Most Mexican states do not have an official flag. For these states, a de facto flag is used for civil and state purposes. State flags of Mexico have a 4:7 ratio and typically consist of a white background charged with the state's coat of arms.^[1]

At least nine states have official flags: Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tlaxcala and Yucatán. Except for Jalisco, Tlaxcala and Yucatán, each official flag is simply a white background charged with the state's coat of arms. Coahuila, Colima, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Tamaulipas adopted its coat of arms into a flag.

Two states have provisions in their constitutions explicitly declaring that there shall be no official state flag. These states are Baja California^[2] and Campeche.^[3]

De jure flags

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  Baja California Sur
  (adopted December 31, 2017)^[4]
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  Durango
  (adopted March 9, 2014)^[5]
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  Guanajuato
  (adopted December 20, 2023)^[6]
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  Guerrero
  (adopted October 25, 2019)^[7]
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  Jalisco
  (adopted February 22, 2007)^[8]
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  Querétaro
  (adopted September 22, 2015)^[9]
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  Quintana Roo
  (adopted January 1, 2016)^[10]
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  Tlaxcala
  (adopted October 30, 2011)^[11]
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  Yucatán
  (adopted September 13, 2023)^[12]

De jure coat of arms in a flag

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  Coahuila
  (adopted December 27, 2013)^[13][14]

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  Colima
  (adopted February 24, 2018)^[15]
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  Oaxaca
  (adopted March 12, 2020)^[16]
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  Tabasco
  (adopted February 19, 2020)^[17]
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  Tamaulipas
  (adopted December 15, 2011)^[18]

De facto flags

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  Aguascalientes^[19]
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  Baja California^[20]
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  Campeche^[21]
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  Chiapas^[22]
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  Hidalgo^[23]
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  Mexico^[24]
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  Mexico City
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  Michoacán de Ocampo^[25]
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  Morelos^[26]
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  Nayarit
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  Nuevo León^[27]
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  San Luis Potosi
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  Puebla
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  Sinaloa
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  Sonora
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  Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave^[28]
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  Zacatecas

De facto flags with special designs

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  The zapatista flag for an independent Chiapas, this flag is wildly controversial because of the Chiapas conflict.
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  Unofficial Flag of Chihuahua, a civil flag used by students and people in Chihuahua City, it's created by Daniel Martínez Miranda in 2009.^[29]
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  A black and white variant of the Mexico City flag, with other variants existing. It is used more often than the standard color Mexico City coat of arms on a white field.
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  A variant flag of Colima with 13 stars and big red star on yellow-white bars, it's an unofficial civil flag .^[30]
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  Unofficial Flag of Nuevo León, a civil flag used by students in Monterrey, it's a variant from the Republic of the Rio Grande.^[31][32]
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  Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, it is just like the standard coat of arms in a white field flag, but with green and red corners, this is the official flag of the state's government, but an unofficial flag of the state itself.^[33]

Historical

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  Nueva Galicia (1531)
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  Coahuila y Tejas (1836)^[34]
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  Soconusco (1843)
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  Republic of the Rio Grande (1840)
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  Republic of Yucatán (1841–1848)^[35]
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  Republic of Baja California (1853)
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  Republic of Sonora (1853–1854)
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  Republic of Sonora (1852/1854)
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  Yucatán (unofficially until 1989),^[36] used today as the unofficial flag of Mérida
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  Jalisco (1972, unofficially from 1973–1998)
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  Jalisco (unofficially from 1998–2008)^[37]
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  Tlaxcala (unofficially from 1998–2016)^[38]
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  Jalisco (unofficially from 2008–2011)^[39]
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  Jalisco (2011–2013)^[40]
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  Quintana Roo (2013–2016)^[41]
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  Yucatán (unofficially from 1989-2023)

Gallery

See also

• List of Mexican flags
• Flag of Jalisco
• Flag of Tlaxcala

References