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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
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Kingdom of Norway


National flags


Civil pennant


Royal standards


Flags of the Government


Other flags


Flags of the Military


Flags of the Navy


Flags of the Army

The rank flags are also used by the Air Force and Home Guard.


Flags of the Air Force

The Air Force uses the same rank flags as the Army.


Flags of the Home Guard


Flags of the Coastal Artillery

The now obsolete Coastal artillery of Norway used to have separate rank flags.


Historical flags

These flags are no longer in use, except the merchant flag of 1821–1844, which was also used from 1899 until the present. Note: The Royal Standard of Norway is seen as the official flag of the Old Kingdom of Norway.


Raven Banner (9th - 11th Century)


Kingdom of Norway (872 - 1397)


Kalmar Union (1397 - 1537)


Denmark-Norway (1537 - 1814)


Kingdom of Norway (1814)


Sweden-Norway (1814 - 1905)


Other flags of Sweden-Norway


German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...


Nasjonal Samling and collaborationists


Party Flags


Rikshirden (Hird of the realm)


Unghirden (Youth Hird)

Unghirden was a branch of the youth organisation specialized for boys between 14 and 18. The flags of Unghirden was also used by the Guttehirden (Boys hird).


NS Ungdomsfylking (Youth organisation)

NS Ungdomsfylking was Nasjonal Samling's youth organisation for children and youth from 10 and 18. The flags of Ungdomsfylking was also used by the Gjentehirden (Girls hird) and the Småhirden (Small hird).


Kvinnehirden (Women's hird)

Kvinnehirden was a branch of the NS Kvinneorganisajonen. Despite being named a Hird, they were not officially part of the hird did not serve any military function, therefore their flags lacked the swords in the sun cross.


Kvinneorganisasjon (Women's organisation)

NS Kvinneorganisasjonen was an organisation for women connected to the party.


Hirdmarinen (Hird Navy)

Hirdmarinen was the Hirden's naval branch meant to form the basis for the future norwegian navy under
Quisling ''Quisling'' (, ) is a term used in Scandinavian languages and in English meaning a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for ''traitor''. The word ori ...
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Nasjonal Samling Labour Service

The NS Labour Service (NS Arbeidstjeneste) was one of the Nasjonal Samling party's special organisations. The Labour Service was meant to combat
unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refere ...
in Norway, similar to the
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...
Reich Labour Service The Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Naz ...
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Flags of other Norwegian collaborationists


Political flags


Subnational flags


Ethnic group flags


Officially approved flags


Other proposed flags


Proposed flags of Norway


1814 proposals


1815 proposals


1821 proposals


1836 union flag proposals


Dependent territory proposals


House flags of Norwegian freight companies


See also

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Norwegian heraldry Norwegian heraldry has roots in early medieval times, soon after the use of coat of arms, coats of arms first appeared in continental Europe. Some of the medieval coats of arms are rather simple of design, while others have more naturalistic charge ...
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Coat of arms of Norway The coat of arms of Norway is the arms of dominion of king Harald V of Norway, and as such represents both the monarch and the kingdom (nation and the state). It depicts a standing golden lion on a red background, bearing a golden crown and ax ...
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Ja, vi elsker dette landet "" (; en, "Yes, we love this country") is the Norwegian national anthem. Originally a patriotic song, it came to be commonly regarded as the ''de facto'' national anthem of Norway in the early 20th century, after being used alongside "" since th ...
* Kongesangen *
History of Norway The history of Norway has been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the terrain and the climate of the region. About 10,000 BC, following the retreat inland of the great ice sheets, the earliest inhabitants migrated north into the territor ...


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Norway Army & Air Force Flags Since 1905
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