List of flags of Kosovo
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of flags of
Kosovo
.
Flag of Kosovo
The flag of the Republic of Kosovo was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo immediately following the declaration of independence of the Republic of Kosovo from Serbia on 17 February 2008. The flag is the result of an international design competition, organized by the United Nations-backed Kosovo...
Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
.
State flag
Flag | |Use | State flag Flag of Kosovo The flag of the Republic of Kosovo was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo immediately following the declaration of independence of the Republic of Kosovo from Serbia on 17 February 2008. The flag is the result of an international design competition, organized by the United Nations-backed Kosovo... | Blue with six white stars in an arc above a gold-colored map of Kosovo in the center. Dimensions: 2:3 |
---|
Governmental flag
Flag | |Use | |
---|---|---|
Flags of Kosovo under UN administration
Flag | |Use | Kosovo Protection Corps Kosovo Protection Corps The Kosovo Protection Corps was a civilian emergency services organisation in Kosovo active from 1999 to 2009.The KPC was created on September 21, 1999 through the promulgation of UNMIK Regulation 1999/8 and the agreement of a "Statement of Principles" on the KPC's permitted role in Kosovo... | Red with a black emblem of the KPC in the centre. Dimensions: 2:3. |
---|---|---|---|
1999–Present | Kosovo Police Service Kosovo Police Service Kosovo Police is the police law enforcement agency of the Republic of Kosovo.It was created in 1999 in the aftermath of the Kosovo War and subsequent withdrawal of the Yugoslav armed forces from Kosovo.... |
White with two blue stripes, and a yellow-blue emblem of the KPS in the centre. Dimensions: 2:3. |
Historic flags
Flag | |Use | Flag of the United Nations Flag of the United Nations The flag of the United Nations was adopted on October 20, 1947, and consists of the official emblem of the United Nations in white on a blue background. The emblem's design is described as:... , used for official and government purposes in Kosovo until February 17, 2008. | |
---|---|---|---|
1991–2000 | Unofficial separatist flag | Used by the secessionist state Republic of Kosova proclaimed in 1991 by a parallel parliament representing the Ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. | |
c.1950-c.1990 | Minority flag | The flag was the official flag of the Albanian ethnic minority of Yugoslavia from the late 1940s to the late 1980s |
Flag proposals
Flag | |Use | ||
---|---|---|---|
never used | State flag | "Competition Candidate 2". Dimensions: 2:3 | |
never used | State flag | "Competition Candidate 3". Dimensions: 2:3 | |
never used | State flag | DioGuardi's proposal for a new flag of Kosovo. Dimensions: 2:3 | |
| never used | State flag | Kosovo Flag Proposal 2007 based on Albanian and UN flag. Dimensions: 2:3 | |