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An ethnic flag is a flag that symbolizes a certain ethnic group. Ethnic flags are often introduced to the ethnic community through the respective cultural or political ethnic movements. An ethnic flag can be either recognized or not by the central government.

They are popular among ethnic minorities and some ethnic majorities, especially in multi-ethnic countries.

Some ethnic flags are banned by the central governments of a nation because they also serve as the flags of separatist groups, or groups perceived as such by the prevailing authorities.

The national flags of nations and flags of provinces or autonomous areas that are overwhelmingly composed of a single ethnic group, or that are set up specifically as a homeland for a certain ethnic group, are shown as being the ethnic flag of that people.

Contents 1 Africa and Southwestern Eurasia 1.1 Afro-Asiatic 1.1.1 Cushitic 1.1.2 Berber 1.1.3 Egyptian 1.1.4 Semitic 1.2 Mediterranean 1.3 Niger-Congolian (Niger-Congo) 1.4 Nilo-Saharan 1.5 Indo-European [6] 2 Americas 2.1 African-Americans 2.2 Amerindians (Native-Americans) 2.2.1 Na-Dene 2.2.2 Amerind 2.2.2.1 (Anglo-America) 2.2.2.2 (Central America) 2.2.2.3 (Western South America) 2.3 Asian Americans 2.4 Biracial-Americans 2.4.1 African/Amerindians (Zambos) 2.4.2 African/European-Americans (Mulattos) 2.4.3 Hispanic-Americans (Latinos) (European/Amerindians(Mestizos)) 2.5 Eskimo-Aleut 2.6 Indo-European 2.6.1 European-Americans 2.6.1.1 Euro-Franco Americans 2.6.1.2 Euro-Hispanic Americans 2.6.1.3 Euro-Lusitanic Americans 3 Australasia 3.1 Australian Aborigine 3.2 Austronesian 3.2.1 Polynesian 3.3 Indo-European 4 Central Eurasia and Northern Eurasia 4.1 Afro-Asiatic 4.1.1 Semitic 4.2 Altaic 4.2.1 Mongolic 4.2.2 Turkic 4.3 Caucasic 4.3.1 Kartvelian 4.3.2 Circassian 4.3.3 Nakho-Dagestanian 4.4 Uralic 4.4.1 Finnic 4.4.2 Lappic 4.4.3 Ugric 5 Eastern Eurasia 5.1 Altaic 5.1.1 Korean 5.2 Austroasiatic 5.2.1 Mon-Khmer 5.3 Japonic 5.3.1 Japanese 5.4 Sino-Tibetan 5.4.1 Sinitic 5.4.2 Tibeto-Burman 5.5 Tai-Kadai 6 Maritime Eurasia and Oceania 6.1 Austronesian 6.1.1 Malayan 6.1.2 Melanesian 6.1.3 Polynesian 6.2 Biracial Maritime Asians 6.2.1 Austronesian/Papuan 6.3 Papuan 7 Western Eurasia (Europe) and Southern Eurasia 7.1 Burushashki 7.2 Dravidian 7.3 Multiracial Southern Eurasians 7.3.1 Black African/Dravidian/Austronesian 7.4 Indo-European 7.4.1 Albanian 7.4.2 Armenian 7.4.3 Balkan 7.4.4 Baltic 7.4.5 Celtic 7.4.6 Hellenic 7.4.7 Indo-Aryan 7.4.8 Iranic 7.4.9 Romance 7.4.9.1 Aragonese 7.4.9.2 Aromanian 7.4.9.3 Daco-Romanian 7.4.9.4 Franco-Provençal 7.4.9.5 French 7.4.9.6 Iberian 7.4.9.7 Italian 7.4.9.8 Occitan 7.4.9.9 Padanian 7.4.9.10 Rhaetian 7.4.9.11 Southern Romance 7.4.10 Slavic 7.4.10.1 East Slavic 7.4.10.2 West Slavic 7.4.10.3 South Slavic 7.4.11 Germanic 7.4.11.1 English 7.4.11.2 Frisian 7.4.11.3 Dutch 7.4.11.4 German 7.4.11.5 Scandinavian 7.5 Vasconian 8 Notes 9 See also 10 References 11 External links 11.1 Afro-Asiatic 11.2 Niger-Congo 11.3 Altaic 11.4 Ainu 11.5 Austroasiatic 11.6 Austronesian 11.7 Dravidian 11.8 Indo-European 11.9 References for external links

