Flags of South America

International

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1996 –	Flag of the Andean Community
	1994 –	Flag of Mercosur
	2011 –	Flag of the Union of South American Nations

Date	Use	Description
1861 –	Flag of Argentina See also: List of Argentine flags	A horizontal bicolor triband of blue, white and blue with the Sun of May in the center.
1851 –	Flag of Bolivia See also: List of Bolivian flags
1889 –	Flag of Brazil See also: List of Brazilian flags
1817 –	Flag of Chile See also: List of Chilean flags	A blue square in the top hoist corner that symbolizes the sky and Pacific Ocean, with a white star in that blue square representing the planet Venus,^[1] and two stripes with the white one symbolizing the snow covered Andes and the red one symbolizing the blood spilled to achieve independence.^[2]
1861 –	Flag of Colombia See also: List of Colombian flags	A wide yellow band at the top recalls the federation of Greater Colombia. A blue band in the center represents independence. The red band at the bottom symbolizes courage.^[3]
1860 –	Flag of Ecuador See also: List of Ecuadorian flags
1966 –	Flag of Guyana See also: List of Guyanese flags
2013 –	Flag of Paraguay See also: List of Paraguayan flags
1825 –	Flag of Peru See also: List of Peruvian flags
1975 –	Flag of Suriname See also: List of Surinamese flags
1830 –	Flag of Uruguay See also: List of Uruguayan flags
2006 –	Flag of Venezuela See also: List of Venezuelan flags

Date	Use	State (status)
1976 –	Flag of Aruba	Netherlands (constituent country)
1981 –	Flag of Bonaire	Netherlands (special municipality)
1984 –	Flag of Curaçao	Netherlands (constituent country)
1999 –	Flag of the Falkland Islands	United Kingdom (overseas territory)
2015 –	Flag of French Guiana	France (overseas region and department)
1999 –	Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	United Kingdom (overseas territory)

Flags of cities with over 1 million inhabitants.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1822	Flag of the Kingdom of Brazil
	1822 – 1853	Flag of the Empire of Brazil
	1853 – 1889	Flag of the Empire of Brazil
	1889	Flag of the First Brazilian Republic
	1889 – 1960	Flag of Brazil
	1960 – 1968	Flag of Brazil
	1968 – 1992	Flag of Brazil
	1876 – 1925	Flag of the Falkland Islands
	1925 – 1948	Flag of the Falkland Islands
	1948 – 1999	Flag of the Falkland Islands
	1875 – 1906	Flag of British Guiana
	1906 – 1919	Flag of British Guiana
	1919 – 1955	Flag of British Guiana
	1955 – 1966	Flag of British Guiana
	1821 – 1822	Flag of the Protectorate of Peru
	1822	Flag of the Peruvian Republic
	1822 – 1825	Flag of the Peruvian Republic
	1836 – 1839	Flag of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation
	1992 – 1999	Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
	1959 – 1975	Flag of Suriname
	1828 – 1830	Flag of Uruguay
	1811 – 1812	Flag of the First Republic of Venezuela
	1813 – 1814	Flag of the Second Republic of Venezuela
	1817 – 1819 1859	Flag of the Third Republic of Venezuela
	1830 – 1836	Flag of the State of Venezuela
	1836 – 1859	Flag of the State of Venezuela
	1859 – 1863	Flag of the Republic of Venezuela
	1863 – 1905	Flag of the United States of Venezuela
	1905 – 1930	Flag of the United States of Venezuela
	1930 – 2006	Flag of Venezuela

↑ Guaquil, Rodolfo Manzo (5 May 2018). Los verdaderos emblemas de la República de Chile: 1810-2010 (in Spanish). p. 23. Otro aspecto importante en la bandera es la estrella de cinco puntas e inclinada que representa a la wünelfe, nombre que con que los indígenas mapuches asignaban al planeta Venus...
↑ "The CIA World Factbook". Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
↑ Complete Flags of the World (5th ed.). DK. 2009. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-7566-4115-3.

Flags of the Americas
Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saba Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands
North America Central America Caribbean South America

Flags of South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands