main bicolor.

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. For other designs where white appears alongside the two main colors, compare our red, white and blue flags.

Cotopaxi

Plain two-color version of the provincial flag.

Cotopaxi is another Ecuadorian province with red above blue. The provincial government describes equal bands with the provincial arms in the center.

Its band order matches Chimborazo’s. On versions with arms, the central emblems distinguish the two provinces.

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic: historical flag

This is a historical Soviet-era flag, not the current national flag of Georgia. A light-blue horizontal stripe crosses a red field. At the upper hoist, a blue canton contains a red sunburst around a hammer and sickle, with a star above.

The design was adopted in 1951. Today, Georgia uses a red and white flag with five crosses.

Which blue and red flag did you see?

Start with the layout, then check the smaller details:

Vertical halves: compare Paris with Wodzisław Śląski.
Blue above red: look for Liechtenstein’s crown, Haiti’s white panel or Chorzów’s plain bands.
A frame or cross: Guam has a red border; Oldenburg has an offset red cross.