Flag of Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Use	National flag
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	January 31, 1946 (1946-01-31)
Design	Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white and red, charged with a gold-bordered red star in the center
Designed by	Đorđe Andrejević-Kun
Variant flag of Yugoslavia
Use	Civil and state ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	March 21, 1950 (1950-03-21)
Design	Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white and red, with a gold-bordered red star at the flag's center
Variant flag of Yugoslavia
Use	Naval ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	June 6, 1949 (1949-06-06)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Name	Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Use	Civil and state ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	1918
Design	Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white and red
Name	National flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Use	National flag
Proportion	2:3
Traditional flag with the coat of arms
Name	War flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Use	War flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	1922
Design	Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white and red, with coat of arms near the staff side of the flag

The flag of Yugoslavia was the official flag of the Yugoslav state from 1918 to 1992. The flag's design and symbolism are derived from the Pan-Slavic movement, which ultimately led to the unification of the Southern Slavs and the creation of a united south-Slavic state in 1918.

The design of the flag was three equal horizontal bands of blue, white, and red. The flag was first used by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1943. A red star was placed in its center by the victorious Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and was used until the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Today, the flag still holds meaning to those nostalgic of Yugoslavia.

The flag of Yugoslavia is a horizontal tricolour of blue (top), white (middle) and red (bottom). The design and colours are based on the Pan-Slavic flag adopted at the Pan-Slavic Congress of 1848, in Prague. Following the end of the First World War in 1918, the Southern Slavs united into a single unitary state of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as Yugoslavia. The monarchy selected the pan-Slavic design to symbolize the new founded unity of all Southern Slavs. The design consisted of a simple horizontal tricolour with three equal bands of blue (top), white (middle) and red (bottom). Following the end of the Second World War and the ousting of the monarchy in 1945, the new communist government retained the design of the flag but with an addition of a red star with yellow border in its center. The flag remained in use until the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.