Castles On Flags Guide

Today we have a fantastic guide created by the Facebook page called Civixplorer that shows a collection of some of the top flags from around the world with castles on them for you to check out. View this design to learn about castle flags which generally symbolise strength, protection and strategic heritage with the area name and country for each one.

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And here we have some decent pictures of the top 20 flags with castles in the guide as well as a little bit of information about them or the places they are from with links to where you can find more.

Flag of Dublin

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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains. (More info)

Flag of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. (More info)

Flag of Hamburg

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The civil flag of Hamburg shows a white castle with three towers on red background, which is used as a civil flag and as a state flag for most purposes. (More info)

Flag of Bergen

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Bergen is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. (More info)

Flag of the Kingdom of Castile

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The Kingdom of Castile was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of León. (More info)

Flag of Mallorca

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Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. (More info)

Flag of Duisburg

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Duisburg is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr rivers in the centre of the Rhine-Ruhr Region. (More info)

Flag of Wolfsburg

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Wolfsburg is the fifth-largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller 75 kilometres (47 mi) east of Hanover and 230 kilometres (143 mi) west of Berlin. (More info)

Flag of Porto

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Porto, also known in English as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. (More info)

Flag of Gibraltar

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The flag of Gibraltar is an elongated banner of arms based on the coat of arms of Gibraltar, granted by Royal Warrant from Queen Isabella I of Castile on 10 July 1502. (More info)

Flag of Merbes-le-Château

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Merbes-le-Château is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Merbes-le-Château had a total population of 4,093. (More info)

Flag of Drenthe

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The flag of Drenthe is the official flag of the Dutch province of Drenthe and was adopted on 19 February 1947. This flag was designed by Gerlof Auke Bontekoe. The traditional Saxon colours of red and white form the basis of the design. (More info)

Flag of Mexico City (Not official)

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Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico, as well as the most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the world. (More info)

Flag of Maribor

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Maribor; also known by other historical names is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. (More info)

Flag of Belgrade

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Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. (More info)

Flag of Zhytomyr

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Zhytomyr is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Zhytomyr Oblast, as well as the administrative centre of the surrounding Zhytomyr urban hromada and Zhytomyr Raion. (More info)

Flag of Tlaxcala

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The flag of Tlaxcala was adopted in 2016. It is coloured red and white and bears the State Emblem in the centre. This flag was designed by Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin in 1996.  (More info)

Flag of Fortaleza

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Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city and surpassed Salvador in a 2024 census with a population of slightly over 2.5 million. (More info)

Flag of Kaliningrad Oblast

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Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave on the Baltic Sea within the historical Baltic region of Prussia, surrounded by Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. (More info)

Flag of Makhachkala

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Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia. (More info)