State flag

In vexillology, a state flag is either a flag of the government of a sovereign state, or the flag of an individual federated state subnational administrative division.

Flag of a federated state subnational entity

In Australia, Brazil, the United States, together with some other federalized countries, the term state flag can pull in a different usage, as it frequently talked to an official flag of any of the individual states or territorial subdivisions that make up the nation.

To avoid confusion with the number one meaning of the term, however, such a flag would be more exactly planned to as "the flag of the state of X", rather than "the state flag of X". For this usage, see also: