List of municipal flags of the Netherlands

Thus, the flag is not granted by the king, as is the case with the coat of arms.

It is customary in the Netherlands for a municipal flag entered the flag register to have the same colours as the municipal coat of arms, unless there are good reasons to deviate from this, for example when historical research has shown that the original colours of the municipal coat of arms are different from the colours in which the coat of arms was granted.

Many of these logo flags have no official status because they are not adopted by the municipal council.

[3] As early as the Middle Ages, cities had their own flags and banners.

They usually consisted of strips of fabric sewn together in the distinctive colours for the city.

Historically, flags were carried at sea since the 16th century, by which boaters could recognise their town or regional counterparts.

Municipalities that were home to fishing in the North Sea fishery were asked by the King's Commissioner in 1857 to indicate which flags were flown at sea in addition to the national flag.

For the sake of compliance with the Fisheries Act, several municipalities adopted their own flags at that time.

[4] The 1938 parade flags were an extension of the flags made for all Brabantian municipalities in 1935 during a parade to mark the 750th anniversary of the North Brabantian capital 's-Hertogenbosch.

These had an identical design and were intended to promote the Brabantian flag.