Flags of France - Colonial Flags

Colonial Flags

Further information: French colonial flags and French Colonial Empire

Most French colonies either used the regular tri-colour or a regional flag without the French flag. There were some exceptions:

  • Flag of French Indochina
  • Flag of Laos, in French Indochina
  • Flag of the Autonomous Republic of Togo (1957-1958)
  • Flag of Gabon (1959-1960)
  • Flag of French Tunisia
  • Flag of the French Mandate of Syria in 1920
  • Flag of the French Mandate of Syria
  • Flag of the State of Alawites, later Sanjak of Latakia, in the French Mandate of Syria
  • Flag of the State of Aleppo, in the French Mandate of Syria
  • Flag of the State of Damascus, in the French Mandate of Syria
  • Flag of Jabal ad-Druze, in the French Mandate of Syria
  • Flag of Madagascar, in the French Protectorate (1885-1895)
  • Flag of French Morocco, in the French Protectorate (1912-1956)
  • Flag of Republic of Independent Guyana (1886-1887)
  • Flag of New Hebrides (Vanuatu) under the Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission (1887-1906)
  • Flag of French Polynesia under the Protectorate of France (1845-1880)

  • Flag of the State of Greater Lebanon during the French mandate (1920–1946)

  • Flag of Cochinchina (1946–1948)

  • Flag of the French Protectorate of Wallis and Futuna (Uvea) (1860-1886)

  • Flag of the French Colony of French Sudan (1958-1959)

  • Flag of the French Saar (protectorate) (1947-1956)

  • Flag of the French protectorate of Rurutu in French Polynesia (1858-1889)

  • Flag of French Governor

  • Flag of AEF (1910-1958)

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