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• Historical flags
• Military and rank flags
• Civil State Authorities
• Dependencies
• Regional Flags
  • Flags of Norwegian counties (fylke)
  • Flags of Norwegian municipalities
• Flags of Economic and Cultural entities

• Norway
• Clickable map of Norway

• Pre-19th Century
  • The Raven Flag (11th Century)
  • A flag reported for Bergen in 1799 (according to a French flag chart; probably erroneous)
• Nineteenth Century Flags
  • Norwegian flag proposals
    • Background and Credits
    • Norwegian flag proposals, 1814
    • Norwegian flag proposals, 1815
    • Norwegian flag proposals, 1821
    • Norwegian flag proposals, 1836
  • Norwegian flag of 1814 (civil flag; brief time of full independence 1814-1814 and first years of union 1814-1821)
  • The first independence flags (military) – 1814 (text for:)
    • War Ensign, 1814
    • Commissioning pennant, 1814
  • The first union flags – 1815 (text for:)
    • War Ensign (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Admiral (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Vice Admiral (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Rear Admiral (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Commodore (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Commander of a squadron (Norway and Sweden), 1815
    • Commissioning Pennant (Norway and Sweden), 1815
  • Norwegian Union Merchant flag of 1818
  • National war ensign, Union rank flags – 1844 (text for:)
    • Senior Admiral (Norway and Sweden), 1844
    • Admiral (Norway and Sweden), 1844
    • Commodore, commanding a squadron (Norway and Sweden), 1844
    • Commander of a detachment (Norway and Sweden), 1844
    • Commissioning Pennant (Norway and Sweden), 1844
  • Norwegian Union Flags of 1844
  • Norwegian-Swedish Union Mark and Jack, 1844-1905
  • Swedish-Norwegian Union Royal Flag, 1844-1905
  • First national rank flags – 1858 (text for:)
    • Non-commissioned officer, 1858
    • Commodore, 1858
    • Commander of a detachment, 1858
  • National Rank Flags – 1875-1901 (text for:)
    • Commander in chief, navy, 1875
    • Admiral, 1875
    • Vice Admiral, 1875
    • Rear Admiral, 1875
    • Commander of a detachment, 1875
• Twentieth Century Flags
  • National Rank Flags – 1875-1901 (text for:)
    • Minister of Defence, 1901
    • Commander in chief, army, 1901
  • 'Pure' National Rank Flags – 1905- (text for:)
    • Commodore, 1905-
    • Commander of detachment, 1905-
    • Senior Officer, 1905-?
    • Naval Pennant, 1905-
  • Coastal Artillery
  • Norwegian flags during World War II
    • Nortraship
    • Flag of Nasjonal Samling (the Norwegian nazi party)
    • Norwegian Nazi party – Hirdmarinen (text for:)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen badge
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen flag
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen Naval Jack
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen Leader
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen County leader
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen District leader
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen Troop leader
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
      • Norwegian Nazi Party – Hirdmarinen senior officer
        • Flaggenbuch image (erroneous)
    • Norwegian Nazi Party – Youth Hird (Unghirden)

• Norway Officer Rank flags
  • "Pure" National Rank Flags – since 1905
    • Commodore, 1905-
    • Commander of detachment, 1905-
    • Senior Officer, 1905-(1928?)
    • Naval Pennant, 1905-
  • Current flags of minister and Chief of Defence, Inspector Generals
    • Minister of Defence
    • Chief of Defence
  • Army:
    • Commander in Chief, Army
    • Inspector General
    • General
    • Lieutenant General
    • Major General
    • Brigidier
  • Navy:
    • Commander in Chief, Navy
    • Admiral
    • Vice Admiral
    • Rear Admiral
    • Flaggkommandør
  • Coastal Artillery
  • Air Force:
    • Commander in Chief, Air Force
    • Brigidier
• Home Guard:
  • Inspector General
• Historical rank flags
• Military unit colours
• Naval jack
• Air force roundel

• Customs (Toll)
• Royal Mail (Post)

• Bouvet Island (and Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island)
• Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Regional flags:

• Northern Norway
• Trøndeland (Imaginary: Nord- and Sør-Trøndelag)
• Vestlandet (Western Country)

County (Fylke) flags:

• Akershus
• Aust-Agder
• Buskerud
• Finnmark
• Hedmark
• Hordaland
• Møre and Romsdal (Møre og Romsdal)
• Nordland
• Nord-Trøndelag
• Oppland
• Oslo
• Rogaland
• Sogn and Fjordane (Sogn og Fjordane)
• Sør-Trøndelag
• Telemark
• Troms
• Vest-Agder
• Vestfold
• Østfold

• Colours in Norwegian heraldry
• Clickable map of Norway

Municipality flags:

Traditionally in Norway there were two types of 'kommune', 'bykommune' (city municipality) and 'herredskommune' (rural municipality). There used to be certain priviliges connected to being labeled a city (trading rights, etc.), but these are obsolete today. Since 1997 (or thereabouts) it has been the municipality council that decides whether or not they should be labeled as 'bykommune' or 'herredskommune'; before that, it was up to the king.

In Norway city limits are equal to the limits of the 'bykommune'. Because of this, in Bergen where I live, it is possible to walk 'in the city' for hours while beeing miles from the nearest inhabitated house.

Jostein Nygård, 8 May 2000

• About Norwegian municipal heraldry
• Colours in Norwegian heraldry

Editor's note: Æ, Ø and Å are the three last letters in the Norwegian alphabet, and the names are sorted accordingly.

• Agdenes
• Alta
• Austevoll
• Austrheim
• Bergen
• Berlevåg
• Bodø
• Bømlo
• Båtsfjord
• Eidfjord
• Etne
• Fedje
• Flakstad
• Fusa
• Gamvik
• Granvin
• Hadsel
• Haugesund
• Hammerfest
• Hasvik
• Jondal
• Karasjok (Karasjok, Kárásjoga)
• Kautokeino (Kautokeino, Guovdageainnu)
• Kvalsund
• Kvam
• Kvinnherad
• Lebesby
• Lindås
• Loppa
• Masfjorden
• Meland
• Modalen
• Moskenes
• Måsøy
• Nesseby (Nesseby, Unjárgga)
• Nissedal
• North Cape (Nordkapp)
• Odda
• Oslo
• Osterøy
• Porsanger
• Radøy
• Re
• Røst
• Salangen
• Samnanger
• Sortland
• Stord
• Sund
• Sveio
• Sør-Varanger
• Tana (Tana, Deanu)
• Trondheim
• Tønsberg
• Ullensvang
• Ulvik
• Vadsø
• Vaksdal
• Vardø
• Vestvågøy
• Voss
• Værøy
• Vågan
• Ørskog
• Åsnes

Cultural/Economic flags:

• Sami People

• Houseflags of Norwegian ferry companies
• Houseflags of Norwegian maritime shipping companies
  • Bona Shipholding
  • Color Line
  • Continental Ship Management
  • Fred Olsen Line
  • Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane
  • I.M. Skaugen, ASA
  • Ivaran Lines, OS
  • Leif Hoegh & Co.
  • Martin Olsen
  • Nomadic Shipping, OS
  • Nortraship
  • Norwegian American Line
  • Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab ASA
  • Sundbusserne (running Swedish flag from September 2001)
  • Taubatkompaniet Boa Limited
  • Tordenskjold ASA
  • Troms Fylkes Dampskisselskap
  • Wilhelmsen Lines
  • Western Bulk Shipping
• Naval jack – with information on jacks on civil vessels too
• Pilot flags
• Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue – Norsk Selskab til Skipbrudnes Redning
• Norwegian Yacht Clubs

• Nynorsk language movement
• Norwegian Political Parties

• Nordic Council
• Norden