Historical flags of the British Empire

During the time of the British Empire the dominions, of the colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories carried their own flags, mostly under the blue ensign, although some territories and colonies did also use other ensigns for their flags.

Europe

Gibraltar

• 
  Gibraltar
• 
  Gibraltar (1882-Present)

Ionian Islands

• 
  Ionian Islands (1815-1864)

Malta

• 
  Malta
• 
  Malta (1898-1923)
• 
  Malta (1923-1943)
• 
  Malta (1943-1964)

Cyprus

• 
  Cyprus (1922-1960)

Ireland

• 
  Ireland (1801-1922) (Green Ensign)

Asia

Aden

• 
  Aden

British Straits Settlements

• 
  Straits Settlements

British Burma

• 
  British Burma (1937-1948)

Ceylon

• 
  Ceylon

Malaya

• 
  Federated Malay States (1895-1946

Hong Kong

• 
  Hong Kong (1871-1876)
• 
  Hong Kong (1876-1941) (1945-1955)
• 
  Hong Kong (1955-1959)
• 
  Hong Kong (1959-1997)

British India

• 
  British India

Labuan

• 
  Labuan (1912-1946)

Penang

• 
  Penang (1946-1949)

Malacca

• 
  Malacca (1946-1957)

North Borneo

• 
  North Borneo (1882-1941)
• 
  North Borneo (1948-1963)

Sarawak

• 
  Sarawak

Singapore

• 
  Singapore (1946-1959)
  

Weihaiwei

• 
  Weihaiwei (1898-1930)

Africa

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

• 
  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  (1899–1956)

Basutoland

• 
  Basutoland
  (1951–1966)

British Cameroons

• 
  British Cameroons
  (1922–1961)

British East Africa

• 
  British East Africa
  (1921–1963)

British East Africa

• 
  British Cameroons
  (1922–1961)

Cape Colony

• 
  Cape Colony
  (1875–1910)

The Gambia

• 
  British Gambia
  (1889-1965)

Gold Coast

• 
  British Gold Coast
  (1821–1957)

Nigeria

• 
  British Colonial Nigeria
  (1800–1960)

Lagos Colony

• 
  Lagos colony
  (1886-1906)

Northern Rhodesia

• 
  Northern Rhodesia
  (1939–1953; 1963–1964)

Southern Rhodesia

• 
  Southern Rhodesia
  (1923–1953)

Nyasaland

• 
  Nyasaland
  (1907–1953; 1963–1964)

Natal

• 
  Natal
  (1843–1910)

Orange River Colony

• 
  Natal
  (1843–1910)

Sierra Leone

• 
  Sierra Leone
  (1889–1914)

South Africa

• 
  South Africa
  (1912–1928)

Tanganyika

• 
  Tanganyika Territory
  (1919–1961)

Uganda

• 
  Uganda
  (1914–1962)

Mauritius

• 
  British Mauritius
  (1906–1923)
• 
  British Mauritius
  (1923-1968)

Americas

• 
  Bahamas
  (1869–1904)
• 
  Bahamas
  (1904–1923)
• 
  Bahamas
  (1923–1953)
• 
  Bahamas
  (1953–1964)
• 
  Barbados
  (1955–1966)
• 
  British Columbia
  (1870-1896))
• 
  British Guiana
  (1875–1906)
• 
  British Guiana
  (1954–1966)
• 
  Dominica
  (1961-1978)
• 
  Grenada
  (1903-1967)
• 
  British Honduras
  (1954–1966)
• 
  Canada
  (1868-1921)
• 
  Canada
  (1922–1957)
• 
  Canada
  (1957–1965)
• 
  Cayman Islands
  (1958–1999)
• 
  Cayman Islands
• 
  Barbados
  (1885–1958)
• 
  Barbados
  (1958–1966)
• 
  Bermuda
  (1910–1999)
• 
  Bermuda
• 
  British Guiana
  (1919–1954)
• 
  British Honduras
  (1919–1981)
• 
  Jamaica
  (1875–1906)
• 
  Jamaica
  (1906–1957)
• 
  Jamaica
  (1957–1962)
• 
  Jamaica
  (1962)
• 
  British Leeward Islands
  (1871–1956)
• 
  Montserrat
• 
  Mosquito Coast
  (1834–1894)
• 
  Saint Lucia
  (1939-1967)
• 
  Colony of Newfoundland
  (1870–1904)
• 
  Dominion of Newfoundland
  (1904–1949)
• 
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  (pre-1979)
• 
  Turks and Caicos Islands
• 
  British Virgin Islands
• 
  Vancouver Island
  (1849-1866)
• 
  British Windward Islands
  (1903–1958)

Oceania

• 
  Australia
  (1901–1903)
• 
  Australia
  (1903–1909)
• 
  Australia
  (1909–Present)
• 
  Cook Islands Federation
  (1893–1901)
• 
  Fiji
  (1924–1970)
• 
  Gilbert and Ellice Islands
  (1932–1976)
• 
  United Tribes of New Zealand
  (1834–1840)
• 
  New Zealand
  (1867–1869)
• 
  New Zealand
  (1840–1902)
• 
  New Zealand
  (1902–Present)
• 
  Territory of Papua
  (1906–1949)
• 
  Kingdom of Rarotonga
  (1888–1893)
• 
  Tuvalu
  (1976–1978)
• 
  British Solomon Islands
  (1906-1947)
• 
  British Solomon Islands
  (1947-1956)

See also

• List of British Empire-related topics