List of Malaysian flags

This is a list of flags used in Malaysia, both currently and historically.

Administrative divisions

States

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1871 onwards	Flag of the state of Johor	A blue field with an arranged crescent and five-pointed stars in a red canton.
	1912 onwards	Flag of the state of Kedah	A red field with the state coat of arms in the canton.
	1923 onwards	Flag of the state of Kelantan	A red field defaced with a white crescent and star and two white kris and spears.
	1957 onwards	Flag of the state of Malacca	Two equal bands of red and white, with a crescent and five-pointed star in a blue canton.
	1895 onwards	Flag of the state of Negeri Sembilan	A yellow field with two diagonal bands of red and black in the canton.
	1903 onwards	Flag of the state of Pahang	Two equal horizontal bands of white and black.
	1965 onwards	Flag of the state of Penang	A blue, white and yellow vertical tri-colour defaced with a betel nut tree.
	1879 onwards	Flag of the state of Perak	A white, yellow and black horizontal tri-colour.
	1870 onwards	Flag of the state of Perlis	Two equal horizontal bands of yellow and blue.
	1988 onwards	Flag of the state of Sabah	A blue, white, and red tri-colour, with the silhouette of Mount Kinabalu on a light blue canton.
	1988 onwards	Flag of the state of Sarawak	A yellow field with two diagonal bands of red and black, defaced with a nine-pointed star.
	1965 onwards	Flag of the state of Selangor	Red and yellow quartered, with a white crescent and five-pointed stars in the canton.
	1953 onwards	Flag of the state of Terengganu	A black field defaced with a white crescent and five-pointed star, with white at the edge.

Federal territories

A common flag for the three federal territories was adopted by the [Ministry of the Federal Territory (Malaysia)|Federal Territories (Malaysia)|Ministry of the Federal Territories] on 20 August 2006. The flag is to be used and flown on matters and ceremonies that involve all the federal territories as a whole. An example is in national sporting events; the unified contingent of the territories would be under this common flag. However, the usage of the individual territorial flags would be given preference in events relating to individual territories.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2006 onwards	Flag of the Federal Territories	Three equal horizontal bands of yellow, blue, and red with the Malaysian coat of arms in the blue band.
	1990 onwards	Flag of Kuala Lumpur	Three equal bands of white, blue and white with three equal horizontal stripes of red on both white bands. There is a yellow crescent and yellow fourteen-pointed stars on the left within the blue band. Before 2006, this flag was used to represent the entire Federal Territories.
	1992 onwards	Flag of Labuan	Three equal horizontal bands of red, white, and blue, there is a yellow crescent and yellow fourteen-pointed stars in the white band.
	2001 onwards	Flag of Putrajaya	Three vertical bands of blue, yellow, and blue with the Malaysian coat of arms in the yellow band.

Order of precedence

Per government protocol, if a display contains the Jalur Gemilang and all the state flags of Malaysia:

The Jalur Gemilang shall take precedence before the state flags;
The state flags shall be ordered by the date the state's incumbent ruler takes the throne;
The Federal Territory flag comes last

State

Current ruler

Taken office

Terengganu

City, district, provincial and municipal

Some localities have their own flags, whether on the level of district, city, or even traditional localities. Some of them do not represent the locality, but rather the authority that governs the locality such as district councils.
For flags of districts, towns, and cities in Malaysia, look for the article for each state's flag where said location is in. Below is a gallery of the flags of some Malaysian localities.

Political flags

University flags

Flag dates published references

on worldstatesmen.org