[edit] Africa and Southwestern Eurasia

[edit] Afro-Asiatic

[edit] Cushitic

Ethnic Somalis (Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya) ("Greater Somalia")	Ethnic Somalis (in Kenya)[1]
Oromos of Ethiopia (Oromia, Ethiopia) (non-secessionist)	Ethnic Oromos (divided between Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia) (secessionist)[2]

[edit] Berber

Berbers (Algeria)[3]

[edit] Egyptian

Copts (Egypt)

[edit] Semitic

Hebrews (Israel)/Jews (Israel, United States, France, and many other nations (see Jewish diaspora))	Druze (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan)
Arabs (traditional) (Flag of the Arab revolt) (Arab states)	Arabs (contemporary) (Flag of the Arab League) (Arab states)	Palestinian Arabs (Palestine)	Khuzestani Arabs (Khuzestan, Iran)
Assyrians (Middle East)	Chaldeans (Middle East)	Aramaic-Syriacs (Middle East)

[edit] Mediterranean

Maltese (Malta)

[edit] Niger-Congolian (Niger-Congo)

Ashanti (Ghana)[4]	Flag of Ewe (Ghana, Togo, Benin)	Ogoni (Nigeria)
Bubi (non-secessionist) (Equatorial Guinea)	Bubi (secessionist) (Equatorial Guinea)	Bakonjo (Uganda)[5]
Bamileke (Cameroon)	Chewa (Malawi)
Basotho (Lesotho and South Africa)	Swazi (Swaziland, South Africa, and Mozambique)

[edit] Nilo-Saharan

Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania)

Fur (Darfur, Sudan)

Dinka (Southern Sudan)

[edit] Indo-European ^[6]

Afrikaners (Boers) (South Africa)

Anglo-Africans (South Africa)[7]

[edit] Americas

[edit] African-Americans

Flag of African-Americans[8] (United States)

[edit] Amerindians (Native-Americans)

See also:

• Flags of Aboriginal peoples of Canada
• Flags of Native Americans in the United States

[edit] Na-Dene

Navajo (Arizona, New Mexico & Utah, United States)

Haida (British Columbia, Canada)

[edit] Amerind

[edit] (Anglo-America)

Cherokees (Oklahoma, United States)	Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States)	Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (Iowa, United States)
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation (Montana, United States)	Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Montana, United States)	Crow Tribe (Montana, United States)
Iroquois (New York, United States)	Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota, United States)	Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation (Wyoming, United States)
Mi'kmaq (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec, Canada and Maine, United States)	Natuaqanek (Eel Ground) First Nation of the Mi'kmaq (New Brunswick, Canada)

[edit] (Central America)

Flag of Maya (Mexico, Guatemala)

Flag of the Jatibonicu Taíno Tribal Nation of Borikén (Puerto Rico)

[edit] (Western South America)

Flag of the indigenous peoples in Colombia	Kuna (Panama, Colombia)
Flag of the Quechua [9](Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)	Flag of the Aymara (Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina)	Mapuche (Chile, Argentina )

[edit] Asian Americans

Vietnamese Americans (United States)

[edit] Biracial-Americans

[edit] African/Amerindians (Zambos)

Garifuna (Honduras, Belize, Guatemala)

[edit] African/European-Americans (Mulattos)

Mulattos (United States, Hispanic America, Brazil) .[10][11][12]

[edit] Hispanic-Americans (Latinos) (European/Amerindians(Mestizos))

[edit] Eskimo-Aleut

Inuit people of Greenland (Greenland)

Inuit people of Nunavut (Nunavut, Canada)

[edit] Indo-European

[edit] European-Americans

[edit] Euro-Franco Americans

• Flags of French-speaking people of North America

Quebecois, Canada

Cajun flag[8] (United States)

[edit] Euro-Hispanic Americans

Cross of Burgundy flag used by Criollos (Euro-Hispanic Americans (including White Hispanic and Latino Americans of the United States)) (Majority in Argentina, Uruguay, and Costa Rica and significant minority in Chile, Bolivia and other Hispanic nations) (Hispanic America and United States)[13]

[edit] Euro-Lusitanic Americans

Euro-Lusitanic Americans (Brazil) [14]

[edit] Australasia

[edit] Australian Aborigine

[edit] Austronesian

[edit] Polynesian

Maori (New Zealand)

[edit] Indo-European

Anglo-Australian (Australia)[15]

Anglo-New Zealander (New Zealand)[16]

