Nordic Cross flags

Nordic Cross Flag, Nordic Cross, Scandinavian Cross is a pattern of flags usually associated with the flags of the Scandinavian countries of which it originated. All the Nordic countries have adopted such flags. The cross design symbolises Christianity and is depicted extending to the edges of the flag with the vertical part of the cross shifted to the hoist side as opposed to flags where the cross is centred on the flag (known as a Greek cross).

Kalmar Union and pan-Nordic organisations

Reconstruction of the Flag of the Kalmar Union Kalmar Union; Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1397–1523)

Flag of the Nordisk Flaggsallskap or Nordic Flag Society ([3] [4])

Ship flag from the Kalmar Union period, featuring a Nordic cross and the arms of the constituent kingdoms

Nordic national flags / Nordiska nationalflaggor

Flag of Denmark

Flag of Finland

Flag of Iceland

Flag of Norway

Flag of Sweden

Nordic flags of autonomous regions / Nordiska flaggor för självstyrande regioner

Flag of the Faroe Islands

Flag of Åland

Proposal for Flag of Greenland, designed in 1984 by Sven Tito Achen. Rejected in favour of non-Nordic-Cross Flag

Denmark / Danmark

Flag of Denmark

State Flag of Denmark

Royal Standard of Denmark

Naval Flag of Denmark. Note the very dark knaprød colour.

18th Century Flag of Mourning

Unofficial Flag of Bornholm (Commonly Used)

Proposal for Flag of Jutland, designed by artist Per Kramer^[1] (actual use is not recorded)

Another Proposal for Flag of Jutland, dating from 1972 (not in use)

Proposed Flag of Vendsyssel (not commonly used)

Proposed flag of Vendsyssel (not commonly used)

Finland / Finland

Flag of Finland

State Flag of Finland

War Flag and Naval Ensign of Finland.

Flag of the President of Finland, with the Cross of Liberty in the canton.

Flag used by Finnish yacht clubs. Club insignia goes in the canton.

Unofficial Flag of Swedish-Speaking Finns.

Iceland / Ísland

Flag of Iceland

State Flag of Iceland

Flag of the President of Iceland

Flag of the Icelandic Customs Service

Former Unofficial Flag of Iceland (ca. 1900)

Proposal for Flag of Iceland, designed in 1914 by Magnús Þórðarson

Norway / Norge

Flag of Norway 1821-1844 and since 1899.

State Flag of Norway since 1899, War flag since 1905.

Flag of Norway 1814-1821.

The Common State and War Flag of Sweden and Norway from 1815 to 1844.

Flag of Norway 1844-1898.

State Flag of Norway 1844-1898, War Flag 1844-1905

Flag of Norwegian Fascist Party Nasjonal Samling 1933-1945

Sweden / Sverige

Flag of Sweden

Naval Ensign of Sweden

Royal Standard of Sweden with the Greater Coat of Arms, used by the King of Sweden

Royal Standard of Sweden with the Lesser coat of Arms (the Royal House using the Greater Coat of Arms)

Former Flag of Sweden representing the Union with Norway (1844-1905)

Unofficial Flag of the Finnish-Speaking Swedes

Flag of Skåneland or Scania (Southern Sweden)

Unofficial Flag of Gotland

Unofficial Flag of Hälsingland

Unofficial Flag of Härjedalen

Unofficial Flag of Småland

Unofficial Flag of Västergötland^[2]

Flag of Norrland

Unofficial Flag of Öland

Unofficial Flag of Östergötland

Unofficial Flag of Västsverige (West Sweden) designed by Per Andersson in 1990

Catholic Cathedral of Stockholm

Unofficial Flag of Bohuslän

Nordic Cross flags of Germany / Nordiska Korsflaggor i Tyskland

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1871–1892 (War Flag of the Imperial Army)

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1892–1903

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1903–1918 (–1921)

Proposed War Flag of 1919 (never used)

War Flag of NS-Germany (1935–1945), now forbidden in Germany

Flag of the former Saar Protectorate (1947–1956) (Saarland, Germany)

Proposed National flag of Germany, circa 1919.

Proposed National flag of Germany by the German Resistance, circa 1944.

Proposed National flag of Germany by the Christian Democratic Union, circa 1948.

Civil flag of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg from 1774 to 1919

Nordic Cross flags of Great Britain / Nordiska Korsflaggor för Storbritannien

English: Nordic cross flags in England and Scotland are used to allude to a Norse heritage; some, like the flags of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Caithness, Orkney and Shetland, have some official recognition.