4chan/Flags

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Every country flag on 4chan. Note that this image includes England, Scotland, and Wales. It also includes the Unknown flag.

Five boards on 4chan currently have flags. Four of them have country flags, which display the country you're posting from (or the location of your VPN or proxy if you are using one.) Flags are used on 4chan as a method of pseudo-identification.

Country Flags

Anons reacting to a rare flag sighting

Country flags, or geoflags, display the country of the IP address that was used to submit a post. This flag is displayed to the right of a poster's name, or to the right of their ID, depending on the board. There are around 254 countries that can appear. During certain sporting events, /sp/ gains specific flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. These flags can very rarely be found on /pol/ and /bant/ if a thread is moved from /sp/. Outside of these events, posting from one of those countries would normally display a Union Jack labelled United Kingdom.

Unknown Flag

Xx.gif "Unknown" is a relatively common flag on 4chan. It appears when a thread is moved from a board without flags to a board with them, as on flag-boards ever post must have one. Its ID is XX.

Rare Flags

Ditto

Certain flags are more common to find than others. Countries with very low populations, or limited access to the Internet can be very rare to come across while browsing 4chan. These are often referred to as rare flags, and are pointed out by many when they are sighted.

Retired Flags

There are various flags that have been retired, and now will no longer appear on posts from their previous IP ranges. Not much is known about them; we can only infer from the archives that they have been retired due to an extremely long time since the last post from that country.

Country ID Last Seen Total Posts Flag Notes
Unknown (Anonymous Proxy) A1 - - Ad.gif
Unknown (Satellite Provider) A2 - - Ad.gif
Netherlands Antilles AN 13 June 2017 24 An.gif to be written
Asia/Pacific Region AP - - Ad.gif Would say "Unknown" when hovered over but redirect to ap.gif when clicked on.
Serbia and Montenegro CS n/a 0 Cs.gif This flag is still on 4chan's servers despite the country dissolving in 2006.
Europe EU - - Eu.png Not to be confused with the memeflag
Other O1 n/a 0 ? On the drop-down on 4plebs. Not sure if this was ever even on 4chan. Could have been one of the anomalous flags.

Outdated Flags

Over the years some flags have been updated.

Country ID Old Flag New Flag Notes
Antarctica AQ Old-an.gif Aq.gif
Brunei BN Old-bn.gif Bn.gif This flag was posted on /pol/ with the filename "Brunei__Saturated_Glitch_.gif" which implies the saturation was applied by accident
Libya (prev. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) LY Libya.gif Ly.gif
Montenegro MM Old-Me.gif Me.gif
Uzbekistan UZ Old-Uz.gif Uz.gif
Holy See VA Va.gif New-Va.gif
Kosovo XK Ad.gif Xk.gif Andorra was used as a placeholder until Kosovo's flag was added

Anomalous Flags

These flags are incredibly rare and were probably only ever used by 4chan staff.

Country ID Flag Notes
Bhutan Vaporwave ? Bhutan Vaporwave Limited Edition.gif "posted on /int/ in 2011"[1]
Easter Egg/Senpai ? ? Possibly fam.gif?
Portoia ? Portoia.gif "posted once on early /sp/ with zalgo text before being deleted"[1]

Board Flags

Board flags, previously troll flags, are colloquially referred to as meme flags by most posters. These flags are not determined by poster location, and instead can be chosen from a drop-down menu underneath the posting field.

Current board flags on /pol/

The current board flags on /pol/.
Display Name Drop-down Name ID Date Added Icon
Anarcho-Capitalist - AC 13 June 2017 Ac.png
Anarchist - AN 13 June 2017 An.png
Black Lives Matter Black Nationalist BL 13 June 2017 Bl.png
Confederate - CF 13 June 2017 Cf.png
Commie Communist CM 13 June 2017 Cm.png
Catalonia - CT 27 October 2017[2] Ct.png
Democrat - DM 13 June 2017 Dm.png
European - EU 13 June 2017 Eu.png
Fascist - FC 13 June 2017 Fc.png
Gadsden - GN 13 June 2017 Gn.png
LGBT Gay GY 13 June 2017 Gy.png
Jihadi - JH 13 June 2017 Jh.png
Kekistani - KN 13 June 2017 Kn.png
Muslim - MF 13 June 2017 Mf.png
National Bolshevik - NB 13 June 2017 Nb.png
NATO - NT 19 May 2022 Nt.png
Nazi - NZ 13 June 2017 Nz.png
Hippie - PC 13 June 2017 Pc.png
Pirate - PR 13 June 2017 Pr.png
Republican - RE 13 June 2017 Re.png
Task Force Z - MZ 19 May 2022 Mz.png
DEUS VULT Templar TM 13 June 2017 Tm.png
Tree Hugger - TR 13 June 2017 Tr.png
United Nations - UN 13 June 2017 Un.png
White Supremacist - WP 13 June 2017 Wp.png

/pol/ Harbor

-memeflags only (list them below)

-moot fucks with /pol/, removes them

-adds geoflags and IDs

anomalous flags

-vaporwave bhutan

-easter egg flag

-brotherhood of nod

-Portoia (need to research)

/mlp/ pony flags

The current board flags on /mlp/.

-board town hall feb 2021

-anon proposes flags

-twimod agrees

-board designs flags for a couple weeks

-eventually 80 get added

-too many to list

/lgbt/ pride month flags

The board flags that were on /lgbt/ during June 2022.

-/lgbt/ got flags for pride month (June) 2022

-todo: crop and label them

-list them