[edit] Central Eurasia and Northern Eurasia

[edit] Afro-Asiatic

[edit] Semitic

Jews of Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia)

[edit] Altaic

[edit] Mongolic

Mongolians (Mongolia, and Inner Mongolia, China)	Buryats (Buryatia, Russia)
Kalmyks (Kalmykia, Russia)

[edit] Turkic

Balkarian People (Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)	Bashkirs (Russia)
Turks (Turkey)	Azeris (Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey)
Turkmenis (Turkmenistan)	Uzbekis (Uzbekistan)
Kazaks (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China)	Kyrgyz (Kirgyzstan, Uzbekistan, China)
Iraqi Turkmens (Iraq)	Crimean Tatars (Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkey)
Tatars of Belarus	Bulgarian Turks (Bulgaria, Turkey)
Meskhetian Turks (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia)	Gagauz people (Moldova)
Tuvans (Tuva, Russia)	Tatars (Tatarstan, Russia)
Chuvashians (Chuvashia, Russia)	Kumyks (Dagestan, Russia)
Nogais (Dagestan, Russia, Turkey)	Sakhas (Yakuts) (Sakha, Russia)
Khorasan Turkmens (Iran)	Turks in Germany (Germany)

[edit] Caucasic

[edit] Kartvelian

Georgians (Georgia)

Ajarians (Georgia, Ajaria, Turkey)

[edit] Circassian

Abkhazians (Abkhazia, Turkey)

Abazins (Russia, Turkey)

Adyghe Cherkess ( Adyghea, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Turkey and Middle East)

[edit] Nakho-Dagestanian

Chechens (Chechnya, Russia, Turkey)

Ingush (Ingushetia, Russia, Turkey)

Lezgins (Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Russia)

[edit] Uralic

[edit] Finnic

Finns (Finland)	Estonians (Estonia)	Erzya people (Russia)	Ingrian Finns (Russia)
Karelians (Russia)	Veps (Russia)	Votes (Russia)	Livonians (Latvia)

[edit] Lappic

Sami people[17] (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia)

[edit] Ugric

Hungarians (Hungary and Transylvania, Romania)

Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania

[edit] Eastern Eurasia

[edit] Altaic

[edit] Korean

Korean people (Korea)

[edit] Austroasiatic

[edit] Mon-Khmer

Cambodians (Kampucheans) (Cambodia)

Khmer Kampuchea Krom (Vietnam)

Vietnamese (Vietnam)

[edit] Japonic

[edit] Japanese

Japanese (Japan)

[edit] Sino-Tibetan

[edit] Sinitic

Han (traditional)(China) This flag actually represents the five major peoples of China: Han Chinese (red), shown as the central unifying group uniting tibetans (black), mongols (blue), manchus (yellow), and hui (white)	Han of Qing DynastyThe dragon is an ancient symbol of the Han people; however, the Chinese Empire was ruled by Manchus when this flag was in use.	Han of Taiwan
Cantonese Han of Hong Kong	Cantonese Han of Macau

[edit] Tibeto-Burman

Burmese people (Burma)	Bodo people (India)	Bnei Menashe (India, Myanmar)
Ladakhis (Ladakh, Kashmir, India)

[edit] Tai-Kadai

Thais (Thailand)	Akha (Thailand)	Laotians (Laos)	Li and Miao (Hainan, China)

[edit] Maritime Eurasia and Oceania

[edit] Austronesian

[edit] Malayan

Filipinos (Philippines)

Acehnese people (Aceh, Indonesia)

South Moluccan Christians (Maluku, Indonesia)

[edit] Melanesian

Kanaks[18] (New Caledonia)

[edit] Polynesian

Rapanui (Easter Island)

Maori (New Zealand)

Tahitians (Tahiti, French Polynesia)

[edit] Biracial Maritime Asians

[edit] Austronesian/Papuan

East Timorese (East Timor)

[edit] Papuan

East Papuans (East Papua)

[edit] Western Eurasia (Europe) and Southern Eurasia

[edit] Burushashki

Hunzas (Hunza, Pakistan)

[edit] Dravidian

Tamils (Tamil Nadu, India and Sri Lanka (Eelam) )

[edit] Multiracial Southern Eurasians

[edit] Black African/Dravidian/Austronesian

Chagossians (British Indian Ocean Territory, Mauritius)

[edit] Indo-European

[edit] Albanian

Albanians (Albania, Serbia, Macedonia and Italy)

Ashkali (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia)

[edit] Armenian

Armenians (Armenia, Azerbaijan)

[edit] Balkan

Pomaks (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey)

[edit] Baltic

Lithuanians (Lithuania)

Latvians (Latvia)

[edit] Celtic

Irish (Ireland and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)	Scots (Scotland, United Kingdom)	Welsh (Cymry) (Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom)
Manx (Isle of Man, United Kingdom)	Cornish (Cornwall, United Kingdom) [17]	Bretons (Brittany, France)[17]

[edit] Hellenic

Ethnic Greeks (Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, Albania)	Greeks of Northern Epirus	Greek Macedonians of Macedonia (Greece, Macedonia)
Greek Cypriots

[edit] Indo-Aryan

Nepalis (Nepal)	East Bengalis (Bangladesh)
East Punjabis (Khalistanis) (East Punjab, India)
Sindhis (Muslim) (Sindh, Pakistan)[19]	Rajasthani Hindis (Rajasthan, India)
Marathis (Maharashtra, India)[20][21]
Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)	Maldivians (Maldives)
Roma people[17] (most European countries, Brazil)

[edit] Iranic

Persian people (Iran)	Zazas (Turkey)	Kurds (Kurdistan, divided among Iraq, Iran, and Turkey)
Tajikis (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and China)	Pashtun people (Afghanistan and Pakistan)	Pashtuns of Waziristan (Pakistan)
Ossetians (South Ossetia and North Ossetia-Alania, Russia)	Talysh people (Azerbaijan, Iran)

[edit] Romance

[edit] Aragonese

Aragonese (Spain)

[edit] Aromanian

Aromanians (Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria)

[edit] Daco-Romanian

Romanians, (Romania and Moldova)

Moldovans, (Moldova and Romania)

[edit] Franco-Provençal

Arpitanians (Italy, France, and Switzerland)

Savoyans (Italy and France)

[edit] French

Ethnic French (France, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland)

Walloons (Wallonia, Belgium)

Norman French (Normandy, France)

[edit] Iberian

Spaniards and Criollos (Spain , United States and Hispanic America)	Castilians (Spain)	Andalusians (Spain)
Balearians (Spain)	Cantabrians (Spain)	Canarians (Canary Islands)
Asturians(Spain)	Leonese (Spain)	Catalans (Andorra, France and Spain)

Valencians (Spain)

Galicians (Galicia, Spain)

Portuguese (Portugal)

[edit] Italian

Ethnic Italian (Italy, San Marino,Istrian, Dalmatian and Switzerland)	Napolitans (Naples, Italy)	Sicilians (Italy)	Salentino (Salento, Italy)
Istrians (Istria, Croatia)	Tuscanians (Tuscany, Italy)	Umbrians (Umbria, Italy)	Marche (Marche, Italy)

[edit] Occitan

Occitanians (Provencals) (France, Italy, Spain and Monaco)

[edit] Padanian

Padanians (general), (Padania, Italy)
Lombardians, (Lombardy)	Venetians, (Venice, Italy])	Ligurians (Liguria, Italy)	Piedmontese (Piedmont, Italy)
Emiliano (Emilia, Italy)	Romagnolo (Romagna, Italy)	Insubrians (Insubria, Italy)

[edit] Rhaetian

Ladin (Italy)

Friulians (Friuli, Italy)

Grishuns (Switzerland)

[edit] Southern Romance

Corsicans (Corsica, France)

Sardinians (Italy)

[edit] Slavic

[edit] East Slavic

Ethnic Russians (Great Russians) (Russia and Ukraine)	Belarussians (White Russians) (Belarus)	Ukrainians (Ukraine)
Rusyns (Carpathian Ruthenia,Ukraine)

[edit] West Slavic

Czechs (Czech Republic)	Moravians (Moravia, Czech Republic)	Slovaks (Slovakia)
Poles (Poland)	Silesians (Silesia, Poland-Czech Republic)	Kashubians[17] (Poland)
Sorbs[18] (Germany)

[edit] South Slavic

Slovenians (Slovenia, Italy)	Croatians (Croatia)	Montenegrins (Montenegro)
Bosniacs (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Bosnian Croats (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Serbs (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia)
Bulgarians (Bulgaria)	Slavic Macedonians (Republic of Macedonia)

[edit] Germanic

[edit] English

English (England)

[edit] Frisian

Frisians (Netherlands, Germany)

West Frisians (Netherlands)

East Frisians (Germany)

North Frisians (Germany)

[edit] Dutch

Dutch (Netherlands, Belgium)

Flemish (Belgium)

[edit] German

German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland etc.)

Tyroleans (South Tyrol, Italy)

Alsatians (Alsace, France)

Germans of Northern Schleswig (Denmark)

[edit] Scandinavian

Swedes (Sweden)	Finland-Swedes (Finland)	Danes (Denmark)	Danes of Southern Schleswig (Germany)
Danes of Greenland (Greenland)	Norwegians (Norway)	Orkney Islanders (Scotland)	Shetland Islanders (Scotland)
Faroese (Faroes, Denmark)	Icelanders (Iceland)

[edit] Vasconian

Basques (Spain and France)

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Flags of unrecognized states
• Flags of formerly independent states
• Flags of subnational entities
• Flags of micronations
• Flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements
• List of cultural flags
• Rainbow flag
• Vexillology

[edit] References

• Znaimerowski, Alfred (2001). The World Encyclopedia of Flags. London: Hermes House.

[edit] External links

[edit] Afro-Asiatic

Chadic

• Hausa ethnic flag: Hausa (Northern Nigeria, Nigeria and Southeastern Niger)

Berber

• Tuareg ethnic flag: Tuaregs (Algeria, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Burkina Faso)

[edit] Niger-Congo

• Yoruba ethnic flags (two versions—one blue and one red, green, and black): Yorubas (Southern Nigeria, Nigeria)
• Kongo ethnic flag: Kongo (Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Gabon)
• Zulu ethnic flag: Zulus (Kwazulu, South Africa)
• Xhosa ethnic flag: Xhosas (Eastern Cape, South Africa)

[edit] Altaic

Mongolic

• Hazara ethnic flag: Hazara people (Hazarajat, Afghanistan)^[1]

[edit] Ainu

• Ainu ethnic flag: Ainu (Hokkaido, Japan and Sakhalin, Russia)}}

[edit] Austroasiatic

Munda

• Munda ethnic flag: Mundas (Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh, and Orissa, India)

[edit] Austronesian

Malayan

• Javanese ethnic flag (Two versions: gold and red): Javanese (Indonesia)
• Ethnic flag of the Javanese of the Autonomous Sultanate of Yogyakarta: Javanese of the Autonomous Sultanate of Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
• Balinese ethnic flag: Balinese (Bali, Indonesia) ^[2]

Polynesian

• Native Hawaiians: Native Hawaiians (Hawaii, United States)

[edit] Dravidian

• Kannada ethnic flag: Kannadas (Karnataka, India)
• Malayalam ethnic flag: Malayalams (Kerala, India)
• Telugu ethnic flag: Telugus (Andhra Pradesh, India)

[edit] Indo-European

Indo-Aryan

• Hindi ethnic flag: Hindis (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Haryana, India) ^[3][4][5]
• Ethnic flag of the Hindis of Bihar: Biharis (Bihar, India) ^[6]
• West Bengali ethnic flag: West Bengalis (West Bengal, India)
• Gujarati ethnic flag: Gujaratis (Gujarat, India)
• Assamese ethnic flag: Assamese (Assam, India)
• Oriya ethnic flag: Oriyas (Orissa, India)
• Hindu Sindhi flag: Sindhis (Hindu)

Iranic

• Persian ethnic flag: Persians, Iran^[7][8]
• Baluchi flag: Baluchis (Baluchistan, divided among Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran)

[edit] References for external links

• Media related to Flags of ethnic groups at Wikimedia Commons

1. ^ Note: Although the Hazara speak a dialect of Persian, genetic analysis has shown they are primarily of Mongol origin, with some Turkic admixture (See article on the Hazara people for references.).
2. ^ The colors red, white, and blue on the Balinese ethnic flag represent respectively the Hindu deities Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
3. ^ Note: the Hindi ethnic flag is used as the national flag of the imaginary nation of “Bharatij Samrazj” in the Ill Bethisad alternate universe timeline wiki, linked to above.
4. ^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas, Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism (New York University Press, 1998, hardcover: ISBN 0-8147-3110-4, paperback: ISBN 0-8147-3111-2 Plate 3, between Pages 80 and 81, shows a picture of the Hindi ethnic flag (“Pan Hindu National Flag”)
5. ^ Swastika@Everything2.com
6. ^ Note: the Bihari ethnic flag is used as the national flag of the imaginary nation of “Ajodhja” in the Ill Bethisad alternate universe timeline.
7. ^ The flag displayed above is that of the Safavid Dynasty 1577-1665:
8. ^ Flags of Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736: